Posted on 09/30/2015 7:22:59 PM PDT by lbryce
Seventy-five years ago today, Red Army troops smashed into Poland. Masters of deception and propaganda, they encouraged locals to believe that they were coming to join the battle against Hitler, who had invaded two weeks’ earlier. But, within a day, the true nature of the Nazi-Soviet collaboration was exposed.
The two armies met at the town of Brest, where the 1918 peace treaty between the Kaiser’s government and Lenin’s revolutionary state had been signed. Soldiers fraternised, exchanging food and tobacco – pre-rolled German cigarettes contrasting favourably against rough Russian papirosi. A joint military parade was staged, the Wehrmacht’s field grey uniforms alongside the olive green of the shoddier Soviets. The two generals, Guderian and Krivoshein, had a slap-up lunch and, as they bade each other farewell, the Soviet commander invited German reporters to visit him in Moscow “after the victory over capitalist Albion”. These events are keenly remembered in the nations that were victims of the Molotov-Ribbentrop treaty: Romania, Finland and, most of all, Poland and the Baltic States. But they don’t occupy anything like the place in our collective memory of the war that they deserve. Almost everyone in Britain knows that the Second World War started when Hitler sent his panzers into Poland. Stalin’s mirror invasion 16 days later, while not exactly forgotten, is not nearly so central in our narrative. Which is, if you think about it, very odd. The Nazi-Soviet Pact lasted for 22 months – a third of the duration of the entire conflict. We remember, with pride, that we stood alone against Hitler.
But in reality, our fathers’ isolation – and commensurate heroism – was even greater than this suggests.
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The US government was all-in to deceive the American people into propping up Stalin (who returned the favor by maintaining neutrality with Japan until the closing weeks of the war). While Americans died in the Pacific, the war that started over Poland’s independence ended with them enslaved for another half a century. Meanwhile, our government & media continued to spew films like “The Guns of Navarone”, “Sahara” and “For Whom the Bell Tolls” equating Franco’s fight against communism in Spain with the Nazis trampling of democracy.
WWII was a hoax perpetrated on the American public that directly led to our subsequent wars in Korea & Vietnam.
Meanwhile, stand in front of your Viewscreen, hands on your head, and wait for the Ministry of Truth.
IE .. the Slimes!
We couldn't bomb them back to the stone age in WWII because they were already there!
Times have changed!
Above: Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov signs the Nazi-Soviet Non-aggression Pact while German Foreign Minister Von Ribbentrop and Soviet leader Stalin look on under a portrait of Lenin, August 23, 1939. News of the Pact stunned the world and paved the way for the beginning of World War Two with Hitler assured the Germans would not have to fight a war on two fronts.
http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/timeline/pact.htm
In the bottom picture, I thought at first that Putin was Pierre Trudeau.
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