“”””And besides at that point, for all intents and purposes, Czechoslovakia was no longer a viable nation.””””
That’s 100% true but how do you think Stalin and Hitler viewed Poland?
“”””That was the Nazi justification for invading the neutral Netherlands. “If we don’t take it, the Brits will.””””
Sorry, but it is non-sequitur. We are now arguing the Soviet inaction, not their action.
You are rightfully blaming the Nazi for aggression against Netherlands based on such reasoning. It was a hypocricy because the Brits didn’t attack and if they did the Brits were to blame.
Non-intervention in Warsaw uprising is an act or more accurately non-act of the whole different matter. I am sure you understand what I mean.
You were referring to the eve of the war, not 1944, and that is what my response adressed.
But the whole point is that Russia always saw Poland as merely a satellite..
“Kurica nie ptica, Polsza nie zagranica” - Poland is not abroad for Russia like a chicken is not a bird