“Yet Britain and France never declared war on the USSR for the same violation of Poland that Germany perpetrated...
As the old saying goes, “It’s just politics.”
“It’s just politics.”
Sure, but Churchill was smart enough to understand that at the end of the war, Poland ended up a Soviet satellite while all Britain gained was the accelerated loss of its empire - they could never re-assert themselves with people who had watched Britain humbled by the Japanese. All the loss of life, materiel, and damage from the Blitz...