Posted on 03/05/2022 7:50:02 AM PST by CondoleezzaProtege
Russia's Vladimir Putin has criticized a recent European resolution assigning some blame to the Soviet Union in the outbreak of World War II.
Putin told soldiers that Allied policies of appeasement before the war broke out, for instance tolerating Germany's annexation of Czechoslovakia in 1938, were also to blame for the conflict and for the communist Soviet Union's decision to seek a deal with fascist Germany.
But he reserved particular criticism for Poland, alleging in particular that Poland's ambassador to Germany at the time was a Nazi sympathizer. "Essentially they colluded with Hitler. This is clear from documents, archival documents," Putin said…citing what he claimed were excerpts from the diary of Poland's ambassador, that the diplomat had promised to erect a statue in Hitler's honor to thank Germany for removing Jews from the country.
"A bastard, an anti-Semitic pig, you cannot put it any other way," Putin said.
This follows Poland expressing "concern and disbelief" over the weekend at similar comments from Putin on the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact.
The topic is immensely sensitive in Russia and Poland alike. Russia often feels its contributions in World War II, accounting for well over half of Germany's military losses at a cost of almost 30 million Soviet lives, are underplayed or marginalized by other Allied powers. Putin said on Tuesday that the European Parliament's resolution was trying to eradicate the memory of the Soviet contribution to Allied victory.
"It is people like these who negotiated with Hitler — it is people like that who today are tearing down monuments to the liberating warriors, the Red Army soldiers who freed Europe and the European people from the Nazis…”
Poland, meanwhile, sees itself as betrayed on almost all sides at both the start and then the end of the war…
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“Roll into Poland.”
Yeah, right. After getting chewed up but good by a ragtag Ukrainian Army sporting no tanks more modern than a T-80 right next door, the invincible Russkies will just roll into a Poland that has 1,000 tanks (including a LOT more modern, and Western, ones than Ukraine had/has), plus a capable air force, and which has been training for just such an invasion for decades. Oh, and the Poles are 500+ miles to the West of Ukraine, thus putting even more stress on the Russky supply lines that are already a shambles.
“...if Puting rolls up Ukraine by Spring...” - yeah, well, if your grandmother had balls, she’d be your grandfather.
My crystal ball is still in the shop, but I’m glad yours is working. Got next weeks lottery numbers while you are at it?
Jus a couple weeks ago prognosticators were saying Putin would never send troops in and this was all saber rattling. And here we are...
No crystal ball is needed to see that the Russian Army is not performing up to expectations. Given that, the odds of them even trying to go into NATO-member Poland at some point in the near future are somewhere between slim and none.
Now, if the Poles supply Mig-29s to Ukraine, that’ll change the calculus...but I will go out on a limb and say that the Russians will limit their response to bombing a few Polish airbases - a wholesale invasion is pretty much a guarantee that the entirety of NATO gets involved, and our combat capabilities are rather better than those of Ukraine.
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