Posted on 08/24/2025 8:02:46 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
On the anniversary of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, Polish President Karol Nawrocki drew parallels between past and present-day aggression in a message posted on social media. In his statement, he referred to “unresolved injustices” and “sick dreams of an empire.”
“Eighty-six years ago, Stalin and Hitler signed the Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact—an agreement that paved the way for World War II and claimed the lives of millions around the world. Poland was the first victim of German, and later Soviet, aggression,” Nawrocki wrote on Saturday, August 23rd. He continued: “Germany has still not paid its historical debts, while imperialist sentiments have reawakened in Russia. The world must learn from these facts and prevent sick imperial ambitions from claiming more lives.”
Signed on August 23, 1939, just days before Germany’s invasion of Poland, the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact was a non-aggression treaty between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. Its secret protocol divided Eastern Europe into spheres of influence between Berlin and Moscow, roughly along the Narew, Vistula, and San rivers. Often referred to as the ‘Fourth Partition of Poland,’ the pact sealed the fate of the Polish Republic.
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Nice try. I didn't say that. It's the "you're saying that" ploy tried too often these days. So BBC, if not NYT.
I will say, on a size scale, the Kellogg-Briand is way larger in scope while the Piłsudski-Hitler Pact was far less impactful. Additionally the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact was abrogated in the war, making the USSR among those "allies" of which we used to speak, allies who then became opponents and now sort-of enemies -- except that President Trump just met in Alaska with an 'enemy.'
Maybe because the youngest German WW2 veterans are in their 90s?
They were just 12 years old in 1945.
The US government should nuked the Kremlin sometime in the brief 4 year period before they acquired atomic bombs. Repeat as necessary. Would have saved countless lives and troubles.
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