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To: lizol

What happened to Poland was a tragedy.

The only interesting snippet of history that has been "overlooked" is that Poland did invade and annex land in border countries in the time right before WWII. For instance, Poland invaded Slovakia (then called Czecho-Slovakia) in 1938 and forced Slovakia cede territories to Poland. Same type of thing happened with the Ukraine.


2 posted on 09/01/2004 10:08:14 AM PDT by 2banana (They want to die for Islam and we want to kill them)
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To: 2banana

Wrong!

1) Poland's never invaded Slovakia. You probably meant Zaolzie, which is area around city of Cieszyn - on the Polish - Checholovakian border. In fact - when the Germans entered Chechoslovakia Polish troops took that area over. I'm not proud of it, especially because of the "company" and circumstances in which it happened.
But you should know, that Zaolzie was actually regained by Poland, because it was taken by the Chechoslovakians in 1919-1920, when Poland was fighting the Bolsheviks.

2) I have no idea what you meant writing about Ukraine. Please let me know, so maybe I'll find something new about history of my country.


4 posted on 09/01/2004 10:39:09 AM PDT by lizol
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To: 2banana; r9etb

They don’t attacked Ukrainians but with help of UKRAINIAN troops they fought with Russians and it is big difference. In that time Ukraine cannot be an independent country, as always before, question was who take that land Russia or Poland. Russians where there, it was too dangerous for Poland.When polish troops would give Ukrainians independent country, immediately they would have Russians there and Poland cannot had Russians so close their borders. In Poland Ukrainians were in fact free people, they had the same rights like Poles, in Russia even Russians don’t have too many things to say… Now at last they are independent country and good for them!


12 posted on 09/01/2004 11:15:08 AM PDT by Lukasz (Don’t trust the heart, it wants your blood.)
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