[RussianBoor]

Great point!

Guys, do we really need to answer these obvious provocations? Remember the fable about the Elephant and the Pug?

For those who do not know may refresh their memory here

Have a nice day and let our Polish friend do something more useful that to revise history.

For our Polish friends (God save me from such friends and I will somehow manage my foes :)) I only say that you have grabbed much land that were not yours in 1600 and around. Mongols helped you, you always were too weak to grab anything by yourself (again remember Yalta and Silesia and the role of the USSR :)). Let us not forget that as early as in 1380, the staunchest ally of Khan Mamai against Russians in the battle on the Kulikovo field was Polish king Vladislaus II. That's to refresh out Polish friends' memory who think that Russia had treacherously attacked them in 18th century. I even do not speak of what Polish were doing in the forests near Kostroma in 1612.

Now you at last have the borders that, in view of such a history, one would consider highly satisfactory. You have these borders because Soviet Union defeated Germany and Germany (fortunately for you) does not request you to give its former territories back. Speaking about Koenigsberg please do not forget about Western Prussia and to whom it belonged before the WWII. We Russians will gladly give back Koenigsberg to Germany when you Polish do the same with all your Baltic coast and Western territories including Silesia and Stettin. If you are not prepared to do that, I suggest that you shut up and entertain your dreams of getting back the lands that you picked after Mongols elsewhere. Thanks.

[RussianBoor]

Basically, now I understand a little bit better why Great Powers decided to bother with partitions of Poland. It seems these guys could not be reasonable even at that times and the only thing they were able to understand was brutal force. I wish Ekaterina the Great would not participate in this affair though. Polish uprising of 1830 did a lot to turn Nikolaus I into authoritarian emperor and dashed all hopes of reforms in Russia. We never had anything but trouble from Poland. Fortunately, except Kaliningrad/Koenigsberg, we do not have common borders and Poles are not our problem now.

[twinself]

We Russians will gladly give back Koenigsberg to Germany when you Polish do the same with all your Baltic coast and Western territories including Silesia and Stettin.

Really? Great!!! But you first. Then we, after you. We don't like to have a friend behind our back (September 1939, you know).

[jb6]

Danzig anyone?