Posted on 11/06/2014 7:05:26 PM PST by Olog-hai
Vladimir Putin has said there was nothing bad about the Nazi-Soviet Pact, the non-aggression treaty which led to the carve-up of Poland at the outset of the Second World War, suggesting Britain and France were to blame for Adolf Hitler's march into Europe. [ ]
Mr. Putin said that Western historians today try to hush up the 1938 Munich Agreement, in which France and Britainled by Neville Chamberlain, the prime ministerappeased Adolf Hitler by acquiescing to his occupation of Czechoslovakias Sudetenland. [ ]
Mr. Putin appeared to think Moscows own agreement with Hitlerthe 1939 Nazi-Soviet or Molotov-Ribbentrop Pactwas fine, however. Serious research must show that those were the foreign policy methods then, he said, adding: "The Soviet Union signed a non-aggression treaty with Germany. People say: Ach, thats bad. But whats bad about that if the Soviet Union didnt want to fight, whats bad about it?
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Jeepers, I didn't think that our pro-Russian FReepers would descend to that level of imbecility.
Historical fact.
And you know it, too.
No, that makes no sense. Especially in light of the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact itself.
Oh, BTW: many of the former Soviet countries are not free today, being ruled by dictators friendly to Moscow. Putin already has a new version of the USSR on the world scene, called the Eurasian Union. The European Union is Germany’s current empire too. How did things regress back to zero from the end of WWII so quickly?
translation: I’ll take half of Poland any damned time I feel like it.
Good post. The “Islamic version of Nazism” is currently what we have been fighting in the Middle East.
The Pact delayed the conflict between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union by more than a year and a half.
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