Hmmm. Do you think all Poles should be slaughtered? I know you’re sad that Stalin didn’t finish the job.
What a colossally stupid statement. The endless battling over the frontiers of Poland was effectively ended at Yalta by redrawing the colossally of Poland, Germany and the Soviet Union. The non Polish majority areas in the east and se of Poland went back to Russia. Germany lost 30=40% of its eastern territories and these were divided between Poland and Russia. Poland received Silesia with an industrial base only equaled by the Ruhr. The Polish Corridor question was ended for good in this distribution as Poland now had an unobstructed Baltic sea coast and the port of Danzig becomes a Polish city. Populations were exchanged. Germans pushed out of what was to be western Poland, Prussia divided between the two victor states, the majority of Poles resident in the eastern parts of Poland would now populate the former German areas of western Poland. Nothing sacred about the Versailles frontiers of Poland. Poland ended up with a third of its territories with majority non Polish populations. The Polish borders were drawn to push the borders of the new Soviet state back as far as possible. The big Polish footptint was not an index of strength but a guarantee of a weak, oversized ethnically conflicted nation. Stalin was a tyrant and mass murderer to be sure , however, his settlement of the east central European frontiers was and is highly pragmatic, sensible and the most stable division suggested. Those who would wish to dismantle the Helsinki Accords which institutionalized these borders are foolish beyond all measure unless they truly desire another European great war
“Hmmm. Do you think all Poles should be slaughtered?”
Better question to ask the Prime Minister there, as he’s virtually begging Putin to take his country next, and, at the same time, he’s doing the same with Germany, now demanding huge reparations for WW2.