Posted on 09/23/2023 7:52:16 AM PDT by dynachrome
Once Zelensky has been lynched and his fascist government collapses, all the border countries will rush in to divvy up the remains of the land once known as Ukraine. Thereafter, like Czechoslovakia, or Yugoslavia… only a memory in the history books.
That, and the Polish cavalry charged the tanks on horseback.
You go to war with the army you want, when war comes to you you fight with the army you have.
;O) I saw that one too. A lot of bandwidth could get eaten up on this subject. The jokes that is.
They put on a good act.
It wouldn't surprise me if he got the Mussolini treatment.
The souls of half a million Ukrainian soldiers deserve some retribution.
Poland and Russia ganging up on Ukraine? Strange days we live in.
They remember Wołyń.
There is no historical basis for solidarity between Poles and Ukrainians. Quite the opposite, Ukrainians were oppressed serfs working on Polish estates.
If you want to wind up a Pole of a certain age, there is no more reliable means than quoting the old myth about Polish lancers charging at German panzer divisions in the second world war.
The story feeds a stereotype about Polish men being hopelessly romantic, hopelessly moustachioed idiots who would actually gallop their horses at big steel tanks.
Even this newspaper fell into the trap less than two years ago, when a columnist described the mythical charge as “the most romantic and idiotic act of suicide of modern war”. We had to append a speedy correction admitting that we had “repeated a myth of the second world war, fostered by Nazi propagandists”.
The most likely origin of the legend is a skirmish at the Pomeranian village of Krojanty on the first day of the German invasion, 1 September 1939. Polish lancers, whose units had still not been motorised, did indeed charge a Wehrmacht infantry battalion but were forced to retreat under heavy machine gun fire. By the time German and Italian war correspondents got there, some tanks had arrived and they joined the dots themselves.
The story was used first by the Nazi propaganda machine and then by its Soviet counterpart, to portray Polish officers (who were killed by Stalin en masse the next year) as absurdly careless about the lives of their troops.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/apr/06/myth-of-polish-cavalry-charge
Now that I'm thinking about it Mussolini's old lady got to participate in that event as well.
She was probably a shopper too.
Poland is not threatened by Russia.
Considering that Russia had no luck attacking Ukraine, Russia would be completely impotent against Nato-allied Poland.
That, and saying that Poland is in "Eastern Europe". Big No No!
Poland doesn’t want do that because they know then the next thing that happens, the Germans will be demanding Breslau and Danzig.
Better just to keep things where they are, and not open up that can of worms.
Politics is the mother of strange bedfellows...
Just more like everybody just wants this over and for the killing to end.
Ukrainian, Belarusian, and Lithuanian nobles became polonized over centuries, just as further west Polish, Czech, Croatian, and Slovenian nobles became Germanized or Austrianized. For most of the peasants, the conflict with the nobles as overlords was more important than the ethnic differences that developed later. Many peasants just thought of themselves as “people from here” until ideologues and propagandists gave them national consciousness.
The basis for solidarity now would be being stuck between the Russians and the Germans (the West).
Poland has been threatened by Russia for about 1,000 years. And by Germany on the other side.
I had no reason to not believe the Poles were as brave as the Russian soldiers who strapped explosives to themselves and dove under Nazi tanks at Stalingrad.
Or...
How a soldier who feared he missed the war went on to earn the MoH
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