Posted on 02/10/2024 1:02:42 AM PST by canuck_conservative
... The Russian president argued that Poland was to blame for Hitler's decision to invade, claiming the Warsaw "went too far" by balking at the annexation of part of its territory.
Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski suggested in a post to X, formerly Twitter, on Friday that Putin was "paranoid" and called it "shocking" that Carlson "enabled" the Russian president by giving him a platform to spread his false claims and rhetoric.
Sikorski .. also noted that Hitler was joined in invading Poland by the Soviet Union, which was an ally to Nazi Germany for nearly the first two years of the war...
According to a verified translation of Putin's remarks during the Carlson interview, the Russian president claimed that Poland "forced" Hitler to invade by being "uncooperative" with Nazi demands to take territories including Polish city Gdańsk, then known as Danzig.
"[Poland] rejected Hitler's demands," Putin said. "Since [Poland] did not give up the Danzig corridor, the Poles nevertheless forced him. They got carried away and forced Hitler to start the Second World War against them first." ...
Putin's claim that Hitler had "no choice" but to invade Poland is not supported by historical evidence.
According to The National WWII Museum, Hitler set the stage for the invasion by making "it look as if the Poles had provoked the hostilities and the SS obliged by staging numerous false-flag operations and 'Polish provocations' against Germans."
The Russian president's 2022 annexation of parts of Ukraine prompted some to draw parallels with Hitler's actions during the early days of World War II.
Notably, Hitler justified Germany's ambitions to take Gdańsk/Danzig by citing the large number of pro-Nazi German speakers in the city at the time, a similar argument to Putin's claims about Russian speakers in Ukraine's Donbas region....
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Bless your heart!
I always thought the British were hypocrites when it came to Poland - Germany invades Poland, Britain declares war. The Soviets invade Poland, crickets from Britain.
Also when the Soviets invaded and bombed Finland soon after.
The Finnish war was interesting - Mussolini backed the Finns, but when he tried to ship aircraft to them, the Nazis blocked the shipment at the behest of their Soviet allies.
Hitler had a very candid conversation with Finnish Marshall Mannerheim, that was secretly taped.
It’s probably the only audio of Hitler speaking in his normal voice.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WE6mnPmztoQ
Well - Biden is afraid to speak with Putin - someone needs to step up and do it....If the freaking President won’t speak with someone he decided to go to war with - and Biden and company did make that decision since we have zero business in the Ukraine, I’d say Tucker just did what the” President” wouldn’t.
—Tucker just did what the” President” wouldn’t.”
Not even close.
Carlson is a paid shrill attempting to milk it all he can.
Yes, he is very smart, articulate and clever.
But too clever by half.
And it shows.
And yet - Biden won’t open communications with Putin - It’s been almost 2 years and I’m sure Putin was laughing his ass off at the senile imbecile on the other end of the line. I know you ain’t dumb, despite your sobriquet - but you sure are hard-headed. I believe about half of what Putin said because it dealt exactly with what Biden’s doing to change America into Amerika...the way the Left is particularly incensed with the interview says it all...Putin wanted to speak to/at President Trump but the Left would have tried to prosecute Trump if he had the conversation.
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