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[–]jacques1102 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Germany did invade first and they split poland in half with the soviets.(funny how hitler believed the ussr was run by jews but teamed up with them for a while.)Also i dont know of any historian who thinks the nazi did that.Wouldn't you think that if jews control the history that they would of spread a lie about it and most historians would believe the nazis did the Katyn massacre?Hitler's peace talks were a fucking joke my dude.It basically boiled down to"Give me everything i want or i'll continue the war."As for why the allies didn't declare war on the soviets. The Western alliance with Poland specified a defense against Germany. And public opinion was not clearly against the Soviets. It wasn't understood until the Nuremberg trials whether the Soviets and Germans had a deal or not, it was often believed that the Soviets moved independently and that it was justified. When the Polish Army moved into Ukrainian-majority territory in 1919 and began occupying it, Western mediators tried to get the Poles to go back. Likewise the following year when the Polish Army was fighting the Red Army. There was a proposal put forward by Lord Curzon, the Curzon Line, to end the war at that border line, which closely tracks the ethnic majority line. The Poles ended up pushing the Red Army much further east and annexed much of Belarus and Ukraine. There was a widespread view that Poland shouldn't have been occupying the land east of the Curzon Line, and when the Soviets took it back in 1939 it wasn't universally considered an affront. The Bialystok region is the only part of Poland that the Soviets occupied in 1939 that was west of the Curzon Line and the only part that was majority Polish, and Bialystok was returned to Poland in 1945.