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I guess in Churchill's defence, he chose what he saw as the lesser of
two evils, sacrifice Poland to keep Stalin on side to save the British
Isles from invasion by the Nazis, or support Poland risking Stalin's
ire that may jeopardise England and Western European security.

The fear was that Stalin could push all the way to the Atlantic after
defeating Hitler, and the USA didn't want to think about diverting
atom bombs in production earmarked for Japan for an attack on Soviet
forces in Western Europe.

After all The Soviet Union was before WW2 an aggressive power that had
just attacked Finland and absorbed half of Poland and the Baltic
states, and Yalta was only five years after that. Recall Stalin had
believed that Hitler would only fight on the Western front, and hoped
that both Hitler and Western Europe would exhaust themselves like in
WW1 so that he could intervene and "liberate" Western Europe,
believing the Eastern front was secured by the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact

At least the BBC can produce films that criticise Chruchill's and the
West's role, unlike in Putin's Russia where they are drafting laws to
criminalise criticism of Stalin and the Soviet Union's role in the
war.

Martin

On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 6:50 AM, Christian Suciu
<christiansuciu@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I caught some of it last night on TV. Yes, it's very interesting - Western
> betrayal, Churchill's broken promise(s), interviews with Polish WWII
> veterans, dramatizations of interrogations, showing how the Katyn testimony
> at Nurenberg was a fraud, mention of how the British excluded only the Poles
> from their victory parade so as not to anger the Soviets, Molotov's troubles
> with Stalin, the purge of the pre-war Polish Communists, etc.
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