History / Any apologies about Sikorski's 'murder'? [95]


Are you gentlemen that niave, or is it hard for you to realize that a superpower (USSR) would negotiate during a wartime conference? Is it that hard for you to believe Eastern Europe would be carved-up, and the US and UK would make consessions in order to keep USSR in the war and an ally?

Add Churchill to the 'could not face up to Stalin' crew.

Furthermore Churchill, like Roosevelt, knew the Soviets committed the crime at Katyń - well documented in the Sir O'Malley (UK) Dispatches.

Henry.

History / Any apologies about Sikorski's 'murder'? [95]

Fair enough, but what you see is what you get on the internet; I think you should have said that both Churchill and Roosevelt could not face up to Stalin... that would have been more accurate.

Academics make careers predicated on any one of the Big Three Conferences; I believe there were over twenty in all. It was all about winning over the axis, and shaping the post-war world; obviously consessions were made by USSR, UK and USA in these conferences. It is easy to take a revisionist viewpoint and second guess other's decisions, demands and disillusionment.

History / German Russian aliance durring WWII - Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact [7]

Prince,

I am not sure if there is a photo of Molotov after he died, but there is lovely photo of von Ribbentrop after he was hanged by the IMT in '46... maybe you can post that one. Call it "justice".

Henry

History / Any apologies about Sikorski's 'murder'? [95]

Thanks sjam... I did not have the time to pull the appropriate reference.

Henry

News / Lwow - Eaglets Cemetary [7]

I am not familiar with what happened there, can you fill me in... was this World War 1 / Polish-Soviet War of 1918-1921 or WW2? I take it children protected the city?

Henry

History / Russia: Poland responsible for WW II [300]


Dear Barbara, when will the revisionist historians give up on trying to reinvent historical fact?!

Fact: Hitler wanted to level Poland and Russia, and then inhabit those conquered lands with Germans = Germania.

Fact: Poland did not start the second world war, nor did Russia.

Opine: Has the world gone so ignorant that no one can read and use analytics, specifically the Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact of '39?!?! Suddenly, we should go back to believing Goebbels' propaganda about 4 Polish soldiers taking over a NAZI broadcasting station?!

Conjecture: I know some people here actually believe that [opine] story.

Opine: I have always found the Russians/Soviets blame everyone else (i.e., Katyń), so I am not surprised to hear this; my only surprise is that it is in 2009 and not 1979. 80+ years of oppression in Russia, and those people cling to what they know, and perhaps want. If Russia wants to clear its tablets of history, why not admit to the Lenin/Stalin purges? 55+ million of your own people, Russia, and you still choose to ignore it. What next, America was responsible for the Kursk "mishap"? England was responsible for Chernobyl?

Want/Wish/Will: Sometimes I wish an "Uncle Joe" would come back and clean house in modern Russia.

History / Solidarnosc (Two Decembers) [11]

Papiez,

Try reading The Polish Revolution: Solidarity by Timothy Garton Ash, published by Yale Publishing in 1983; it is a very good book, and he was there during the whole events of 1980 - 1982 and he provides a nice history as well unfolding of events.

Also try, From Solidarity to Martial Law: The Polish Crisis of 1980 - 1981 aa documentary history edited by Andrezej Pacskowski and Malcolm Byrne, published by CEU Press in 2007; also a very good analytical text.

Good luck,

Henry.