The war in Europe would have then been over and the Polish nation wouild now be a historical footnote with the Polish people exterminated or enslaved.
Is this not what happened anyway in Poland? Polish military I speak to were fighting for a free Poland, not Soviet occupied Poland. 1989 is not that long ago.
preparing for a war that we were in no position logistically to fight. We were under armed and under prepared. If we would have fought the Germans in a land war in 1939 we would have been beaten quickly and decisively.
This quote is about France/ Britain and had they attacked Germany. What I question is what if all three, France, Britain and Poland did all jointly attack, could the world war be avoided?
This is very significant since Hitler had concentrated almost all German military forces in the east, and France had one of the strongest armies in the world. Had France attacked Germany in a serious way as promised, the results could have been very serious, if not disastrous for the Germans.
worldfuturefund.org/wffmaster/reading/history/polandbetrayal.htm
Poland in the postwar period is even a fraction as bad as it was under the Nazis then you seriously need to read more.
This has nothing to do with my family it has everything to do with how the Polish continued to live under communist rule. Remember my family left in 1951, I am referring to the life of the ones left behind. Polish were still being killed and Polish people lived with a new fear of death. Today we can speak to the people that survived this Stalin era and hear first hand accounts about what life was like.
I don't feel we can you compare what Soviet occupied Poland was like after the war with what took place under Nazi's. War was over and yet within "Soviet occupied Poland" each day presented a challange to survive.