Molotov gave the impression of being "pro-German", which he might in fact have been. Fact remains though, he was wary of, if not intimidated slightly, by Hitler:-)
I didn't write he was pro-German, I don't know whether he was "in fact" pro-German or not. I wrote that he was a long-lasting supporter of the agreement with Germans and probably that's why Stalin dismissed Maxim Litvinov from the position of the Commissar for Foreign Affairs (since Litvinov was rather a supporter of alliance with Great Britian and France) and appointed Molotov in 1939.
Whether Molotov was wary or intimidated by Hitler that I do not know, maybe he was pis$ing his pants for all I care - I have no idea and I don't know how does this matter and why we're even discussing this man. In the end it was Hitler and Stalin who decided about the content of the pact and about signing it, not Molotov.
As far as Germany "courting" Poland, hardly a whirlwind courtship, if any!LOL
Well, it was significant enough for Russians I discussed with or so they claimed :)
The relationship was scarcely equal
I didn't write it was equal, I wouldn't even say there was any "relationship" and that was my point - Nazi Germany was courting Poland but Poland refused to go along with it.
Germany merely looked upon Poland as fodder for the German Reich, as a nation populated by ignorant, drunken peasants (whom Hitler even referred to as "Untermenschen"), there if only to do Hitler's bidding!
And you think that German Reich looked upon the Soviet Union in a different way? lol Of course, the Soviet Union mattered far more militarily and politically than Poland, there's no doubt about it, but Hitler and his ideology regarded
all Slavs as subhumans.
Have you heard about the Nazi Generalplan Ost? According to this plan all Jews were to be exterminated along with majority of Slavs (the rest would be turned into slaves of the Reich). Russians were to be entirely exterminated by stopping the birth rate of the Russian population and 3-4,8 mln of Poles were to be left alive as slave workforce. The Nazi Germany was supposed to rule from Portugal to the Ural Mountains.
I wouldn't call it exactly an "equal relationship" but each to their own, I guess :P
Poland was one of numerous former Soviet "satellite" states/republics, used by Moscow for her own ends right up through the fall of Communism in around 1989-90.
Yes, and? I don't understand what's your point, Lyzko, and why we're even discussing this.
As I wrote, Poland didn't "go to the altar" with neither Nazi Germany nor Soviet Union. I think your comparison with a bridesmaid isn't correct - Poland wasn't even present at the wedding. Poland was kidnapped and gang raped during Nazi Germany's and Soviet Union's wedding night. After the World War II Poland was forced into Soviet Union's "harem" - it didn't end up there by its own free will either.
That was my point.