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Tuchola in Poland - roots of Katyn? [220]
But by 1939, Poland was way behind Germany. She also didn't have the numerical advantage of Russia.
Numerical advantage didnt matter so much, the border between Russia and Poland was swamps, huge forests and rivers aka it was defensible, it was featured substantial defensive installations and Poland did have a milion men under arms unlike say Finnland.
Competing with one power isn't enough when you're surrounded by enemies - and even with the problem of enemies from within.
And whats your gibberish about? You claimed Poland was overconfident i countered that untill early 30s Poland could reliably steamroll Germany and defend against Russia and when it lost that capability the high command realised it early on so no Poland was not overconfindent, when it
was confident it was based on real factors.
And? Poland shouldn't have relied on allies who frankly were far more interested in themselves than Poland
Thats obvious today, back then it was not obvious at all, especially since the treason was carried out via backstage agreements hidden from Poland.
Bear in mind that history shows guerilla warfare to be terribly effective in terms of causing havoc among the enemy.
Against enemies willing to exterminate your nation? Got any more brilliant ideas to share with us?
The Russians only invaded once it was obvious that Poland had lost, anyway.
Poland lost the moment Germans invaded however the russian invasion shortened the war by a good month, perhaps more.
Strategic sense would have dictated looking at Poland's isolation and realising that the only country that could help Poland was Poland.
How?
I really, really, really cannot figure out why Poland placed so much emphasis on help on two countries that had previously shown mass indifference towards Poland and her independence.
Because that was the only hope Poland had and since it was desperate it went for desperate measures, the only other option would be to attempt and become Hitlers satelite but thats an even more desperate step.
For what it's worth, the whole "western betrayal" thing seems to be a big excuse for Poland's poor performance in WWII.
Again mate please shut the feck up and start asking questions, someone who has no knowledge of history like you really should not talk.
Poland with only 50% manpower and some 10% equipment of France and UK combined faced with war on four fronts against three separate nations fought only a
week shorter than the combined forces of France, UK, Belgium and Netherlands and you call that poor?
The battle of Bzura saw the combined forces of some 650.000 men fighting, there were only four or five larger battles in WW2 all of them in Russia, Poland did not perform well but it was head and shoulders above western militaries (who admittedly performed horribly throught the war).
