As all year propaganda media inspired by the alleged historical policy, the emphasis on politics, empathizes us with tearful accounts of memorial sites, where he gives windy speeches full of slogans and spells, and reflections on “Russian imperialism”, For a long time September 17 even seems to cover September 1, and the war in Ukraine gave this trend a fresh impetus. past becomes just an chance to practice modern politics.
Comparing in and on September 17 is of course a historical fraud, due to the fact that the number of Polish soldiers killed in the fight against Germany is 66,000 and in clashes with the Soviets (despite the order of Rydz “Do not fight the Soviets”) – it is simply a government of magnitude up to 3,000, although these data seem exaggerated. I have already left out the notorious inflation of the number of Poles deported from 1940 to 1941, and more precisely Polish citizens (according to fresh investigation by historians from Białystok, almost half of those deported were Ukrainians, Belarusians and Jews), which was in itself terrible, but multiplying the number exported respective times (from a actual number of about 300,000 to 1.5 million or even 2 million) is average propaganda.
But there is another side to these celebrations and narratives related to it. All Polish celebrations on 17 September are held in a fewer localities in the present Poland, where the russian army has arrived. They do not take place in the training of Ukraine, especially Belarus and Lithuania. Why? And it does not say that Russia is not the beneficiary of the Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact in the long term. We seem to forget in the hurra patriotic bloating that The beneficiaries of the Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact were: Lithuania, Belarus and Ukraine. There is no sound of crocodile tears being shed with us in these countries – in Belarus and Ukraine on September 17 are "days of unification", and Lithuanians sit quietly, without Ribbentrop and Molotov they would never get Vilnius, and so they had it in 1940 – from the Soviets!
Russia present has neither the 5 lands that the USSR occupied in 1939 – these lands have our “strategic partners”It’s okay. ” Yes, they complain about the panic of the NKVD, but to condemn the territorial consequences of September 17 – that is no longer. We've been quiet about this for years, due to the fact that it doesn't fit into the hysterically anti-Russian envelope of this anniversary. The problem on September 17 is that practically the full world, including our western allies – accepted these "transformations" of territorial, which was discussed by the secret protocol of the German-Soviet pact.
Winston Churchill He was even delighted with the fresh border line, as it gave a chance for a conflict between Germany and Russia. According to the latest research, the British gave Moscow the impression that they accept the territorial conquests of the USSR, and the British guarantees for Poland only concern the Polish-German border. All secret British intelligence reports from 1939 to 1941 spoke of Russia's rightful business of the lands of the erstwhile Roman Empire! The edges were lost already in 1939, there was no chance to keep them, due to the fact that no 1 supported us on this issue.
Besides, the designation of the Risian border by the Western powers in 1923 was only a designation of the facts made, In the opinion of Western politicians, this land did not belong to us. The danger was that future Poland may have been hull again, within the limits of the erstwhile Congressional Kingdom. However, Churchill and Stalin (at the end of 1943) decided differently – Poland was to be moved to the West and get lands after the Germans, after Oder.
I don't realize why we don't talk about it at all. The fact is brutal – against Poland in Kresach all another nationalities occurred according to the Lithuanians, Jews, Ukrainians and Belarusians.. It was a terrible experience, but it is not to be forgotten and focused solely on descriptions of russian crimes.
I have already left out gigantic historical simplifications, trying to convince us that the Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact and 17 September is simply a pre-established plan to invade Poland. Firstly, Moscow was not informed that Germany would hit Poland as shortly as a week after the pact was signed. From the very beginning, i.e. from 3 September, Germany pressed hard on Stalin to start fulfilling the pact's arrangements and to take over "his" part of Poland's territory. However, Moscow waited until September 17. Why? due to the fact that she was waiting for the developments, to see if the West was going to fight, and then she most likely wouldn't take action. It was not until September 15, erstwhile it became certain that the West would not move, and the Germans threatened that if the USSR did not take ‘its own’, it would launch Plan B, or the construction of the Ukrainian state in east Galicia – Stalin issued an order to occupy east Poland. All of this should be subject to a calm historical analysis, not political hysteria.
Anniversaries like this should service not only to pay tribute to the fallen, but besides to reflect more generally, for example, that You can't have 2 enemies at your borders, and that means more powerful than us.Oh, my God! However, there is no reflection – even intelligent people repeat like a mantra a bunch of slogans and formulas that do nothing. This anniversary is slow transformed into a hard to bear mystery of Polish messianism, in which the image of Poland on the cross (Polish messiah of nations) is used, in which 1 can see echoes of romanticist madness from the 19th century. This is not the way to rise a average nation, due to the fact that the larger part of it turns distant from it with disgust, falling into nihilism, and the smaller part lives nothing in malignment.
Jan Engelgard
