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A history lesson.... from Mike Walker

All, Just so we do not lose sight of dynamics that led to this war here is a bit of a contrarian view. On this date seventy years ago approximately 60 Nazi divisions stormed across the border of Poland. They did so with the assurance of the Communist regime in Russia who had signed a non-aggression pact with the Nazi's a few weeks earlier. What has never been consistently reported were secret sections of the pact in which the Nazi's were to be given a free hand in taking western and most of central Poland and the Communist Russians were to be given eastern Poland as well as the three Baltic states of Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia. Thus on 17 September 1939 about 33 Communist Russian divisions reinforced the 60 Nazi divisions by attacking Poland in the east in accordance with the Nazi-Soviet pact. This Soviet treachery has always been downplayed in West. During the war it was brushed aside as by 1941, the year the United States entered the conflict, the Communists and the Nazis were at war with each other making the Soviets our de facto ally. After the war the truth of the events in the Summer of 1939 were drowned out in Cold War rhetoric. Yet, with both those events now in the past, it can be said with a great degree of certainly that had Communist Russia not allied themselves politically and militarily with the Nazis in 1939, a war in Europe would never have begun seventy years ago today. The point is that Hitler could not have done it on his own contrary to what many believe. He needed the support of Russia before he could engulf the world in war. Perhaps it is tragically just that the two nations responsible for the war in Europe suffered the greatest for their villany. Semper Fi, Mike