This should be put on the National Curriculum, THE TRUTH about Stalin and the Soviet Union, I have long told everyone I can about Soviet duplicity during the war. I also get very annoyed by teachers in particular who seem to refuse to recognise the evils of communism.
The first question arises. We talk all the time about the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. We repeat this after our European colleagues. Question: Was this the only document signed by one of the European countries, then the Soviet Union, with fascist Germany? It turns out that this is not at all the case. I'll just list them with your permission. So, the Declaration on the Non-Use of Force between Germany and Poland. This is, in fact, the so-called Pilsudski-Hitler pact. Signed in 1934. In fact, this is a non-aggression pact. Then - the Anglo-German naval agreement of 1935. Great Britain provided Hitler with the opportunity to have his own military fleet, which was essentially forbidden to him, or reduced to a minimum by the results of the First World War. Then the joint Anglo-German declaration of Chamberlain and Hitler, signed on September 30, 1938, agreed by them on the initiative of Chamberlain. It stated that "the signed Munich agreement, as well as the Anglo-German maritime agreement symbolize ..." and so on, and so on. The creation of a legal framework between the two states continued. That's not all. Franco-German Declaration signed on December 6, 1938 in Paris by the French and German Foreign Ministers Bonn and Ribbentrop. Finally, the agreement between the Republic of Lithuania and the German Reich, signed on March 22, 1939 in Berlin by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania and the same Ribbentop, stating that the Klaipeda Territory will again be reunited with the German Reich. And the Non-Aggression Pact between the German Reich and Latvia of June 7, 1939. Thus, the Treaty between the Soviet Union and Germany was the last in a series of those signed by other European countries, as it were, interested in preserving peace in Europe. At the same time, I would like to note that the Soviet Union agreed to sign this document only after all possibilities were exhausted and all the proposals of the Soviet Union to create a unified security system, an anti-fascist coalition, in fact, in Europe were rejected.
Russians can't accept that you guys started WW2 alongside Germany, but you guys can't change history, both were villains, just one of the villains -Communist Russia- survived by wining the other villain.
If we don't want to forget the past, and if history is a science, we must then also look to the following declarations: - The German Polish non agression pact in 1934 - The Anglo German naval agreement in 1935 - The Anglo German declaration in 1938 - The French German declaration in 1938 - The Lithuanian German declaration in 1939 Why don't you tell more on the above mentioned pacts signed between fascist Germany and the western powers? Tell also about how Poland and Germany divided the territory of Czechoslovakia before WWII? The USSR asked Poland to let their army through Poland to help Czechoslovakia and stop Germany within their borders. Poland refused. These actions of the Western states forced the USSR to sign the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact which is not a tragedy but a victory for diplomacy and the war effort against Germany.
@@alexanderthegreat2986 It would've been more interesting in having a debate also with other historians. I mean history is a very interesting science that should not be discredited.
@@zofiaporadzisz8375 Of course for the Polish imperialists these territories were Polish for centuries. For the Belarussians and Ukrainians this was a Polish occupation. When the Russian empire was crumbling the Poles captured territory behind the Curzon line, which were territories inhabited predominantly by Belarussians and Ukrainians. These were the territories which the USSR took back according to the curzon line. Nevertheless we must not forget that Stalin was so kind to allow Poland receiving a large part of Prussia (which is now Northern Poland) and the eastern part of Germany.
