Why Didn't the Allies Declare War on the USSR when it Invaded Poland? (Short Animated Documentary) 

Which it never possessed

There isn't any *Oh wait, that's the jok-*

Well said, Britain is your friend & does have allies, 🇨🇦 Australia 🇦🇺 & New Zealand 🇳🇿, defo

Honestly in this case there wouldn't have been a scenario where Poland wouldn't be occupied. Even if they would have put enormous amount if troops in Poland, they would Just end up weakaning their armies, since Germany could have easily cut them off at Danzig. The polish government probably new this and with as it happened atleast they didn't cease to exist.

@@jahmah519 you all literally left them to die

Churchill methods vs Chamberlain methods

@@TikkiYTLmao So true though

@@TikkiYTGiga Chad Churchill Vs Weak Chamberlain

Satan USA is genocider and criminal in impunity

@@joaobran2712 ok

Ye europe pretty much treated us like shit

Poland: "Will you be by my side?" NKVD: "It is now ouг siде, comaгaде"

Where else would pallbearers be.

@@megalodonek8377 Poland: again? Europe: Always. Now go clean my bri'ish toilet

​@@Unicalnetworksorry, man, but you better not write using cyrilic alphabet

I swear I think that every time I see the title for a video from this channel

I researched this topic for a history paper.

That’s why I think this channel made a smart move in productions shorter videos answering very interesting and often overlooked questions about history, as opposed to the 10 minute summary videos of well-documented topics like he used to do. More videos and more interested viewers.

It's because of the cultural Marxists in the universities causing a nihilist approach to the Gulag Archipelago

If you never asked this question then your education has frankly failed you

Very true but I would hate to see what would have happened if Britain went to war against Germany and the ussr, with the out of date technology and lack of mechanical warfare capabilities from France and just the shier size of the ussr defeat would be inevitable and without the UK fighting the Germans anymore. The Nazis may have actually won the war in Europe and god knows what would have happened if the people of the USSR got to friendly with the Germans. Oh wait, boom invasion, now the whole of Europe is Nazi controlled. So I think the British made the best and only intelligent decision

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More like: France: *raises white flag when Poland gets invaded*

france: we are the super power and we are declaring war at germany .. rommel and his friends : ok why not take a tour in Belgium ،😂

@@NorthCamZ There was an invasion of the saarland. The French saw that it was devoid of troops. Thought it was a trap and fucked off. If France decided to not refight the last war and be tramatised of trench lines they had a straight shot to Berlin cause everything was thrown at Poland and later Czechs.

Nah it’s because friendly fire

Not like what you think.

The invasion of Poland was the whole pretext for declaring war in the first place, though. There was no WW2 prior to this.

Say sike

The Fckn Truth - They didn't help cuz they had Poland deeply in ass and they had no fckn balls. Also They probably thought that Hitler would leave uk and France alone.

It was a meme lol poland had to fight with everyone around it to preserve itself with only france supporting it fron the start. And it was a diplomatic support only, when the polish-ussr war broke out every european govermnet was busy dealing with communists in their own countries like germany where they started a civil war awaiting the red army. Naive was to think hitler would stop but nobody was naive about poland. It is just realism. Extremly sad realism…

Maybe if you want to make a political statement, you should make it.

@@Timmerdetimmerdetim bro why are you trying to get upset about smth it's joke on how Poland gets invaded a lot relax with your keyboard warrioring

@@Czar_Moss There's nothing funny about Poland being invaded and nothing "to love" about it. Maybe we can agree on that at least?

@Tim Joye oh sorry too soon? 83ish years not enough time?

What were they supposed to do?

@@rowmagnvs Honour their part and attack Germany maybe? Instead of just sitting on there for nine month just to get overrun in six weeks.

Paul There were offensive plans and the allied planning board basically got turned upside down when the Soviet Union invaded Poland because it was assumed the Polish army could stand up to Germany for a year

@@haldir3120 Considering how well France and the UK did together in defense of France and fact that the only UK had somewhat up to date air force and an expeditionary force of a limited number, that would not end very well even when looking at Wikipedia numbers may suggest otherwise... French actually somewhat invaded Germany (few km) but they stopped before the German defensive line, again, their army was not built for some coordinated deep penetration operations (lack of radios in their thick but slow poorly designed tanks making some pincers encirclement unrealistic against better-equipped fast German armor which was able to reposition within a week from attacking poorly equipped Poland, limited French logistics for adequate supply chain during the attack, etc.). Neither French WW2 air force was something legends being written about and Germans would fear of... The only possible way of French/UK invasion being sufficiently protected was if the UK would send all its fighter planes to French airfields at the expense of leaving the UK undefended and open for the Nazi medium bomber attacks...

SHREKIN

Pretty much the impact of the Munich Pact

I declare this to be a archive of the message

AznGuy Jr. when you stole that reply

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I wish it was written: " That wasn't very COMRADE of you"

It was defensiv though (*distant war* is only for an agressiv call to arms)

actually france and britain were 432845 ducats in debt

Dishonored Call to Arms Noises

@@thomasfazey5755 The AI don't get dishonoured call to arms though.

@@markhenley3097 It was mp though

@nickys34 Poland was a country for a long time before WWI, until partitions of Poland happened.

Check a map of languages in 1937 poland, the ukrainian and belarussian areas HEAVILY overlaps with what the USSR invaded. This is because the land they conquered back WAS the area poland opportunisitcally took mid civil war

@nickys34 pretty sure Poland existed from the 10th century till 1795, which is before ww1

@OVOD.net 1. Poland did not capitulate by the time soviets invaded. 2. Just like Russian Empire illegally annexed this land from Poland-Lithuania during partitions of Poland. 3. Poland did not ally with Germany, Zaolzie that you're talking about was invaded and annexed by Czechs during polish-soviet war.

@OVOD.net Poland actually never officially capitulated, the government went in exile in the UK, so the ussr invaded Poland.

we should have learned by now, that either we'll be strong enough ourselves, or with very strong REAL ties to our allies, or we'll be doomed AGAIN.

I didn't get it. Wasn't it the second time?

@@ooi97 prussia, austria and russia ganged up on poland in past when it was polish-lithuanian commonwealth 3 times

​@@cristianokiki1486I think all three partitions of Commonwealth should be counted as first time. But later there were Duchy of Warsaw and Kingdom of Poland (Congress Poland), which were semi-autonomous Polish states. Moreover Free City of Cracow and Grand Duchy of Posen (to some extent) may also be counted.

@@kristupas_ they were 3 diferent times and I think not all 3 partutions had all 3 states

Football Stat’66 lol ikr

Rob Waterhouse

Football Stat’66 don’t forget Winston kayword (yeah, yeah, it’s probably spelled wrong)

Izzy?

Spinning 3 Plates

Tu?

@@Cosmic_Potato7 Turkey.

The realpolitik reigns supreme

@@asnekboi7232 I dream of a day when equal rules and the common good prevail over narrow interests. But today is not that day.

@@nikolatasev4948 then you shall dream till the sun consumes the earth

This defines a bruh moment

Poland: "I'm not dead yet"

German anthem: "We are the best" Polish anthem: 'We are not the worst"

There is no “yet” there. This would suggest that poles are awaiting their demise. “Poland is not dead, while we are alive”

2 of the strongest world powers double teaming you without a condom, what else can you expect lol

Wow.

hoi 4 reference was not excepting that

Another reason: Germany formed the Berlin-Moscow Axis

Another reason: Fascists came to power in the US and Brazil invaded all of South America and is now a beligerent super power.

@@lolmanmagee2785 honestly i was there jokes appear everyehere on ww2 videos lol

Operation Pike, it was called. Documents about the plan were captured by the Germans in France and leaked by the Nazi press.

Tell the 300,000 Polish ex-service personnel who were granted UK citizenship in 1946 after the theft of their Polish hmoelands by communism.

@@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684 You mean after refusing helping them on a war they promised to help? Cool

@@gonyx4 Where do you get the idea that "help was refused", when the fact is Britain was UNABLE to help at such short notice? Do you naively believe that countries maintain ruinously expensive standing armies, ready at a moment's notice to spring into action anywhere in the world? Britain and France reacted as quickly as they could to mobilise their armies to the surprise assault on Poland on 1st Sept 1939. The British Royal Navy IMMEDIATELY instigated the "North sea blockade" that had effectively strangled Germany out of WW1. The RAF did not have the range to attack nazi forces in Poland and refused to bomb the German mainland as they did not want to spread the war but contain Germany. Though they did IMMEDIATELY attack German naval units at sea. The British army IMMEDIATELY initiated the transfer of its regular army units to France as the BEF (British Expeditionary Force). By Dec 1939 it had just 3 full strength divisions ready in France. It took till April 1940 for us to assemble 10 full divisions and 3 reserve divisions on the borders of Belgium. Poland had collapsed after 5 weeks. What exactly do you think those 10 British divisions in April 1940 would be able to do against the +140 Wehrmacht divisions then stationed on the western front? The French army, which was by far the largest of the two nations (and indeed in Europe), bungled its own incompetent mobilisation. It conscripted so many of its population that it temporarily crippled its own economy, and had to release countless thousands of soldiers to man her factories again. You seem ignorant of the fact that if it hadn't been for the British & French declaration of war in 1939, regardless of their inability to give meaningful support to Poland in its "hour of need", or if the UK had surrendered in june 1940 after the collapse of France (as the ENTIRE world expected us to) then Poland would have remained under nazi domination for DECADES. Remember that apart from Britain and France (who between them collectively squandered 1.1 million of their own citizen's lives, bankrupted themselves as nations, and ended up losing their empires) absolutely NO ONE ELSE in the so called "international community" raised a finger or cared whether Poland existed or not in 1939. Without the continued opposition of the British empire to nazism from June 1940 onwards, opposition which bankrupted the UK and cost her 460,000 of her citizen's lives, there would have been: NO D-Day and war in the Meditteranean to draw sizeable wehrmacht resources from the war on the Eastern Front. NO strategic bombing of German cities and war industries. NO interdiction of German global sea trade by the Royal Navy. NO massive supply of weapons and war materiel from the west to the USSR, once their former allies nazi Germany had turned on them. NO utterly crucial strategic intelligence courtesy of Britain's (not Poland's before you say it) "ULTRA" program. With the result that the USSR would have collapsed somewhere in 1942/43, leaving the nazis in control of the whole of Europe, and their extermination camps still operating on Polish soil into the 1950s, 60s, or even 70s.

It's kind of hard to fight two front Wars ask Hitler

well it shows that the didnt care about poland (which is obv if you look at what happened after ww2) and simply wanted to quash germany again

It's almost as if it was another global conspiracy to shut down an ideology and economy that didn't have international finance's best interests at heart...

Western Unity the USSR invaded Poland afterwards...

@Western Unity I was going to read it myself when I found out about the backlash against Shirer. I was very disappointed. I still have A World at Arms by Weinberg though, and that was a great read.

That's the reason for Brexit, now I get it, thanks

I forgot how this video is titled, but this is actually true. There's a video from a UK satire show from the 2000s where they laugh about the idea of the UK quitting the EU. And the actor playing the diplomat said: "we joined the EU to destabilize it from within, and then we're going to quit to destabilize it again. Our centuries-old foreign policy of never letting the continent unite." This view is *very* engrained in English society.

NATO is slowly unifying the continent - what will happen then I wonder?

@@mar07in scary guessing game you got in your hands.

@@oliversmith7130 No, brexit was due to stupidity and politicians taking advantage of eurosceptism to make a few pennies for themselves.

lol so true

British empire losses 500,000 casualties. Thats enough help considering the uk and her allies can have peace with the germany but didnt

Actually the opposite Bud Look up operation unthinkable Britain always had the end goal of defeating Germany then moving on too the ussr

Actually its the opposite. Britain started WW2 by defending Poland. UK declined 27 peace appeals from Nazi Germany. Investigate the Rudolf Hess incident. Where he tried to negotiate peace with Britain only to get arrested and killed by them

@@serenityssolace Facts. The Anglos were the main warmongers here. Starting a war they eventually needed Americans to finish for them.

The only part they weren't counting on was France getting its ass kicked in a matter of seconds

@@DiegoDiaz-vm9xx yeah that part wasn't supposed to happen

How did this help the Poles?

@@limes194 Who said it was about the poles?

@@makky6239 well poles are good for holding up a Soviet flag and after the war a lot of poles could be made

That’s why Hitler wanting peace with Britain was doomed to fail. It’s like asking snake to not change colour. Britain would have to change their approach entirely. Germany was strong hard on power but an amateur compared to Britain in divide and rule tactic.

England and france would of got smashed by Germany and Russia

As previously stated in past videos, *French politics* at the time could be summed up as *"...a dumpster fire."*

Yeah, even if France HADN'T fallen in 1940 and knocked out Hitler early on, the Third Republic still would've fallen and gotten replaced by a hopefully more effective government.

@@navilluscire2567 I would call it really the 1st *Nuked Politics* but i remember that the Byzantines and the Romans were a thing so yeah its politics were fucky.

@@navilluscire2567 So much so there were genuine fears of a civil war after France was liberated. It was one reason why the British weren't keen on helping the French resistance too much, they were worried arms given to French militias to defeat the Nazis would be used to kill other French people after they had gone.

Andrew Klang it’s called the Third Reich not the third republic

Same, that would have been a fun video.

This isn't the Worldwar Series

I have dyslexia and I often have little fun things like that. I once read a scifi book that dealt with the genetic slave trade, which I misread as the _geriatric_ slave trade, an economic model I still struggle to conceptualize to this day.

I think I played a video game about this once.

Why would they? The Soviets would probably be the aliens' best customers, if they were diplomatically inclined; they had some of the biggest reserves of raw resources (human and otherwise), but relatively little industry.

He could be walking down the street and I wouldn't know who this man is

@@Abdul54cp i've always found hilariusly dark how the URSS will lose every offensiver war they went and win every defensive war they got.

@@Abdul54cp And its also the area russia took from poland in the partitions of poland 1772-1795,so poland just "took it back" in 1921 You can play this game endlessly

Gleb B. / Глеб Б. The Soviets took Ukraine so the poles took the parts of Ukraine they captured after pushing the Soviets out. Much of which was actually technically diplomatically given to Poland after the the border war and Soviets invaded in return for help against to Soviets which they did. The poles helped liberate the capital and as part of the agreement went back to defend there own country.

Well...tbh, there was nothing they could do about it, Russia was just to far away, and to get to it, they would have to go through Germany, which they couldn't, as Germany would win the war if they wouldn't have had to worry about the USSR (70-80% of the German forces were stationed at the Eastern front on average during the war, and 9/10 German casualties were suffered on that very same front during the war against the Soviets), and could have had focused all of their military might on the Western front!

Same.

Me too

Joining the "+1" conga line.

I missed it. When was it?

@@NoNameAtAll2 1:51

Poland having an unrealistic opinion of its own military? That could never be.

Poland never was close to join axis. Actually was always identifying Nazie Germans as mortal threat. That's why Proposed France and UK war against Hitler in 1933. At that time Poland could win alone but there was no approval. Later history shoved ho had right.

That is the biggest bullshit i ever saw on youtube...

*GET OUT* ❗

[badum tish]

@@PANZERFAUST90 you do realize that you did finnish the joke, right?

😂😂😂

Why are they Russian so much to defeat Germany?

Poland is now part of nato, and I'm SURE that everyone will go to war to protect Poland and the Baltic republics this time.

@@ronmaximilian6953 better not to rely on that fact

@@DrPacman I was being sarcastic

@@ronmaximilian6953 yeah I know

Every nation want to partition Poland.

I know Sikorski's plane crash is VERY suspicious, but is there any proof of link to Churchill or bri'ish government found yet?

People: why didn't the allies invade the Ruhr area in 1939? Me: Hindenburg line with thousands of bunkers, trenches, barbed wire and land mines.

@@makeromaniagreatagain9697 isnt hindenburg line ww1 thing?

@@makeromaniagreatagain9697 it would've been better of they did invade, isn't it better to wage war on enemy soil rather than your own? France saw what happened to their country in WW1 and plus they had twice as many divisions, Britain and France had more manpower and rescources to draw on, while yes Germany did have the support from USSR, but it was a matter of time before they would invade a weakend Germany, exhausted by the war with the Allies.

@@sandrosaladze8095 I think it's mainly two points 1. Both wanted to end it diplomatically instead of a great war again (hindsight is 20/20) and 2. Both weren't really prepared for a large war.

But why should they have died for Danzig? What did the Poles offer in return? You act like Poland , a nation that hasnt existed for hundreds of years ( without france or britain caring about it ) was suddenly worth millions of french and british lives. You know what they also could have done? NOT declaring war on Germany in 39 and just let germany and the ussr restore the old european borders. The Poles should be grateful , but all i ever see are bitchin poles asking why the french and british soldiers didnt wanna die for them.

At that point nobody could have expected that but if you have more then 2 Braincells, you might come to the conclusion that having Germany, Italy (Allied to Japan) and the Soviet Union against you might be an unwinnable war

Poland still fought on tho

Seeing the USSR as a "superpower" is an anachronism and was very much not the case back then, it was seen as a backwater state with no real power. The real reason to not declare war was : Why ? Like seriously, why declare war on a country with which you have no fronts against...

Britain and France planned to help Finland against the Soviet Union, by asking to move troops through neutral Norway and Sweden, and also backstabbing Sweden and taking the country over while doing so. No surprise Sweden and Norway refused.

@@markhenley3097 Never heard something like this... Do you have any sources ?

@Alenas Kvasninas didn't ally

@Alenas Kvasninas You should know, that Poland wasn't ally of Hitler in 1938, Poland also didnt split Czechoslovakia in half when they were at the middle of bloody defence of their own country. Whatever Poland retook lands, wich were guaranted to her in Versaille and wich Czechoslovakia took by invasion in 1920. This is very bad example of Poland as a bad neighbor to others, especially that Czechoslovakia has been sold by whole western in 1935, and did nothing in their defence in 1937/8 when Germany took most, most of their country. Much better example wich is unjustified blame of Polish government was 1922 and Żeligowski action for wich Polish government never said sorry, and as many dumb polish nationalist don't see a reason for sorry. Whatever it is still not justification to Soviet Union to pull knife into polish back, annex 3 baltic states and stay as well in Poland and those countries for the next 50 years. And later attack on Finland. It was an agressor, not the first time, and hope Im totally wrong, but still is.

But never gonna happen again. 🇺🇸🤜🏼🤛🏻🇵🇱

@@Tmb1112 lol

How to fix Polish flag ? Easy, you need to add blue duct tape between white and red =)

@@user-yk2xb1ti2w Then it would be a lie.

@@user-yk2xb1ti2w now I know how to destroy Russia. Simply tear off the blue duct tape. Thank you.

Lmao no

That dutch flag

bad USSR! That's a bad USSR!

Stalin offered an anti facist coalition and both france and briitian refused

The USSR only took back land stolen from them by Poland a few years before.

Reddit has ruined RU-vid comments.

@@SimonAshworthWood this is pure bullshit

No one denied it, but the UK had no binding agreements to protect Poland from the USSR so it's not really double standards just politics. That being said I'm sure the allies would have reacted if they hadn't just fcked up their entire country and economies, lost millions of citizens, and anyone had any stomach left for war.

Yes, the last part. I never heard any of this until I worked with Polish people in the mid 2000s. I then realised the UK doesn't talk about Russia, at all, ever. It's like we pretend they don't exist

There were debates in the UK press and parliament at the time in a limited way. Churchill was very sorry after the war for the betrayal.

"War time!" Phony war time!

Well, was it Poland or Germany territory they invaded at that point?

@@GewalfofWivia It was Poland territory at that point in time.

Dude Suka means Like in Indonesian I just learned that in 2003

@@dnocturn84 Poland didn't have a government and millitary, so no.

Well, no, more would have died had they declared war.

That's completely the wrong way

France and Britain didn´t have the manpower to fight Germany and the Soviet Union at the same time. They had no other choice and in hindsight we can see that their theory was right. Edit: Germany and Napoleon couldn´t defeat Russia. How should the Allies beat both at the same time?

Lol the Soviet Union tried throughout the 30’s to make an anti-Nazi pact with the West but they refused

"He huffed and he puffed and he signed the eviction notice"

The big nosed masters

Poland, Lithuania, Finland, Latvia, Estonia* Meanwhile Britain and France's imperial empires control a third of the globe. But Germany wanting Danzig back was just too much.

Steve in essence you’re right. However, this was a case of German crazy hostility within Europe. If a power was raging war in say Africa(Ethiopia and Italy) those powers wouldn’t care at all.

>wanting your land back >"crazy hostility" Okay.

Steve uhuh uhuh >invading Austria >invading Czechoslovakia >being a literal dictator who’s planning on killing jews

@@Imperium83 you mean being a sore loser

Feels Czech/Polish/Yugoslavian/Romanian man

Did you not watch the video? lol

@@UM96lol well Romania was not even invaded and the british was busy helping Greece to help Yugoslavia especially with multiple countries invading it

@Tattle Boad you missed the point - the point being is that western allies lost the first half of the war exactly because they tried to be those 'intelligent, cold and calculated' opportunists, who did not even use their allies, they let them fall and go for not even a gain for the allies themselves

To be fair, The Yugoslavs were planning on helping the axis until they decided to have a civil war

Someone ripped off your comment and got 400 likes :/

Words cannot express how truly obliterated on the inside I feel -Stalin probably lol

@@spicyleaves8876 even the copied comment was copied.

Well, the USSR was a country with an ideology hostile to the west. They also slowly expanded into Eastern Europe and send supplies and equipment to Mao in China in an atempt to support communist revolutionaries. I believe the allies had every reason to hate the USSR.

nazi much?

@@makeromaniagreatagain9697 The Entente (The Allies) already invaded Russia to fight the Bolsheviks in the 1920's and failed to stop them from coming to power, once the USSR was stopped by Poland it ceased to really be a major threat to British or French interests in Europe. Once Stalin consolidated power, the Soviet Union also became less aggressive for the time being. Nazi Germany was, correctly, gauged to be a far more immediate threat to both French and British interests in Europe.

Poland was just an excuse, its not like France and Britain care about any thing but themselves, although thats understandable

@@franciscor.m.8003 well, they could have declared war on Germany when Germany re-armed, re-militarized the Rhineland, demanded Czechislovakia or when they occupied Czechia and made Slovakia a puppet state.

So true...

Also Britain had no plan other than to turtle on their island and wait for someone to help them

Ally with the Germans scenario: You are essentially a puppet and ordered to have all jews deported or sent to concentration camps Ally with the USSR scenario: Stalin would have prosecuted, and take away anyone who was seen as an enemy to him. This could've been the best scenario but the officers and government of Poland would have been extremely torn apart

Agree. I don't quite get why the Poles were so hardline and not susceptible to German demands towards Danzig. It must have been obvious to them (i should think) that being at bad terms with both Germany and USSR was sucidal.

@Uproar01 USSR won decisively.

@@kainuu3157 Stalingrad begs to differ.

@Uproar01 watch til the very end of the video homie.

@i get it THEY WOULD'VE LOST EITHER WAY, THERE IS PROOF, GERMANY WAS NOT GOING TO WIN, WITH OR WITHOUT SNOW, THE RUSSIAN LAND IS SIMPLY TOO BIG TO CONQUER.

No, they wouldn’t have Not when the Americans got involved

@Alenas Kvasninas say what?

@Alenas Kvasninas poland got a tiny piece of czechoslovakia, where poles were (and still are) majority. It wasn't agreed with germany or sth, they just took it anyway. Czechoslovakia was gone either way.

So what? It wasn't spring good or bad. It was about strong and weak

@@diurpaneustv2166 Yes thats True, but you forget to say that few years before this happend with "Zaolzie" Czechoslovakia cheated the poles and took this piece when Poland was fighting aganist soviet russia and save all Europe from communism So, when poles have a chance they Just took what was stold from them Thats how it was

Previously pissing the Soviets AND Mongols off, definetly didnt help their situation. Its also worth noting that the Pacific was and still is quite a goldmine. So its not like Japan had no reason to go there. China fought them to a standstill, the Russians crushed them before and the only way they could expand is by kicking out Colonial Powers like the Netherlands or France, which were all busy thanks to Germany

@@elseggs6504 It is the other way around, Japan crushed Russia before.

@@mdaniel5384 Japan crushed Russia so hard at Kalkhin Gol that they retreated, signed a non-aggression pact and didnt bother taking their pacific coastline. Edit: in case you're too dense, its sarcasm

@@elseggs6504 I was talking about the Russo-Japanese war, not about a border conflict. I looked at the numbers involved in the conflict you mentioned and the casualties. That is supposed to be a crushing win by the Soviets?

@@mdaniel5384 It scared Japan enough to shift their focus towards the Pacific instead of helping Germany out.

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Poland was also not very nice to its neighbours just look what they did to Czechoslovakia in 1938

If i am not mistaken the Allies refused to recognize the USSR until the 1930's

Stalin had tried and failed to create an anti-fascist pact with Britain prior to the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, but they Allies would do very under-the-table trade with the newly heavily industrialized Soviet Union. Prior to WWII, Soviets also had a rather large population so no relatioms would've been stupid, but the everyday people(especially the British people) could never know this, as communism exists to topple existing power structures(especially Monarchies). So yes, but they weren't friends and Russia couldn't try to be.

Strix no we (the British) recognised them in 1924

They saw the USSR as both a threat and an asset. Ideologically, the USSR was their greatest enemy, but militarily Russia/USSR could keep Germany in check.

The anti fascit pact contained similarities of the molotove ribbentrop pact like control of the baltics and poland although they were not clearly defined

No pun intended 👀😂

Legit?

Try Sam O'Nella academy. Guy makes hilarious videos about various, generally history-related things.

Great Reset: states are useless, let's make communism.

@@janminiajluk3964 i like how if there is a plan for a great reset they want to make everyone poor and pissed off at the rich elite first then try to take what everyone has left

@@TheDuPeNetwork they also said in Davos that there's gonna be no private property in the future, all objects that you can have now by paying money, clothes, cars etc. won't be own by people, it will be "rent from the state", and, quote, "people will own nothing an be happy". Brave new world...

@@janminiajluk3964 Expect all the people who would want to own something and be pissed. Which would be everyone, because, you know, drive to self sustain and such. The Great Reset is basically the Elite saying: "Hey guys, I know you like property and rights and stuff, buuuut our Empires are at risk of collapsing through our own ineptness, so we're gonna take that all that away at the chance that it might fix them? ok?"

Can't believe there hasn't been a correct response to your dogshit comment yet. Here it is: LOL, how many world wars have been fought under the UN's existence again...?

Because it was Polish territory, and Czechia just allowed it.

@@d.k8257 USSR also took their own territory from Poland in 1939.

@@gfan83 Nope, it was never theirs. they also legally handed it over to poland in the 1917 treaty of brest livotsk

@@d.k8257 It was territories of Russian Empire wich Poland occupied in 1921.

@@gfan83 Nope

Nazi Germany started the war and their ideology was far worse. You think they only did the holocaust? Try that times 20. Read generalpan Ost. Full enslavement, rape, relocation, and genocide of all polish and Russian civilians. The Soviets were no where near as brutal and thank god they won along with the allies. Post-Stalin SU was not perfect, but it was better than the alternative by far.

Let’s not forget that the allies weren’t angels, The US had slaves and still had segregation during WW2. And GB is arguably the largest mass murderer in the history of humanity.

RusBaller03 .Same atrocities Soviet Russia did. Soviets also help start the Korean War right after WWII they weren’t any better by a long shot.

Because the same group controls the allies and the Soviets and they want to destroy their enemies, Europeans.

Finland as well. It's okay when Soviets invade countries.

Which is great and awful joke reference at the same time.

It's 5 time . 4 was after the Napoleonic Wars where Russia , Prussia and Austria divided Duchy of Warsaw

@@pachacutiincayupanqui2239 6 times the charm. Becasue obviously its going to happen. As sun rises after the night, so does Poland get invaded, that is the rule of nature. There's been 273 separate wars in Poland's history. At least, i probably missed some.

@@pachacutiincayupanqui2239 let's say 4th. Duchy of Warsaw wasn't really independent

It’s called big business

Now imagine if hitler was autistic enough to still invade the soviets.

@@Zen-rw2fz He had to. There was no other choice. Reason: Natural resources and raw materials. Invading Britain will only be a waste of time, manpower and war materials since Britain's economy depends on imports. Germany had the industries, but to run them, they needed resources. SU had the resources. They had everything Germany needed. Hitler followed Mackinder's Heartland Theory. Barbarossa's prime objective was the Caucasus oil to keep the industries and economy running, but since February 43 after the failure in Stlingrad, Germans were on retreat from SU. Moscow campaign was unnecessary and it cost Germans the war. Basically, WW2 was to restore Germany's honor on international stage after the disastrous WW 1 and Versailles and be a superpower who would be respected. Germany was bound to dominate Europe either by economically or military or by both and Hitler preferred the both scenario. You will only have a fresh start after you have lost everything. Hence, Germany fought till 45. Even Americans knew Germany was bound to be a powerful nation. Modern Germany is economically powerful, but weak in military. Then again, it was in the fate. Without WW2, Germany wouldn't be an economic power like it is today. Hitler's death was also necessary to give Germany a fresh start. Hitler was many things, but coward isn't one of them. Modern Germany is still a diplomatic power who have taken part in important agreements like Dayton, Minsk and even the ceasefire between Russia and Turkey regarding Syria. It's funny that both Bismarck and Lenin wanted a close Russian-German relationship. Weimar would have never achieved such reputation.

@@erich2432 the "wirtschaft wunder" was a result of massive USA funds, the DDR is a pretty great example of what germany would have been like without US support, in terms of economic power. the oil fields were the last thing hitler wanted, what came before that was his ideological fanaticism, the war was mainly about ending anyone that disagreed with them ideologically and "lesser races". the capture of moscow was supposed to end the war because apparently soviets are a lesser race and wouldn't be difficult to fight. only after the failure of moscow did hitler pay attention to resources.

@@Zen-rw2fz Marshall Aid was no charity. The US got a huge chunk of German industries and stole patents as well as got the Western European market. Germany got 11% aid in comparison to both France (20%) and Britain (28%). Besides, FDR wanted to do the Morgenthau Plan which was one of the reasons why Germans kept fighting. Had they surrendered in 1944, it would've been worse than Versailles with 20-30 million deaths and biggest humiliation they ever suffered. The July 20 plotters were just a bunch of power hungry folks who didn't think of long term. The war was much needed. Weimar did no favour to Germany. WW1 could've been avoided. But, WW2 was a necessity for Germany. Without WW1, there wouldn't be WW2. My opinions are based on realpolitik. Ideology is often used as cover. Though NSDAP preferred both. And the paperclip thing is overrated. Top 6 died during and after the war. Guys like Euchmann, Müller, Mengele were just side-kicks though Eichmann was caught by Mossad and sentenced to death. You need resources and raw materials to run your industrues and economy. Germany were importing oil from Romania and irom from Sweden. Which why they invaded Crete to stop British from building an air base who would've bombed Romanian fields. Battle of Britain cost a huge chunk of resources and the Luftwaffe was pretty much dead by then. Heartland Theory and Hitler's vision was correlated.

what horrors would have been spread if those two murdererous madmen had teamed up... I mean, what worse horrors...

His power is beyond our comprehension.

Unfortunatly to Russians a strong worded letter in english, is a very polite response.

that's a tad later, when UN became a thing

I know I was just joking

Noise

it's really grotesque when you actually consider the real history behind that joke

@@mjm3091 Yes History was harsh with Poland (and by history I mean it's neighbors)

Suffering Poland