E-MAIL THIS LINK
To: 

Russians say Poland "Partly to Blame" for WW II
Relations between Poland and Russia have never come easy.
There was the little dust-up that started in 1939, with massacres and purges thereafter, the Solidarity Movement, the Polish Pope the KGB r=tried to wack with a Turkish crackpot. And all that was before most of today's folks were even born.
Poland has repeatedly rejected Moscow's control Moscow's control and embraced the West, joining NATO and the European Union. But tensions have been especially high since Russia annexed Crimea in 2014, a step that Warsaw has strongly condemned.

The Russian ambassador sparked outage on Friday for putting some of the blame for the start of World War II on Poland. The

Russian Ambassador described the Soviet invasion of Poland in 1939 as an act of self-defense, not aggression. "Polish policy led to the disaster in September 1939, because during the 1930s Poland repeatedly blocked the formation of a coalition against Hitler's Germany," Andreev said in an interview with the private TVN station. "Poland was therefore partly responsible for the disaster which then took place."
In the sense that Poland still existed in 1939, I guess that fact made them 'partly responsible'.

For those of you who slept through history class --
World War II began after Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union agreed to a pact in 1939 that included a secret provision to carve up Poland and other parts of Eastern Europe. Germany soon invaded Poland from the West, which was followed by a Soviet invasion from the east more than two weeks later. Millions of Poles were killed in the war.
The Commies waited over two weeks for the Poles to fold. That's another reason they are to blame - they didn't cave in fast enough!
"The narrative presented by the highest official representative of the Russian state in Poland undermines the historical truth and reflects the most hypocritical interpretation of the events known from the Stalinist and communist years," the Poland Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

"The role of an ambassador accredited in a country should be to build to build harmony and friendly relations between countries," said Poland's Prime Misiter.
That'a a lovely idea, but only partially true. An ambassador's job is to present his government's position on various matters pertaining to his host country, to provide useful information to his government which will aid in developing those positions, and in his or her spare time, provide some level of aid and assistance to his country's citizens when they are in his host country and provide visas and suchlike paperwork to those who would like to travel to his country. It does help in the first two functions if he is both intelligent and charming enough to create the illusion of friendship in his hosts' minds, but not absolutely necessary.
In other points of contention in recent days, Poland blocked a Crimean official hoping to attend an OSCE conference in Warsaw from entering the country, angering Moscow. Moscow has also protested a Polish town's dismantling of a monument to a Soviet World War II general, threatening Warsaw with "most serious consequences" for that.
Aha! At last - something that makes sense!
Posted by: Bobby 2015-09-27
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=430739