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Post by katolickaanarchia on Jun 4, 2009 13:54:27 GMT -5
Russian megalomania
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Post by CHORNYVOLK on Jun 4, 2009 14:03:37 GMT -5
Selective memory seems to be a Polish trait. However none of the facts below can be denied by any scholars.But I am sure our polish friends will give a gallant effort.
CHRONOLOGY PRE WORLD WAR 2
March, 16 1933
At the World conference on disarmament the British prime minister has offered to
allow to Germany to double the strength German Army and to reduce the strength
of the French army.
1933
Refusal of Poland to take part in offered by the USSR " East pact ". Poland and
Germany have offered the USSR to conclude such pact without France and
Czechoslovakia but on such conditions USSR has refused.
January 1934
The nonaggression pact between Germany and Poland.
May, 2 1935
The Soviet-French political treaty about mutual aid. However in June 1936
L.Blume's government came to authority in France which was against signing the
military treaty with the USSR has come, and it was not made.
June, 18 - 1935
England signed with Germany the sea agreement allowing Germany to have the
military fleet.
March, 7 1936
German Army came to the Rhine area. Poland has supported this step. France has
declared, that has no more obligations to Warsaw. England has taken a neutral
position. Later Poland also has supported invasion of Austria.
November, 19 1937
Lord Halifax while visiting Hitler in Oberzaltzberg offers agreement of 4 powers
without the USSR; he told that " and other members of the English government are
full of consciousness, that fuhrer has achieved a lot not only in the Germany,
but as a result of destruction of communism in the country he has blocked a way
of communism to the Western Europe and consequently Germany can be considered as
a bastion of the West against Bolshevism ".
The end of April 1938
Halifax has declared to German representative Kordt that the Great Britain will
not undertake additional military obligations to France, not speaking about
Czechoslovakia.
May, 18 1938
The president of Czechoslovakia Benes has told the English ambassador: " if the
Western Europe will lose interest to Russia, Czechoslovakia will lose it too ".
September, 20 1938
The Soviet government has answered Benes that will assist Czechoslovakia if
France too will assist; refusal of Poland to pass the Soviet armies even at the
request of France. In Poland at that time they speak: " with Germany we can lose
independence, and with Russia - our soul ".
September, 21 1938
At 2 o'clock in the morning the Anglo-French ultimatum to the government of
Czechoslovakia about acceptance of the German requirements issued. After signing
the Munich agreements the president of USA has sent congratulation Chamberlan.
October, 2 1938
The Polish armies occupied the Czech Tesin and adjoining territory . Thus,
Poland together with hitlerite Germany participated in occupation and a
partition of Czechoslovakia and input of the Soviet armies to Poland was not
unique and not the first similar action of that time.
November 1938
Armies of Hungary have occupied a part of Slovakia and belonging to Slovakia
Zakarpatye Ukraine (Slovakia that time was halfindependent country after a
partition of Czechoslovakia).
November 1938
The ambassador of USA in Paris: "it would be desirable for the democratic
countries that there, in the East, business has reached the sanction of
questions at issue by war between Germany and Russia ? In England, and USA hotly
trust France, that the nearest months the great sanction of questions in the
east " will begin.
March, 9 1939
The British ambassador in Berlin Genderson: " it seems inevitable to me , that
Germany wants tear off this rich country (Ukraine) from the huge Russian state.
we can not to give Germany of cardblanche in the East blindly. But achievement
of the agreement with Hitler is not impossible, assuming that it will be limited
to reasonable conditions which observance is possible to expect from Hitler".
March, 10 1939
Stalin's application that the main warmongers are England and France, instead of
Germany.
March, 27 1939
The British Minister for Foreign Affairs Halifax to the ambassador in Warsaw
Kennard: " it should be clear that all our attempts to consolidate position are
destroyed, if the Soviet government openly will take part in this plan ".
(concerning the offer of the USSR to call conference on discussion of the help
of Romania).
April, 14 1939
The British government has offered Soviet Union to give unilateral obligations
to neighbouring countries. Obligations to the USSR was not provided.
April, 17 1939
The answer of the Soviet government about desirability of the conclusion
tripartite (the USSR, England, France) agreements.
May, 3 1939
Minister for Foreign Affairs Litvinov with pro-Western orientation is removed
and replaced with Molotov.
May, 8 1939
The answer of the governments of England and France with a rejection to the
Soviet offer and recurrence of their memorandum from April, 14.
May, 28 September, 15 1939
The ÿÍÁÅÐßÉÍ-Japanese conflict on the river the Halhin-Gol. In same time England
concludes the contract with the Japanese government.
June 1939
Confidential negotiations of the Great Britain with Germany on sections of
spheres of influence. Russia and China were offered to Germany.
June, 12 1939
The offer to Halifax to arrive to Moscow. Halifax refused.
August, 11 1939
The English delegation of minor figures arrives to Moscow. It is typical, that
they have gone to Moscow by steamship, instead of usual at that time plane. In
Moscow it is found out, that the English delegation has no official powers on
negotiating. The English and French military missions have offered to discuss
the general(common) principles without consideration of real military plans.
August, 19 1939
The conclusion in Berlin of the trading - credit agreement between the USSR and
Germany.
August, 23 1939
The conclusion of the notorious Soviet-German pact in Moscow.
The Munich Agreement, 1938 (The West's refusal to confront Nazi aggression)
Ever since Hitler came to power in 1933 he had made successive assaults on the restrictions that had been placed on Germany by the Treaty of Versailles. He had begun secretly the process of rearmament and felt confident enough to announce the program in 1935, the same year in which he introduced conscription to the new German army. Encouraged by England's acquiescence in German naval expansion, he next remilitarized the neutral Rhineland zone. Two years later, with the annexation of Austria, the Treaty was well and truly buried. Yet despite his reassuring falsehoods over the years since 1933--"We will never attempt to subjugate foreign peoples," "We have no territorial claims to make in Europe," and the like--by the summer of 1938 he had begun a propaganda campaign against Czechoslovakia, ally of both France and Russia, in the matter of the 3 million or so ethnic Germans in the Sudeten region of that country, a former territory of the defunct Austrian empire. Lurid threats were hurled by the Nazi propaganda machine against the alleged mistreatment of their minority Germans; the excuse for the contemplated destruction of Czechoslovakia, a state unjustifiably dubbed by Hitler as 'a Bolshevik aircraft carrier in the heart of Europe'.
During the summer the pro-Nazi elements among the Czech Germans demanded to secede from Czechoslovakia, a move that, in the absence of support from their allies or Great Britain, the Czecks could not resist. The result- -a clear example of the workings of appeasement (of which the British prime minister Neville Chamberlain, shown here upon his return from Munich with the scrap of paper that was to "ensure peace in our time"!), was the hopeful exponent)in the attempt to prevent hostilities--was the Munich Agreement, generally regarded as the shameful culmination of the Allied refusal (and inability at that time) to confront Nazi aggression.
Agreement reached on September 29, 1938, between Germany, the United Kingdom, France, and Italy
1) The evacuation will begin on October lst.
2) The United Kingdom, France, and Italy agree that the evacuation of the territory shall be completed by October 10th, without any existing installations having been destroyed, and that the Czechoslovak Government will be held responsible for carrying out the evacuation without damage to the said installations.
3) The conditions governing the evacuation will be laid down in detail by an international commission composed of representatives of Germany, the United Kingdom, France, Italy, and Czechoslovakia.
4) The occupation by stages of the predominantly German territory by German troops will begin on October 1st. The four territories marked on the attached map will be occupied by German troops in the following order: the territory marked number I on the 1st and 2d of October, the territory marked number II on the 2d and 3d of October, the territory marked number III on the 3d, 4th, and 5th of October, the territory marked number IV on the 6th and 7th of October. The remaining territory of preponderantly German character will be ascertained by the aforesaid international commission forthwith and be occupied by German troops by the 10th of October.
5) The international commission referred to in paragraph 3 will determine the territories in which a plebiscite is to be held. These territories will be occupied by international bodies until the plebiscite has been completed. The same commission will fix the conditions in which the plebiscite is to be held, taking as a basis the conditions of the Saar [territory ceded to France by the treaty of Versailles for 15 years; returned to Germany in 1935] plebiscite. The commission will also fix a date, not later than the end of November, on which the plebiscite will be held.
6) The final determination of the frontiers will be carried out by the international commission. This commission will also be entitled to recommend to the four Powers, Germany, the United Kingdom, France, and Italy, in certain exceptional cases, minor modifications in the strictly ethnographical determination of the zones which are to be transferred without plebiscite.
7) There will be a right of option into and out of the transferred territories, the option to be exercised within 6 months from the date of this agreement. A German-Czechoslovak commission shall determine the details of the option, consider ways of facilitating the transfer of population and settle questions of principle arising out of the said transfer.
8) The Czechoslovak Government will, within a period of 4 weeks from the date of this agreement, release from their military and police forces any Sudeten Germans who may wish to be released, and the Czechoslovak Government will within the same period release Sudeten German prisoners who are serving terms of imprisonment for political offenses.
Adolf Hitler
Ed. Daladier
Mussolini
Neville Chamberlain
Munich, September 29, 1938
Annex to the Agreement
His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom and the French Government have entered into the above agreement on the basis that they stand by the offer, contained in paragraph 6 of the Anglo-French proposals of September 19th, relating to an international guarantee of the new boundaries of the Czechoslovak State against unprovoked aggression. When the question of the Polish and Hungarian minorities in Czechoslovakia has been settled, Germany and Italy for their part will give a guarantee to Czechoslovakia.
Munich, September 29, 1938
Additional Declaration
The four Heads of Government here present agree that the international commission, provided for in the agreement signed by them today, shall consist of the State Secretary in the German Foreign Office, the British, French, and Italian Ambassadors accredited in Berlin, and a representative to be nominated by the Government of Czechoslovakia.
Munich, September 29, 1938
Additional Declaration
The Heads of the Governments of the four Powers declare that the problems of the Polish and Hungarian minorities in Czechoslovakia, if not settled within 3 months by agreement between the respective Governments, shall form the subject of another meeting of the Heads of the Governments of the four Powers here present.
Munich, September 29, 1938
Supplementary Declaration
All questions which may arise out of the transfer of the territory shall be considered as coming within the terms of reference to the international commission.
Munich, September 29, 1938
I. Appeasing and Giving Free Rein to the Aggressors
Czechoslovakia is a country of multiple peoples. There were 3 million Teutons in Czechoslovakia, most living in Sudetenland between the northwest of Czechoslovakia and Germany. Hitler instigated the local Nazi partisans to propose autonomy in Sudetenland and proposed a merge with Germany. The president of Czechoslovakia firmly rejected the proposal. While 1.5 million fully armed Czechoslovakians were standing by for a war with Germany behind the most solid defense line in Europe, Chamberlain, the Prime Minister of England, and the French President, chose to pacify Germany at the expense of Czechoslovakia, in order to maintain the so-called 'peace and order.'
In September 1938, Germany, England, France and Italy refused the presence of Czechoslovakia, and signed the notorious 'Munich Pact' in Munich, a city in southern Germany. The four countries agreed to give the Czech Sudetenland and a southern Czech territory adjacent to Austria to Germany. In return, the four countries would guarantee that Germany would not invade the rest of Czechoslovakia. Hitter declared that he would have no more interest in Czechoslovakia once the issue on Sudetenland had been settled. Hitler said, (paraphrasing) 'This is my last requirement for territory in Europe.' The leaders of England and France easily believed his words and believed that the wolf would become a vegetarian after he devoured Czech Sudetenland.
A few hours after the Munich Conference, Chamberlain met Hitler in his apartment. Chamberlain produced a draft declaration, which he had prepared, as follows:
'[:]we regard the Agreement signed last night, and the Anglo-German Naval Agreement, as symbolic of the desire of our two peoples never to go to war with one another again.'
Hitler read and signed it without demur.
Chamberlain returned to England. At Heathrow where he landed, he waved the joint declaration which he had got Hitler to sign and read it to the crowd of notables and others who welcomed him. From the windows of Downing Street he waved his piece of paper again and used these words, 'This is the second time there has come back from Germany to Downing Street peace with honor. I believe it is peace in our time.'
Ungrounded trust of people with evil intentions caused his unrealistic optimism. It was that very paper that appeased and gave free rein to the aggressors and dragged the whole world into the abyss of the war. Just as Winston Churchill told Chamberlain later, (paraphrasing) 'When you were asked to make a selection between war and humiliation, you chose the latter, whereas, you will have to be in war sooner or later.'
While Czechoslovakia was about to collapse, Poland and Hungary also took advantage of the Czech misfortune. Immediately after the Munich Agreement, the Polish Government sent a 24-hour ultimatum to the Czechs demanding the immediate hand-over of the frontier district of Teschen. Hungary also put forward its own request.
In fact, the Munich Agreement sentenced Czechoslovakia to death. Czechoslovakia not only lost 1/5 of its territory, as well as 1/4 of its population, but also lost its solid fortress. All of its railways, roads, and telephone and telegram systems were demolished. In less than six months, Hitler's troops marched into Prague, assuming absolute control over the rest of defenseless Czechoslovakia. Meanwhile, Hungarian troops, backed surreptitiously by Poland, occupied the eastern province of Czechoslovakia, or Carpatho-Ukraine, which they demanded.
The League of Nations certainly suffered a loss through the fall of Czechoslovakia equivalent to some thirty-five divisions of troops. Skoda Works, the second most important arsenal factory in Central Europe, was also lost to Germany. The production volume of Skoda Works between August 1938 and September 1939 alone was nearly equal to that of all British arsenal factories in that period. The adverse loss of Skoda Works to Germany drastically increased Hitler's military power.
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Post by Orao on Jun 5, 2009 1:07:58 GMT -5
This is complete absurdity on the part of Russia, if this is really the official policy and view...
it's funny to accuse someone of being 'guilty' for wanting to be 'grandeur' when Russia is so hard at trying to prove itself to the world that it is just that.
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Post by katolickaanarchia on Jun 5, 2009 1:29:20 GMT -5
History is over. Get back to reality.
Legislation that regulates thoughts and goes back into time are signs of a fascist regime.
Similarly to the USA, in Russia the lawyer clique who rules at the top invents laws which are not just laws to sanitise their government's actions and protect their clan.
In Europe, we accept cogitationis nemo punitur and lex retro non agit(also known as Nullum crimen, nulla poena sine praevia lege poenali). It seems Putin and Miedwiediew have not grown up to democracy. Their motivation in creating this law is the defense of the public consciousness. The meer reference to public consciousness of the Russian people screams: "Marxist legal doctrine". Mr.ChornyVolk calls Anglo-Saxons Marxists but when his beloved figureheads formulate a legal doctrine based on Marxist-Soviet philosophy, that is not wrong. Perhaps, you should be consequential and call the Russian President, Prime Minister and Duma a bunch of marxists, because that is what they are.
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Post by CHORNYVOLK on Jun 5, 2009 10:00:08 GMT -5
The marxists are the EU. And I do not stand up for communists as they executed members of my family.That being the reason I was not born in Russia.
Poland Joined Hitler in Dismembering Czechoslovakia
by Thomas M. Sipos
It's widely known that Hitler and Stalin dismembered Poland in 1939. Little known is that, a year earlier, Poland had joined Hitler in dismembering Czechoslovakia.
This ironic bit of historical trivia appears in Volume One of The Illustrated World War II Encyclopedia. Hardly a work of conspiracist revisionism [see its credits at the bottom of this article], its recounting of Hitler's dismemberment of Czechoslovakia is well known, apart from the details concerning Hungary and Poland’s roles.
According to the Encyclopedia, in May 1938, Hitler mobilized his military to annex Czechoslovakia's German-speaking Sudetenland. When Britain, France, and the USSR threatened war, Hitler backed down, but continued pressing the issue. On September 15, Britain's Neville Chamberlain visited Hitler to discuss a peaceful solution. On September 22, Chamberlain agreed to allow Hitler to annex the Sudetenland but refused to permit immediate entry for German troops, thus Hitler remained dissatisfied. On September 23, Czechoslovakia mobilized its military and war looked imminent.
Then Poland made its move. On September 27, seeing Czechoslovakia in crisis as Germany prepared to invade, Poland issued an ultimatum demanding that Czechoslovakia cede its Tesin (Teschen) district.
On September 29, France, Britain, Germany, and Italy signed the Munich Agreement. This allowed Hitler to take the Sudetenland in exchange for him agreeing to "guarantee" Czechoslovakia's borders – but only after Poland and Hungary (which by now had joined in) had taken their shares.
The Encyclopedia reports: "As Article 1 of the [Munich] agreement put it, ‘when the question of the Polish and Hungarian minorities in Czechoslovakia has been settled, Germany and Italy will each give a similar guarantee to Czechoslovakia’. Poland had been first to share in the spoils. After an ultimatum from Warsaw on September 27, 1938, Czechoslovakia had ceded to Poland the district of Tesin (Teschen) – an area of some 625 square miles with a population of 230,000 people."
Returning in Britain, Chamberlain made his famous "peace in our time" statement while waving the Munich Agreement. Today, many people know that the Agreement gave Czech territory to Germany; few know that it also gave Czech territory to Hungary and Poland.
After Poland annexed Czechoslovakia’s Tesin district, Hungary took some of Czechoslovakia’s Sub-Carpathian Ruthenia region, claiming that it had been stolen from Hungary after World War One by the 1920 Treaty of Trianon.
If Czechoslovakia appears to have rolled over without a fight, it was partly because, even as it was being dismembered, it was contending with secessionist demands from its Slovakian region. To appease its Slovak citizens, Czechoslovakia agreed to grant more autonomy to Slovakia, and to hyphenate the country's name, so it became Czecho-Slovakia.
Abandoned by its allies and threatened with civil war, the Prague government hoped that Germany, Hungary, and Poland would be satisfied with their immediate territorial demands. The Encyclopedia reports that: "Having appeased the Polish and Hungarian demands in accordance with the Munich Agreement, Czecho-Slovakia was now entitled to ask for the promised guarantees from Italy and Germany. On November 5, Chvalkovsky raised the point in a discussion with Dr. Hencke, German charge d’affaires in Prague, only to be dismissed with the reply: ‘The question of the guarantee will not arise until the new frontiers have been defined in detail by the commissions.’"
But instead of guaranteeing the new borders, Hitler took advantage of Czecho-Slovakia’s internal divisions. He encouraged Slovakia to declare independence, so that he could more easily take the remaining Czech region. As enticement, in March 1939, Hitler promised Slovakia that if it declared independence, he would protect it – from Hungary and Poland.
The Encyclopedia states that Hitler gave Slovakia a choice: "[O]n one hand, the autonomous Slovak Government could continue to exist according to the statute granted to it in the previous autumn by the Prague Government – in which case Germany would settle accounts with the Czechs and leave the Slovaks to the mercies of Poland and Hungary. Alternatively, if Slovakia demanded immediate independence from Prague, the Reich would offer all-powerful protection to the new state, and would shield her from the territorial greed of Warsaw and Budapest."
Most of us know the fallout. Hitler annexed the remaining Czech region. Slovakia won its independence, only to be reunited with the Czechs under Communism, then seceded again after Communism’s collapse.
After the USSR was cut out of the Munich Agreement by its French and British allies, Stalin, always paranoid and now distrusting France and Britain more than ever, did his own about-face and signed the 1939 Non-Aggression Pact with Hitler.
Less than a year after taking its piece of Czechoslovakia, Poland was conquered by Hitler and Stalin. To this day, Russia has not returned much of the territory it took from Poland during World War Two.
Were Poland or Hungary’s claims to Czechoslovakian territory valid? I truly don’t know. But in any event, I do think it makes for an interesting and ironic bit of historical trivia.
[The Illustrated World War II Encyclopedia is "Based on the Original Text of Lt. Col. Eddy Bauer; Editor-in-Chief Brigadier Peter Young, DSO, MC, MA; Consultant Editors: Brigadier General James L. Collins, Jr. U.S.A., Chief of Military History, Dept. of the Army, and Correlli Barnett, Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge; Editorial Director Brian Innes; H.S. Stuttman Inc. Publishers; Copyright Orbis Publishing Ltd., 1972, 1978, Copyright Jaspard Polus, Monaco, 1966; ISBN: 0-87475-520-4."]
August 16, 2003
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Post by katolickaanarchia on Jun 5, 2009 10:41:06 GMT -5
The marxists are the EU. And I do not stand up for communists as they executed members of my family.That being the reason I was not born in Russia. The Czechoslovakia-Poland 1938 affair Poland in 1926-1939 was ruled by a fascist military regime. The majority of Poles are not to blame for what happened here in the 1930's. It was not a democracy but a military dictatorship of generals. The Polish people are not at fault for what their government did in their name. The Sanacja regime used nationalism as a tool to carry out their plans but nationalists were the regime's most hated enemy. |
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Post by krakus on Jun 5, 2009 11:28:46 GMT -5
Germany and Russia...always good friends 1939  Soviet and German officers meet after the Soviet invasion of Poland (1939). From German propaganda newsreel. The German officer shows a leaflet in Russian, informing on desire of the Wehrmacht «to enter with soldiers of Red Army into good soldier's attitudes» and about deep respect which «at us the Russian soldier always used» Generals Heinz Guderian (center) and Semyon Krivoshein (right) at the common parade in East Poland.Today..   |
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Post by boris on Jun 5, 2009 12:51:54 GMT -5
By the way, Chornyvolk is of German blood.  |
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Post by Krzywousty on Jun 9, 2009 19:33:58 GMT -5
I didnt see this thread til now, i just posted a new one about the very same thing, oops
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Post by Krzywousty on Jun 9, 2009 20:21:03 GMT -5
over the Cieszyn thing, Poland was in conflict with the Czechs over land around the same time it was at war with the Soviets, the outcome was that Cieszyn would be divided in half. And it was even though about 130,000 Poles were left on the Czech half. Poland did annex the area in '38 and Hitler did so and launched some of his divisions unto Poland from there in '39.
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Post by CHORNYVOLK on Jun 18, 2009 19:01:20 GMT -5
Russia: West slighted Soviets in D-Day ceremonies
Steve Gutterman, Associated Press Writer – Thu Jun 18, 10:45 am ET
MOSCOW – Russia on Thursday accused Western leaders of slighting the Soviet role in the Allied victory over Nazi Germany in their remarks this month commemorating the D-Day landings in Normandy.
The June 6 ceremonies would not have taken place if not for the sacrifice of millions of Soviet soldiers, Foreign Ministry spokesman Andrei Nesterenko said.
He said the leaders of Britain, France, Canada and the United States presented a "peculiar interpretation" of World War II, overstating the significance of the Western front fighting and failing to pay adequate tribute to the Soviet contribution to victory.
"Not a word was spoken about the decisive role ... of the Soviet Union, which took on itself the most terrible blow of Hitler's army and suffered the greatest human losses," Nesterenko said.
The comments underscored Russian leaders' insistence on universal acceptance of their portrayal of historical events, particularly World War II and the divisive Soviet role in postwar Europe. In speeches at the June 6 ceremonies in Normandy, President Barack Obama was the only Western leader to mention the Soviet sacrifice.
Europe's liberation and the D-Day commemorations themselves "would have been impossible if millions of our soldiers had not paid for this with their blood and their lives in battle against the best units of Hitler's Wehrmacht; if our army — in the words of Churchill — had not broken the back of Hitler's war machine."
An estimated 27 million Soviet citizens died in the war, and the victory over Nazi Germany is an immense source of pride for Russians regardless of whether they look back to the Soviet era with nostalgia or anger over the government's oppression of its own people.
For decades, Russian officials and many citizens have expressed dismay about what they see as Western ignorance of the Soviet contribution. Many Russians in turn are unaware of the extent of the Western Allies' contribution, and a common view shaped by Soviet propaganda is that the United States waited to enter the war until the outcome was clear.
The commemorations of the Normandy landings were already marred by a diplomatic tiff among Western nations over their roles in the war. Many Britons grumble that their nation does not get its due — either from its ally, the United States, or from the French whom it helped to liberate.
The Foreign Ministry comments came amid a growing Kremlin campaign to criticize anyone who questions Russia's interpretation of history from the country's beginnings over a millennium ago. Last month, President Dmitry Medvedev created a state commission to fight what he asserted are growing attempts to harm Russia by lying about its history.
Kremlin critics say it is Russia that is seeking to hide the truth and whitewash the Soviet Union's conduct at home and abroad.
The Kremlin push to control the interpretation of postwar history is adding to friction between Russia and former Soviet republics and satellites in Eastern Europe, many of whose citizens see the Soviet Union as an occupier rather than a liberator.
The Polish government demanded an explanation earlier this month after a research paper blaming Poland for World War II was posted on the Russian Defense Ministry's Web site.
Tension could increase further as Russia prepares to celebrate the 65th anniversary of the Allied victory next May.
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Post by CHORNYVOLK on Jul 3, 2009 12:11:05 GMT -5
Belarus values USSR's role in defeating Nazism
Front page / World / Former USSR
03.07.2009 Source: Pravda.Ru
Belarus celebrates Independence Day on July 3. Soviet troops liberated Belarusian capital, Minsk, from Nazi invaders 65 years ago. The nation traditionally celebrates this day with a military parade. This year the country will hold special festivities to mark the 65th anniversary of liberation from German fascism.
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Several details connected with war actions on the territory of Belarus are especially interesting. The country showed no massive resistance to Nazis. There were many partisan groups in Belarus, but the majority of Belarusians were not joining those groups in the beginning of the war.
The majority of Belarusians continued their housekeeping activities. The Germans would confiscate their food on a regular basis and hold public executions of those suspected of their cooperation with partisans. Many Belarusians were forced to hide in the woods and join the partisan troops.
The partisan movement in Belarus was growing very fast. The Germans were unable to struggle against the guerrillas, so they asked Ukrainian and Baltic nationalists for help.
The village of Khatyn became the symbol of courage and endurance of the Belarusian nation. Nazi Germans and Ukrainian nationalists burnt the village on March 22, 1943. Every fourth citizen of Belarus was killed in the war.
It goes without saying that Nazi Germany was not going to grant any independence to Belarus. Nazis did not see the nation as an equal partner and simply used the country for their own interests.
Nazis attempted to set up a local army in Belarus, but the initiative failed due to mass desertion. Belarus’s nationalist leaders moved to other countries across the ocean after the war.
Unlike Ukraine and the Baltic States, Belarus refused to glorify Nazism and never declared its nationalists as heroes and fighters against communism.
Brushing all problems aside, Belarus is a Russia-friendly state. Like all Russians, millions of Belarusians treasure the memory of the war. This memory is much more important to them than the dairy or the gas conflicts between the two countries.
Mikhail Vovk
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Post by Orao on Jul 3, 2009 17:58:31 GMT -5
The "new" and reinvented histories of many of the E. European countries after 1991 are just something that make me, more often than not, feel disgusted.
Belarus has been the exception in this, as it has Lukashenko (and we all know who he is).
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Post by pastir on Jul 5, 2009 10:39:29 GMT -5
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Post by Orao on Jul 5, 2009 11:14:38 GMT -5
Well now a resolution, which was written by a Lithuanian equates the roles of the USSR with Nazi Germany in starting WWII.
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