A whole two posts ago I was wondering what the deal was in Poland.
The Poles are commemorating the beginning of WWII.
The US, France and GB aren't going to be there but Russia and Germany is. So "Us" is not there but "Them" is. Weird. But it makes sense, they don't have their feckless allies from WWII (GB, FR) and the current, missile-defensively feckless ally (US) there.
So anyway, now we have Tsar Putin I blaming WWII on, well let's let him tell us
Moscow's deal with Hitler was "immoral," Vladimir Putin wrote... (You can smell the "but" coming, can't you?V) But he also blamed other European nations for leaving the Soviet Union to face Nazi Germany alone.

I've been reading Churchill's history of WWII for about a year or so. I keep putting it down, it's dense.
But he said Stalin said the same thing constantly. Which was pretty funny considering Russia and Germany had a deal on how to split up Poland that kicked off the Phony War, Russia waited until Germany killed the Polish army before invading and sold Germany all kinds of war-related materials like rubber while Churchill and the Brits were fighting for their lives.
Churchill practically begged Stalin to stop but got nowhere.

After Hitler invaded the USSR, Stalin wanted the Brits to invade the next day.
After helping Hitler kick the Brits off and take the whole continent. now it's the USSR who was "fighting alone". Oh woe is me.

Anway.
I do have to agree with this
Without a doubt there are full grounds to condemn the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact of August 1939. But after all, a year earlier France and England signed a well-known agreement with Hitler in Munich, destroying all hope for the creation of a joint front for the fight against fascism," Putin wrote.

Well, except that Stalin wasn't really interested in a "Joint front for the fight against fascism" until Hitler invaded. Before that? Well, encouraging and trading with him and giving him intelligence and screwing Britain kept them kind of too busy to do much jointly fronting.

And the laugher for the night
Yet Putin also struck a conciliatory note with Poland—a former Soviet satellite-turned European Union member—saying that the grief caused by the 1940 murder of more than 20,000 Polish prisoners of war by the Soviet NKVD struck a cord with the average Soviet citizen, who also suffered under totalitarianism.

Yeah, it was the mean, old commies like the NKVD, not the KGB.
According to wikipedia, he was stationed in East Germany.
Not really a hotbed of espionage and murder and stuff, right? East Germany didn't anything like the Stasi..... oh yeah.

So we have an KGB agent from East Germany (for a good documentary about it, watch Top Secret) explaining how it was the bad commies who did bad things to them, not the nice, new totally non-commie Empire of Tsar Put... errr..uhhhh... The Peaceloving new Russia.

I say we all pinky swear now that whoever gets France and Belgium in this war has to keep them.
Okay?

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