Why UK & France dont declared war to russians?, when they attacked Poland

MMM,

the post you are replying to belongs to a Banned member and he cannot reply your question.

However, it is not right - banned or not - that definitely wrong and tendentious oppinions should remain unchallenged...

This post has been edited by MMM on January 19, 2009 05:03 pm

Just don't expect a reply from him.

I agree with you, but I don't see why a key event in world history couldn't/shouldn't be called "screwed up" if that's how that person feels about it.

Really? I guess this is the reason for which "that person" was banned, right? I hope you posted that just for the sake of argument, not because you'd agree that France and USSR shared an ideology at that time... This would be screwed!

Really? I guess this is the reason for which "that person" was banned, right? I hope you posted that just for the sake of argument, not because you'd agree that France and USSR shared an ideology at that time... This would be screwed!

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The banned person called the French Revolution a "screwed up revolution" and you replied saying that the "screwed up revolution" is a key moment in history. Then I replied to your statement. I said nothing about the USSR.

To conclude it, I guess the only correct answer would be that UK+France were already at war with Germany and didn't feel the need to declare it against the Soviets - plus the fact that Poland had been crushed so fast (Blietzkrieg, huh?) that they haven't had the time to react. One cannot suspect yet the idea of defeating Germany with SU help - not in September 1939, however. After the war, many things were either changed or put aside (never mentioned), as history had to be rewritten on all sides.

You have also to consider that in all reality there was very little chance for the U.K. and France to launch attacks on Soviet Russia, once Norway, Sweden* & Finland came under the German sphere of influence.

* Sweden was very pro-German, despite their so called Neutral stance.

France and Britain were also very badly equipped, manpower & military wise to have been in any position to take on Russia and Germany at the same time. Any attempt to go against Russia would have been a valuable waste of resources.

Despite whatever treaty's were signed pre-WW2, in all practicality they were to prove untenable in the course of events.

Kevin in Deva.

Now, that WAS the "special touch" of both Soviet and German diplomacies (?) - the disregard towards all the treaties, so one shouldn't worry too much about all this diplomatic aspect!

Now, that WAS the "special touch" of both Soviet and German diplomacies (?) - the disregard towards all the treaties, so one shouldn't worry too much about all this diplomatic aspect!

The disregard for treaty's signed by the British & French to aid countries like Czechoslovakia and Poland, is quite often thrown up in modern day arguments by people who have no idea of the true situation back in the 1930's and 1940's.
Their mentality is like children in a school playground "but, you promised to help me. . . "

The same mentality can be said to infest of people who have been raised in countries that were penalized for their part in WW1 or WW2, and today feel like they are owed something.

Kevin in Deva.

This post has been edited by New Connaught Ranger on February 26, 2009 02:10 pm

Do you mean I feel I owe something? You gotta be kidding (yourself )! I was just stating the fact that both Germany and USSR made a point from actively disrespecting the treaties which they signed at their own will. This has nothing to do with my nationality - or do you know something I don't? I don't feel infested yet.

No MMM

I was making no personal reference to you, just too some arguments that have been put online, as for example:- " Polands fate being the fault of the British & French for not coming to save them from the Germans".

Kevin in Deva.

Definitely NOT! Poland's fault (if any other fault than geography...) was to trust Hitler, then to bite from Czechoslovakia as well. The really interesting thing is the result of ww2 for Poland: after4 it supposedly started over it, Poland was all but erased, with almost 10 million deaths, then translated to west, then made Popular Republic. The only "gain" was the access to the Baltic Sea.

MMM,

From memory, the British and French guarantees were directed only towards a German aggression. This is why the Romanian officials weren't too exalted about them since their main concern in 1938-39 was a Soviet aggression.

Not really - the guarantees were TERITORIAL. But it's much more complicated. Gh. Buzatu, in his last book, has unveiled some new documents on that: "Romania sub imperiul haosului", 2007.