Comments by "Alan Pennie" (@alanpennie8013) on "Did Poland bring on her own Destruction in 1939 because of her Aggressive Foreign Policy?" video.

  1.  @CloneDAnon  It didn't. When Ribbentrop asked the Poles to join The Anti - Comintern Pact they turned him down.
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  2. The principle of moving the people to conform to the borders (ethnic cleansing) was first accepted in The Treaty of Lausanne (1923).
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  3. Plus the Soviets had killed around 100,000 Poles less than two years earlier.
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  4. The bugler of Cracow nods.
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  5.  @matej2733  The ghost of "faraway" Neville Chamberlain has never been laid.
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  6. He's an interesting guy to be sure. Someone published his memoirs during The Cold War, but sadly they were a forgery.
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  7. Chamberlain had a best - case scenario and a fall back position. Best case: Hitler would not seek any territory in Europe but would be bought off with colonies in Africa. Fall back. Hitler would seek to incorporate the ethnic Germans on the Eastern frontier but wouldn't pursue a wider Lebensraum policy.
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  8. That was the British assessment. They were very doubtful that the Red Army could give Poland effective assistance.
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  9. That is a good point. And there was a near certainty that an Anglo - Soviet alliance would lead to a German - Japanese alliance in response. Both The UK and The USSR had good reason for not wanting an alliance.
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  10.  @petriew2018  It's, "If my grandmother had wheels she'd be a bicycle" logic.
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  11. The Dawes/Young revisions and The Locarno Treaty were a strategic disaster for the French. They made it impossible to hobble Germany with reparations, and they left Poland and Czechoslovakia vulnerable to German irredentism.
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  12.  @AgendaFiles  They refused to make the payments demanded under the much higher 1921 schedule. Hence The Ruhr Crisis of 1923, which culminated in a French defeat.
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  13.  @AgendaFiles  Schuker is the authority I follow about reparations. It's a very complex topic and not many people understand it.
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  14. Charles Feinstein and Gerald Feldman are worth a read. And Niall Ferguson has some interesting comments in his, Pity of War. I know Ferguson is a doofus but he does know about banking.
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  15. Horatio82. Good point. This atrocity makes The Polish refusal to accept a Soviet security guarantee a good deal more understandable.
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  16.  @fiatlux4058  It was perfectly rational. The Whites were Russian imperialists. The Bolsheviks were preferable since they weren't. Mensheviks or SRs would have been even better but you have to play the hand you're dealt.
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  17.  @fiatlux4058  I'm exactly bright enough.
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  18.  @ee9117  The French really did consider Poland to be an ally, but at the same time wouldn't go to war to defend it. True in 1772, also true in 1939.
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