Both Germany and the Soviet Union invaded Poland in 1939, but the Allies only declared war on Germany

In 1939 an expansionist Germany invaded Poland with the aim of creating more Lebensraum for the German people. But this was only after Germany and the Soviet Union had formed a pact (the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact) to divide Poland between them, which was signed on the 23rd August 1939.

Two days later, on the 25th of August 1939 (a week before the war started), the United Kingdom and Poland signed an agreement in which it states:

ARTICLE I.

Should one of the Contracting Parties become engaged in hostilities with a European Power in consequence of aggression by the latter against that Contracting Party, the other Contracting Party will at once give the Contracting Party engaged in hostilities all the support and assistance in its power.

The text full text of the agreement can be found here on Wikisource.

On the 17th of September, less than 3 weeks after the Germans had invaded Poland, the Soviet Union (a European Power) also invaded Poland.

When Edward Raczyński the Polish Ambassador to Britain asked for the same treatment to be given to the Soviet Union as was given to Germany (a declaration of war), he was told that the treaty did not apply to the Soviet Union because of a secret clause in the agreement:

(a) By the expression “a European Power” employed in the Agreement is to be understood Germany. (b) In the event of action within the meaning of Article 1 or 2 of the Agreement by a European Power other than Germany, the Contracting Parties will consult together on the measures to be taken in common.

This clause means that should Germany invade, Britain has an obligation to declare war on Germany, but should any other power invade, then this is left to mutual agreement between both parties. It is clear that Poland was in favour of a declaration of war, but Britain was not interested in doing so.

If there was an adherence to the spirit of the treaty, then the Soviet Union should have also been declared war on. Objectively looking at the evidence, we can see that Germany and the Soviet Union had conspired together to both:

  • Declared war on and invaded the Polish nation
  • Annex Polish territory into their own country

So why should Germany be treated with a declaration of war and the Soviet Union not.

That’s hypocrisy.

To make the hypocrisy even worse:

  • On the 30th of November 1939, the Soviet Union invaded Finland.
  • There was no declaration of war from the Allies.
  • On the 15th of June 1940, the Soviet Union invaded and annexed Lithuania.
  • There was no declaration of war from the Allies.
  • On the 16th of June 1940, the Soviet Union invaded and annexed Latvia.
  • There was no declaration of war from the Allies.
  • Also on the 16th of June 1940, the Soviet Union invaded and annexed Estonia.
  • There was no declaration of war from the Allies.

It should be clear to anyone that the Soviet Union was just as large a threat to the independence of states as Germany was. If Poland had been left to fall with no declaration of war from the Allies, then the list of subjugated states in Europe would be as follows:

  1. Austria
  2. Czechoslovakia
  3. Poland

At this point, Germany and the Soviet Union would have had a direct land border to each other, both with large armies that could have been used to deter the other from upsetting the balance of power in Europe.

Instead, the Allies decided to go down the route taking on the Germans on their own, and when that didn’t work they started helping the Soviet Union defeat Germany at all costs, which led to the subjugation of the whole of eastern Europe. The list of subjugated nations is as follows:

  1. Czechoslovakia
  2. Poland
  3. Hungary
  4. Romania
  5. Bulgaria
  6. Lithuania
  7. Latvia
  8. Estonia
  9. East Germany

From these lists, we can see that the only nation that was actually liberated because of the declaration of war in September 1939 by the Allies was Austria.

Poland was most definitely not liberated, Poland was a puppet state of the Soviet Union. This is clear from the evidence that both the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 and the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968 were both brutally put down by the Soviet Union. Both nations wanted to break free from Soviet subjugation, but neither were allowed to have greater freedom.

Both Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union were as evil as each other. If the Allies were smart they would have engineered a situation where both sides fought and bled each other white. After they had finished doing that they would have been able to sweep in and pick up all the pieces. The Cold War where East and West pointed 10,000’s of nuclear warheads at each other would have never happened.

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