Includes pictures Includes contemporary accounts of the massacre and its discovery Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading Includes a table of contents It has been suggested that the motive for this terrible step was to reassure the Germans as to the reality of Soviet anti-Polish policy.
This explanation is completely unconvincing in view of the care with which the Soviet regime kept the massacre secret from the very German government it was supposed to impress.
A more likely explanation is that the massacre] should be seen as looking forward to a future in which there might again be a Poland on the Soviet Union's western border.
Since he intended to keep the eastern portion of the country in any case, Stalin could be certain that any revived Poland would be unfriendly.
Under those circumstances, depriving it of a large proportion of its military and technical elite would make it weaker.
- Gerhard Weinberg During the late 1930s the Soviet Union under Josef Stalin and the Third Reich under Adolf Hitler reached a secret alliance, the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact.
By the terms of this agreement, the two dictators divided up Eastern Europe between them, and for a time Stalin even sought Axis membership.
Though the alliance forged between the fascist and communist states could not survive their diametrically opposed views, they cooperated long enough to conquer Poland together in 1939.
Of course, as most people now know, the invasion of Poland was merely the preface to the Nazi blitzkrieg of most of Western Europe, which would include Denmark, Belgium, and France by the summer of 1940.
The resistance put up by these countries is often portrayed as weak, and the narrative is that the British stood alone in 1940 against the Nazi onslaught, defending the British Isles during the Battle of Britain and preventing a potential German invasion.
In particular, the campaign in Poland is remembered as one in which an antiquated Polish army was quickly pummele.
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