Russian TV says Poland planned WWII

26th June 2009

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Poland planned to invade the Soviet Union, according to a report on Russian State Television this week.


According to the broadcast, Poland had signed a secret pact with Nazi Germany to attack the Soviet Union.

Citing documents Moscow says it has yet to be made public, the broadcast claims to ‘prove’ that Poland had conspired with the Nazis and with Japan to invade the USSR’s eastern borders.

The Ribbentrop-Molotow pact, which effectively sealed Poland’s fate, says the report, was a necessity and that Molotow had signed it unwillingly in order to protect the USSR from Polish ‘aggression’. The report also says that it helped the USSR regain its lands earlier seized by Pola ...