Anniversary of the Nazi and russian non-aggression pact.
Today in our calendar we will look at the direct origin of the outbreak of planet War II, the agreement of the 3rd Reich with the russian Union.
In the second half of the 1930s. Joseph Stalin, with prerogatives greater than the erstwhile Tsars, began preparing his country for a fresh war. For this reason, he first wanted to get free of an uncomfortable and allegedly disobedient component from the army. As a consequence of the cleaning conducted between 1937 and 1938, hundreds of the most experienced officers, specified as Marshal Mikhail Tuchaszewski, were killed. At the same time, border areas were cleared from the "uncertain social element" to form the basis for the invasion to the west.
Such an component was considered, among others, to be Poles from Belarus and Ukraine, whose thousands were murdered within the alleged framework. Polish operation NKVD. The strategy of GUŁAG labour camps was constantly expanded, where millions of ZSRS citizens were imprisoned, usually for trivial, or imaginary crimes. The agent and terrorists on the Polish side were constantly sent. Hidden militias were besides formed in Poland to start fighting local authorities at the time of the russian invasion.
W Moscow was trained for future elites for fresh russian republics to spill around the world. As part of the fresh preparations for the war, the Soviets began to pretend to be afraid about the increasing threat from the 3rd Reich. They went out to the Western Allies to offer help. It was to trust on the support of Polish troops by the Red Army. Stalin knew perfectly well that Poland would never agree to enter his army over the Vistula River. Poles perfectly remembered who the Bolsheviks were and, of course, rejected this form of “help”.
Of course, all these treatments were observed by Germans who tried to get out of the wedge and to guarantee freedom of movement on the east flank. They knew that in the event of an attack on France, Poland would aid it, while in the case of Poland, France did not. Therefore, Poland became the first target, but it was inactive the Soviets to gain, so that without wasting time it could safely shift their forces to the west. Hitler sent his abroad minister Joachim von Ribbentrop to Moscow.
There, on August 23, 1939, a non-aggression pact was signed, called the Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact. In the secret Appendix to the Agreement, the Parties have set limits to their spheres of influence in Central Europe. Poland was initially divided in half, while the Soviets agreed to take the Baltic States, Finland and Romania's Besarabia.
The loop around the Polish neck was tightening. Having learned about the German-Soviet arrangement, the British signed a full-size alliance treaty from the Second Polish Republic on August 25. This caused Hitler to postpone the invasion by a fewer days. The popular mobilization, ordered by president Mościcki on 30 August, was postponed by 1 day at the request of the ambassadors of large Britain and France, by which Polish troops started a war in part-members, and their completion took place already during the chaos of reverse fights.
Even in view of London and Paris' sole self-interest, it was a completely irrational movement, resulting in a weakening of Polish resistance.
Previous entry from our calendar is available Here.
