Temat: 'It isn't our country any more.'

Rafal Wolk:
"Answer
The official reason was to protect Poland. Since both Britain and France had treaty obligations to aid Poland, they declared war upon Germany two days after Germany had invaded Poland."

Call me old fashion, but my understanding of war is, well... war, Sitzkrieg is a bit of a... I'd say something of a strategy that didn't quite lived up to the promise. Same goes for France. I do understand - England had a very small army and was not ready for a full out war... but standing at the Maginot Line staring at the enemy with two armies and waving fists around and dropping flyers didn't help much.

Same happened in 1944 when allies, let nazis kill over 200 000 citizens of Warsaw in 63 days, just to make Stalin a happy camper.

It's the history game you see. Like I said. No one's a winner. It's just a game. Full of maybe's and should/ would have's.

Let's just say that anyone can look at anything that happened and add their own colouring. Where's the truth? When does your perspective meet what actually happened? Do we know what actually happened. Do we know why it happened? These are more interesting questions. Questions with no answers.

Temat: 'It isn't our country any more.'

You are correct, nothing in history is ever black and white, a lot of "gray" areas. There are always two sides to each story, this one had three... unfortunately Poland was not in favor at that time. Looking at any conflict from a perspective of people in charge, the main goal is to protect citizens of it's country. England and France did just that, regroup, rethink, come up with a strategy and then act. This way of conducting it, led to Poland becoming this black hole on the map, where people from all over Europe just disappeared into, to face unimaginable horrors for 6 long years. Right after, it was up to UK, US and the greatest threat to peace and progress (which was no secret even then) to decide the fate of people who suffered so much already and bled so much for freedoms of all nations hoping that in the end justice would be served. As we say in Poland "Mazenia scietej glowy".