An interesting article on Russian official view of WW2

[David Powelstock]

Yes, that's what I was taught in history classes, and it's precisely the
narrative that Kovalev is trying to deny. But I was commenting on the
self-contradiction in Kovalev's argument: he's trying to have his cake and
eat it, too. 

David Powelstock


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That's probably what Kremlin had expected: world division into two  
with the Wicked Ogre of the West and the Wicked Ogre of the East  
dividing the spoils. Otherwise why send a congratulatory telegram  
(from Molotov/Stalin to Hitler) on the fall of Poland?

<Под совместными ударами германских и советских войск рухнула Польша,  
уродливое детище Версальского мирного договора>. В архиве германского  
МИДа сохранились поздравительные телеграммы Молотова по случаю взятия  
вермахтом Варшавы и Парижа. (http://www.day.kiev.ua/199013/)


David Powelstock wrote:
 >  So, if the Poles had
 > acceded to that, Hitler's declared goal (since 1925, as Kovalev  
himself
 > notes) of invading Russia would have just gone away?


Alina Israeli
Associate Professor of Russian
LFS, American University
4400 Massachusetts Ave.
Washington DC 20016
(202) 885-2387 	fax (202) 885-1076
aisrael at american.edu





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