An interesting article on Russian official view of WW2

[Mark Nuckols]

The world had just seen that the Nazis would not be satisfied with the Sudetenland after they marched into Prague in mid-March of 1939. No thinking person at the time believed Hitler would have been appeased by a land corridor to East Prussia; to make such a claim retrospectively is an incredible piece of affrontery. Or maybe the Poles should have forestalled the inevitable by a few more months?

 

A Polish response can be found at http://wyborcza.pl/1,75248,6693960,Bluznierstwo_wobec_Polakow.html. The author indicates at the end that the Russian defense ministry distanced itself from Kovalev's conclusions.



Mark Nuckols 




 

> Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2009 22:24:15 -0400
> From: pstock at BRANDEIS.EDU
> Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] An interesting article on Russian official view of WW2
> To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu
> 
> Kovalev's piece is a logical train wreck. (It seems to have been taken down
> from the official site now.) The giveaway moment, imo, is the contradiction
> between his many references to Hitler's longstanding designs on Russia and
> his assertion that Germany's desire to build a highway and rail line from
> Berlin to Eastern Prussia was reasonable and benign. 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? This quite apart from
> the presumptuousness of asserting that Poland should have just given away
> their sovereignty and saved all of Europe in the process. Maybe if Russia
> had just surrendered to Hitler, the same result could have been achieved?
> It's so easy to give away what doesn't belong to you.
> 
> David Powelstock
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list
> [mailto:SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Maria Dmytriyeva
> Sent: Friday, June 05, 2009 4:20 AM
> To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu
> Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] An interesting article on Russian official view of
> WW2
> 
> > Dear colleagues,
> > Just to let you know about an interesting article published today in 
> > "Daily Telegraph" on re-writing history in Russia titled "Russia 
> > accuses Poland of starting Second World War":
> >
> http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/5445161/Russia-accus
> es-Poland-of-starting-Second-World-War.html
> 
> In case anybody needs the original text issued by the Ministry of Defense it
> can be found here:
> 
> http://www.mil.ru/files/Vimisli_o_roli_SSSR.rtf
> 
> With best regards,
> Maria
> 
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