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I regret those exaggerated last six words "...and opening the way to WWII." It would have been better to at least add these words to the phrase: ...and opening the way to the beginning of WWII warfare. Or better to just leave off those last six words. On Sun, Mar 1, 2015 at 5:57 PM, Dayne Goodwin <daynegood...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Mar 1, 2015 at 3:06 PM, Ken Hiebert via Marxism > <marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote: > . . . > > Whatever Stalin thought he was achieving at the time, this massacre has > poisoned relations between Russia and Poland for decades. . . > > > Of course it isn't like Russian-Polish relations were rosy before > then. We can start way back before the 1790s partitions that > resulted in Poland being completely wiped off the map, the majority > becoming part of the Russian empire. We can jump forward to the > Poland-Soviet Russia war of 1920-21, followed in later 20s and 30s > with Stalin's pruning and purging of the Communist Party of Poland > until he liquidated the leadership and finally dissolved it in 1938. > This cleared the way for the Stalin-Hitler pact of August 1939 > secretly dividing Poland between Germany and the Soviet Union and > opening the way to WWII. > _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
