• Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    0
    ·
    17 days ago

    Yes, this was not an agreement to invade jointly, the USSR entered Poland 17 days after the Nazis did. This was the Soviet Union providing a “no-go” line for the Nazis in the event of Nazi invasion, largely including areas Poland had invaded and annexed from Lithuania and Ukraine a couple decades prior.

    • RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      0
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      17 days ago

      This was them dividing the country between them for when the war was concluded. Unless we pretend we don’t know what this means

      In the event of a territorial and political rearrangement of the areas belonging to the Polish state,