Russia's PM Putin makes a speech at Westerplatte, during ceremonies marking the anniversary of Nazi Germany's invasion of Poland Photo: REUTERS
If one recalls the first International Olympic Games was in Germany under the Hitler regime. The Nazis had a facade while it reconstituted a military that would seek to dominate an entire planet.
Russia was not alone in believing the deception, many a NATO country acted in friendship with a reborn Germany.
Russia never allied with Hitler. Russia ultimately found the first of the 'Death Camps' of Nazi Germany. Russia secured a complete war front alone from Hitler and enabled the beginnings of the Allied victory.
...Mr Putin supplied the context as he saw it. Poland struck a pact with Germany five years before the USSR cosied up to Hitler, he recalled. And of course Great Britain and France concluded the now notorious Munich Agreement. All this, he explained, meant plans for a European anti-Nazi alliance were sunk. In a tight spot, the USSR concluded a pact Mr Putin admits was immoral. But then who didn't?...
It is time to end The Cold War.
Putin extols Poland's World War II bravery (click here)
Published: Sept. 3, 2009 at 12:33 PM
SOPOT, Poland, Sept. 3 (UPI) -- Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin marked World War II's 70th anniversary in Poland by praising Polish soldiers and citizens for their wartime bravery.
"Russia has always respected the bravery and heroism of the Polish people, soldiers and officers, who stood up first against Nazism in 1939," Putin said during a meeting with Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk in the Baltic Sea resort town of Sopot.
Tusk said Putin's visit reflected a growing spirit of cooperation despite remaining differences....
