So from this “analysis” we learned that Poland is the one to blame for both German and Soviet attacks on Poland. If there is a robber on the streets and you somehow trust him not to take away your possessions and your assessment turns out to be wrong, than shame on you. When another robber attacks you while you are fighting the first one, the blame on other robber’s actions is also on you. When those two robbers have secretly planned to share your possessions, you are still the one to blame. Other people, who might or might not known about the secret pact to share your possessions and did not condemn in are also culprits. When the first robber was beaten by the second one, he takes also some blame, but the second robber is innocent, a hero! Every day, when Russian state and media keeps on justifying Soviet Union crimes and pointing the blame on everyone else, is a tragic day.

Another pseudo-historian. Who was responsible for Polish tragedy? Only Germans....? Polish policy was responsible for Soviet invasion on Poland?? The fact is that it was not Poland who was the invader but Germany and Soviet Union. Stalin was afraid that Hitler take over everything for himself and therefore he could not let it happen.

Ms. Narochnitskaya grown hideous propaganda - mocking the historical facts. Poles and the Russians may be different interpretation of the facts, but, in the name of decency, do not lie! USSR and Germany, before the attack on Poland, did not have a common border. So what Stalin was afraid of Hitler? Explanation that a pact Ribbentrop - Molotov would protect Soviet Union against attack from Germans is a fable for the gullible Westerners, who know little about the realities of contemporary Central and Eastern Europe. Indisputable truth is that Poland was a tasty morsel for the hungry of the then Imperial Russia and Russia took the opportunity to erase from the map of Europe the problem, which was Poland. The Soviet Union was a murderous totalitarian dictatorship, that killed hundreds of thousands of Russians, Poles and other conquered nations. It's a great shame and a sin which can not be erase from your history so manipulated by the story, as did Mrs. Narochnitskaya. How can You do that? It's so sad and degrading.

Funny women. Funny , indoctrinated profesor. Well, everybody knows that 17 of September was a 2nd part of WWII. Stalin wants to issue his plan of socialism for western Europe. That's all. She said about tragedy - it was KAtyn, Harkov and so on. 50' in Poland when tousands of people gose to prisons and łagrs. We never forget!

I cannot improve upon previous commentary, but using the dismal analogy of the aftermath of our present economic crisis, and when it was logical that Poland would be next after the Sudetenland, none of the Western powers reached deeply to the purse of their national conscience to protect her and deliver an immediate & expensive "bail-out"(spelled commitment). The future demands that we abandon tired polemic when the perpetrator(s) have already identified and found guilty without exception in the world's eyes; unless, you have a "smoking gun, " Professor "N", stop blaming the victims...

lorenzen - yes stop blaming the victims, stop blaming Russia.

I tried to find one nation which has borders with Poland in 1939 and who can be considered as a friend with Poland. I did not find it. (Period after the death of Pilsudski) But I found only hositility. We may have to search for the reasons.

Obviously the Treaty between Germany and Soviet Union facilitated the German attack on Poland a few days later. But Stalin was just to greedy to wait a couple more months and get hold of the parts of Poland he anyhow wished to integrate into the USSR. By signing the treaty, Salin was also feeling safer towards the Baltic States, which he got "in the change".. so it is not all about Poland at all. There were more victims involved and these baltic territories and the free hand for a war with Finland led Stalin to accept a signature concerning a german-soviet partionned Poland.