Putin:"Poland has forgotten that the Poland territories were a gift from Stalin, but that Russia will remind Poland of it" Wow, I think we need to re-educate Russian. - Video
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Apparently, Poland’s territories were a gift? And Apparently Poland should now be grateful for it and help Russia or something? Anybody help with Putin’s logic here?

  • Jeena@jemmy.jeena.netEnglish
    72·
    1 year ago

    I get the feeling that the hatred of him is so big that people don’t remember history and don’t read exactly what he said and then fight straw-men on the internet.

    So he is talking about Prussia and Silesia. After Germany lost WW2 they had to give up 1/4th of it’s territory. This part became west Poland.

    Poland had to give up east Poland which became part of Ukraine later.

    Now with this background information we can discuss if taking Prussia and Silesia from Germany and giving it to Poland is a gift or not. We can discuss if Poland could have held on to it’s east border or not after WW2.