Re: ] Don’t Know Much About History

good catch!

Soviet forces attacked Poland on 17 September. It was agreed that the
USSR would relinquish its interest in the territories between the new
border and Warsaw in exchange for inclusion of Lithuania in the Soviet
"zone of interest".
Poland was divided among Germany, the Soviet Union, and Slovakia.
Lithuania received the city of Wilno.

According to the Polish Institute of National Remembrance, Soviet
occupation between 1939 and 1941 resulted in the death of 150,000 and
deportation of 320,000 of Polish citizens,[78][79] when all who were
deemed dangerous to the Soviet regime were subject to sovietization,
forced resettlement, imprisonment in labor camps (the Gulags) or
murdered, like the Polish officers in the Katyn massacre.

The invasion of Poland led to Britain and France to declare war on
Germany on 3 September. However, they did little to affect the outcome
of the September Campaign. This lack of direct help led many Poles to
believe that they had been betrayed by their Western allies.

On Dec 2, 5:25 am, Bruce Majors <majors.br...@gmail.com> wrote:
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>
> From The Volokh Conspiracy website
>
> From the first sentence about World War II in All About World
> History (1999), a history book for children:
>
> In 1939, Hitler (see below) sent armies to invade Czechoslovakia and
> Poland; Britain, France, and Russia decided to help the Czech and Polish
> people defend their lands.
>
> I did not know that! In fact, I still don't. Yikes.
>
> How did that ever get past the proofreaders -- unless they were Russian!
> Nick
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