Battle of the Third Reich Chapter 292: Border

The border between the Soviet Union and Germany in the European part is very clear, and there is no territorial dispute between the two countries.

It is actually very simple to say, most of this border line crosses Polish territory, and the spoils-sharing agreement usually does not leave many loopholes for both parties.

Many people don’t know that this dividing line that cut Poland in half was actually first proposed by an Englishman.

After the end of World War I, with the support of the Allied Powers, Poland regained its status as an independent country.

Don’t think that the Allied Powers are presiding over "justice." That dirty war has nothing to do with this word from beginning to end.

The independence of Polish territory will only deal a blow to the three old empires, namely Prussia, Austria-Hungary and Tsarist Russia. Originally, Tsarist Russia belonged to the Allied Powers, so as long as Nicholas II is still in power, the so-called Poland issue should not be included in the Paris Peace Conference. The problem is that the Romanov dynasty has been overthrown and the family of the Russian tsar was killed. At this time, it was the Soviet regime holding the red flag that controlled the country.

So Poland became a bridgehead for Western countries to resist the expansion of the Red Soviets to Europe, and the Second Republic of Poland, which thought it was supported by the Allies, rapidly expanded its nationalist forces. Polish elites were no longer satisfied Having gained the status of an independent country, they also want to regain the glory that their ancestors once lost.

I really have to admire the ambitions of the Poles. They not only want to restore the territories once ruled in Poland’s history, but they even have to make an inch of the effort to establish a Polish federation across the Baltic and Black Seas.

So taking advantage of the weakness and chaos of the Red Soviet at the beginning of its founding, Poland challenged the nascent Soviet Union, and the Polish army crossed the borderline of western Russia that had been blurred because of World War I.

The Polish army, which initially received a large amount of foreign military aid, is making rapid progress. Some of the great Polish soldiers are invincible. They soon occupied large areas of Lithuania, Ukraine and Belarus, and even once captured the capital of Ukraine, Kiev.

Because the main force of the Soviet Red Army was held back by the domestic White Russian resistance movement, the Red Army has always been at a disadvantage in the balance of power on the Western Front. But when the White Russian armed forces were completely wiped out, the Red Army immediately shifted its strategic focus to the Western Front, so the proud Poles began to suffer.

In the magnificent Battle of Kiev, the First Cavalry Army under the command of Semyon Budjoni shined brightly and beat the corpses of the Polish and Ukrainian coalition forces across the fields, and the fierce Cossack cavalry swept across Ukraine, thus establishing the first cavalry. The lofty position of the army in the Red Army sequence.

At the same time, the Soviet government launched a propaganda offensive in the country, using the feud of all ethnic groups in Russia against the Poles, calling on all classes in the country to abandon the contradictions in political ideas, and all Russians should work together to defend their sacred homeland.

Let’s not talk about the crimes committed by the Polish army against Slavic civilians during the war. The reputation of the Poles has been unsound as early as the Tsarist era. If you say that the Germans and the Russians are beaten, you might hesitate. There is no need for the government to mobilize hard.

Even after the defeat of the civil war, a large number of White Russian troops scattered in the country, after hearing the government's call, resolutely joined the Red Army, asking their superiors to give them a chance to fight to the death with the despicable Polish bastards.

Once the fighting nation fell into a state of bloodthirsty fanaticism, how could it be possible to rely on the size of Poland to hold it.

The Soviet Red Army launched an all-out counterattack on a front spanning hundreds of kilometers. Although Poland has a slight advantage in military strength, neither morale nor combat effectiveness can be compared with these veterans of the Red Army. As a result, the Polish coalition forces were defeated steadily. In the end, not only did they lose all the land they had previously occupied, but the Red Army, which was defeated, counterattacked into its own hinterland, and its soldiers even pointed directly at the capital city of Warsaw.

Looking at Poland, which was born a few years ago, is about to die again. The League of Nations, which seems to have disappeared for a long time, finally stood up and called for "peace" in the world.

At the time, the British Prime Minister was the famous David Lloyd George. He was very disgusted with the previous actions of the Poles. At the same time, considering the high public opinion of the left-wing movement in the UK, he refused to provide any form of support to the Polish government.

The then British Foreign Minister Curzon was a famous right-wing politician, an ally of Winston Churchill, and a standard colonialist. He advocated that Britain should provide limited support to Poland in order to block the Red Movement. Spread in Europe.

But as mentioned in the previous article, the left-wing movement in Europe was in its most active period at the time. German and Czech dock workers even refused to load and unload military supplies to Poland. Europe seems to have abandoned Poland.

It was in this situation that Curzon proposed a military ceasefire line, suggesting that the Soviet and Polish parties use this as a temporary border for the time being. The two sides sit down and negotiate, and finally determine a mediation plan acceptable to both parties. At the same time, Curzon threatened that if the Soviet Union ignored Britain's mediation, continued its offensive and crossed this ceasefire line, then Britain would cut off all trade with the Soviet Union.

This kind of threat of foreign power and medium power obviously cannot frighten the real Bolsheviks. The Soviet government, which is on the upper hand, rejected the proposal of the League of Nations and continued to mobilize troops to march toward Warsaw, ready to liberate the "Polish proletariat oppressed by capitalists ".

However, due to various strategic and tactical reasons, such as the misjudgment of the current situation by the top leaders, the underestimation of the military strategy, Poland and France have signed a military alliance and received a large amount of material support, and the communication system between the various Red Army troops In the end, the Red Army suffered a tragic defeat under Warsaw. Not only was the personnel and equipment suffered heavy losses, the morale of the troops was also seriously affected.

The Polish army that got a respite and carried out a national mobilization, after acquiring a large number of French weapons, its combat effectiveness has not declined, but has become stronger than before the war.

While changing from one to another, the Soviet Red Army retreated on the battlefield, and soon the front was pushed back into Russia. Poland reoccupied the territories they had previously captured, and in the war The Soviet regime, which had almost exhausted the foundations that Tsarist Russia had accumulated, eventually had to propose a truce to Poland.

At this time, Poland is also at the end of the war. Both the financial resources and the source of troops have reached the limit that this country can bear. It is an acceptable choice to retain some of the results in exchange for the end of the war.

Poland seized large areas of territory that originally belonged to Belarus, Lithuania, and Ukraine. The Soviet Union recognized its failure and established a new border with Poland.

Some scholars said that this war determined the direction of European history in the next two decades. The leaders of the Soviets abandoned their attempts to set off a revolutionary wave in Europe and shifted their focus from external expansion to internal affairs. The ambition became more swollen, and he began to constantly provoke the two extremely powerful enemies around him, laying the roots for their destruction twenty years later.

The Soviet Red Army officers and soldiers captured in the war were consciously tortured and killed by the Polish army. Because of the lack of accurate records at the time, the death toll on the research data ranged from 40,000 to 80,000, although the researchers of later generations There are differences in numbers, but no one can deny the existence of such war crimes.

Moreover, in the occupied Soviet territory, the Poles and the puppet troops everywhere inflicted chilling atrocities on civilians who were biased towards the Soviets, and the cruelty even surpassed that of the Japanese army twenty years later.

Finally, after the Soviet Union and Germany partitioned Poland, the **** massacre was secretly staged in the Katyn Forest, and the victims became Polish officers who surrendered. Stalin’s revenge was fierce and thorough, directly cutting off the foundation of the Polish elite ~ IndoMTL.com~ If you count from age, those senior military officers over forty years old are likely to be directly involved in the atrocities of the year. There is a hand in the underworld that drew a circle in the course of history.

Although the Soviet-Polish War ended with the victory of Poland, the Curzon Line did not disappear in the world. When Germany and the Soviet Union planned to divide Poland, the Curzon Line became a border acceptable to both sides.

The Soviet Union not only regained the territories occupied by Poland, but also returned to the ceasefire line they had reached 20 years ago. On the contrary, Nazi Germany, the main force in the destruction of Poland, naturally annexed the remaining half, leaving aside the ideas of the Poles. Not to mention, this is indeed a fairly fair share plan.

Of course, this border division cannot copy the Curzon Line of the year. Because of the differences in the composition of the residents in the territory, some minor changes have been made in the middle, but the general direction is almost copied this dividing line.

At this moment, both the Soviet Union and Germany, which are close to this border, are stepping up the construction of various permanent or semi-permanent fort positions. At the same time, a secret war of infiltration and reverse infiltration is also in full swing on this border. The progress.

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