Russia’s Reset and Central Europe (2)
Arvamus | 25 Apr 2011  | EWR OnlineEWR
Edward Lucas
Nobody looking at Poland’s relationship with Russia over the past few centuries would counsel policymakers in Warsaw to adopt a sanguine attitude towards the East. From the partitions of Poland in the late 18th century to the crushing of the 1863 uprising against Tsarist autocracy, to the Red Army’s march on the infant Second Republic (foiled by the Miracle of the Vistula in 1920), to the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact of 1939 which divided Poland between the Nazi and Soviet empires, to the Katyn massacre in 1940 and the Soviet-backed imposition of martial law in 1981, the list is so long and so tragic that pathological historical trauma seems the normal and inevitable response.

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?27 Apr 2011 09:53
Katyn II26 Apr 2011 13:55
Why does every article by Lucas make one feel that he is being hoodwinked? With subtle manipulation, Lucas tries to appear like a neutral observer, yet he always champions eu/zionist interests. Isn't it wonderful that Tusk, (friend of the eu and Putin) is now the unchallenged leader of Poland with the deaths of 93 Polish nationalists at Katyn II. (for Lucas " dozens of senior Polish officials")
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