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More than 70 years have passed since World War II, but the interpretation of historical issues will always reflect the shadow of realpolitik. As for the reasons for the outbreak of World War II, there has recently been a "Soviet-German common theory". On December 20, St. Petersburg time, Putin refuted this statement at a press conference.
Earlier, the European Parliament passed a resolution accusing the Soviet-German Non-Aggression Pact of 1939 as the trigger for World War II. In this regard, Putin believes that a series of agreements signed by Britain, France and other countries with Nazi Germany earlier are the key reasons for really encouraging the Nazis to start war. In other words, Anglo-French appeasement was in the front, while the Soviet Union was only "the last country to sign a treaty with Hitler."
The West could not tolerate its own popular adoration of the Soviet Union during World War II
Putin also said the European Parliament passed the resolution to downplay the Soviet Union's contribution to the victory in World War II and shift responsibility for World War II to the Soviet Union, and today's Russia.
In fact, many Eastern European countries began de-Sovietization after the Cold War, and large numbers of symbols such as the Monument to the Red Army of the Soviet Union were demolished. Putin called it an insult to historical memory, and that these countries did so to hide the fact that European leaders at the time colluded with Nazi Germany.
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Putin's remarks should have been widely accepted, but this is not the case. Objectively speaking, the Soviet-German non-aggression pact did contribute to Nazi Germany's launch of World War II, but at the same time, it should be noted that there are also many historical factors behind the joint partition of Poland between the Soviet Union and Germany.
After World War I, Poland invaded a large part of German territory and invaded Germany with France in 1923, which is known as the Ruhr Crisis. Similarly, after the establishment of the Soviet Union, Poland also sent troops to interfere in the internal affairs of the Soviet Union, trying to destroy this nascent country, the result was naturally not much better, if it were not for Piłsudski's efforts to turn the tide under the city of Warsaw, then Poland would have ceased to exist.
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It can be seen that the division of Poland between the Soviet Union and Germany has deep historical reasons, which are similar to the reasons for the outbreak of World War II. French Marshal Fouchy, who led France to win the First World War, once commented on the Treaty of Versailles, the armistice agreement of the First World War: This is not peace, it is a 20-year truce.
The First World War was a war fought by the imperialists over the problem of sharing the spoils, but the problem of sharing the spoils was not fundamentally resolved, so the outbreak of The Second World War occurred. But it is clear that the Western countries do not recognize this.
Poles remember the Katyn massacre, but forget to interfere in the internal affairs of the Soviet Union
Germany after the First World War was the vicious dog that Britain and France had raised against the Soviet Union, so to some extent, it can be considered that the existence of the Soviet Union was the cause of the Soviet-German war, but it was only the direct cause and not the root cause, and the fundamental cause was the partial imbalance within imperialism. There is a saying that all history is modern history, and it is clear that people in Western Europe are using smear tactics to compete with Russia for the right to explain who was the biggest contributor to the victory in World War II.
In the current time, credit does not equal the right to speak, and the right to speak determines the credit
According to a survey conducted by the French pollsters, in response to the question "Which country played a decisive role in the victory over Nazi Germany", in 1945 57% of French people thought it was the Soviet Union and 20% thought it was the United States; in 2015, 54% of the French thought it was the United States and 23% thought it was the Soviet Union.
It can be seen that the hegemony of the West, especially the United States, has had a far-reaching impact on the world.