At the beginning of September 1939, the Polish people once again ushered in the darkest moment of their lives, and their country perished again. Just now,
The Soviets moved all the way south from Moscow and occupied Western Ukraine and Western Belarus. Poor Poland just like that, in an instant, was dismembered by two bigwigs from the Soviet Union. Poland's leaders want to cry, but this is not the first time they are sorry for their ancestors, and in the history of Poland, there have been three deaths of the country.
What three times did the invincible Poland go through its deaths? After the death of the country, how did Poland come back from the dead again and again? Why is Poland so hateful?
Development of the Kingdom of Poland
Poland, a moderately developed country in Europe, has a developed agricultural and industrial base, and also has the largest number of countries in central Europe, but their territory is not large, only less than 320,000 square kilometers.
In fact, at the peak of Poland in history, the land area once soared to more than 1 million square kilometers, but after hundreds of years of war disputes, the territory has shrunk to the current level, how did Poland do it?
The history of Poland can be traced back to the middle of the 6th century, when the West Slavic primitive commune gradually disintegrated, feudal land ownership appeared, and like ancient China, embarked on the path of feudal state development.
This state system lasted for hundreds of years, and in the middle of the tenth century, the country of Poland was officially named for the first time, which became the most powerful and unified feudal state in Poland.
At the dawn of the thirteenth century, in the far east, a fierce Mongol iron horse began to rise, expanding its territory all the way to Europe. As Europe's gateway to Asia, Poland struck head-on with the Mongol Empire's sword.
It may be the pace of expansion of the Mongol Empire, because the long rush was a little tired, Poland actually survived the fierce attack of the Mongol Empire, and also joined hands with the Hungarians to repel the Mongol Empire and save the danger.
In 1505, Russia began to move westward, Poland encountered an iron fist in the face, in order to resist Russia, the Kingdom of Poland integrated the Grand Duchy of Lithuania to form the First Polish Republic, in this way, Poland and Lithuania were strongly united, occupying a land area of nearly 1 million square kilometers, and directly formed a European power.
Poland's first disappearance
When the small country became the number one power in Europe, Poland began to swell. Began to use his economic and military power to constantly provoke on the European territory. Countries with relatively weak strength, adopting the principle that they cannot afford to hide, will throw a little sweetness to Poland when this arrogant mountain king comes to harass again.
Poland has no reason to start a war if it gets dividends, so it can only make small troubles everywhere and vent its excess energy.
Until the beginning of the sixteenth century, he once gave himself a punch in the face
Poland was overjoyed, seeing that the opportunity for revenge was at hand, perfunctory made up an excuse, sent tens of thousands of elite troops to Russian territory, these tens of thousands of soldiers and horses killed all the way to Moscow, completely took over the Russian regime, and even proclaimed a Polish tsar as the master of the Russians.
This wave of Dutch operations simply envied the later Germany and Japan, who had not been able to conquer Moscow for many years, and centuries ago, it was the domain of the Poles.
The Poles took advantage of the chaos to attack Tsarist Russia and steal power, causing dissatisfaction among the Russians, and organized a rebellion to overthrow the puppet regime, and the fake tsar was also killed and hung on the city wall.
In this way, the war between Poland and the Russians began, that is, this war to defend the regime, which completely stimulated the fighting national soul in the hearts of the Russians. In 1612, the Russian rebels responded to the call of the whole people, and completely drove the Poles out of the country.
At the same time as Russia's rapid development, serious social contradictions appeared in Poland.
Adhering to the mentality of revenge and not revenge, Russia immediately turned back to retaliate, directly annexed it with Austria and Prussia, and in 1722, the three countries signed the Treaty of Partition of Poland. In the blink of an eye, Poland's strategic and resource areas were looted, and nearly 35% of its territory fell into the hands of other countries.
After this raw and alive stripping, Poland's territory remained only 200,000 square kilometers, and the population directly fell to 4 million.
Poland became a huge resource trove that was eaten up as it declined. At this point, Poland, which had been founded for 800 years, completely perished.
The once invincible Poland just disappeared from the map.
The second time it disappears and regenerates
At the beginning of the nineteenth century, France gave birth to a god-man comparable to Genghis Khan - Napoleon. This war maniac, with his army, defeated Austria, Prussia along the way, and finally encountered Waterloo when conquering Russia.
These are simply great news for the Poles, and the countries conquered by Napoleon are all executioners who once bullied themselves. They firmly believed that Napoleon was the angel who came to their rescue. So, after Napoleon captured Warsaw, Poles poured into the streets and frantically expressed their support for Napoleon.
Napoleon also intimately rebuilt the Duchy of Warsaw for the Poles.
The establishment of the Duchy of Warsaw was tantamount to the rebirth of the Poles, but before they could make their country bigger and stronger, and create glory again, this flame of hope was extinguished.
Like chicken blood, the Poles, who wanted to use the military strength of France to shame themselves, followed Napoleon into Russia, clamoring for revenge.
But as we all know, a generation of gods Napoleon was defeated in 1814, and the Poles, who had just had a new regime, were defeated by Russia and Prussia before they could go home to celebrate, and were divided again.
As the saying goes, the emperor takes turns to do it and come to my house next year. This phrase is still really appropriate for Russia and Poland. Before the fall of Poland, the Polish tsar was established to act as a blessing in Russia, and now just after the restoration of the country, he was educated by Russia on the ground, and Russia even returned a tooth for a tooth, making the tsar the king of Poland.
And just like that, Poland hastily disappeared again on the map.
But the big stage of history is always full of drama.
Time soon entered the First World War, and the Poles who died became a brick of the European revolution, and wherever they needed to move, there were Poles in the two camps that had divided their food.
In 1916, Germany supported Piłsudski, the leader of the Polish Socialist Party, and established the Polish Provisional Government.
At this time, the power of Europe has become stable, because Poland's European façade and special geographical location factors are regarded to death by Britain, France and the United States. In order to protect its interests in Europe and not be interfered with by other countries, Poland miraculously restored itself again with the tacit consent of various countries.
Death Poland
Although the country has been restored, the Poles are not much less talented in doing things than the Indian three brothers.
Despite the fact that they had just returned to the country, they were always worried about the fact that the territory had not returned with the regime and that they only had 200,000 square kilometers. They are full of disdain and want to take back the more than 800,000 square kilometers of territory that once belonged to them.
So, the Poles gathered an army of 700,000 and began to attack the Soviet Union.
The tough Soviets, of course, did not allow this rookie to challenge their authority, and did not show mercy at all, and directly pushed back to the city of Warsaw. The Poles could not collect debts and almost lost their family money.
Seeing this, Britain, France and Germany hurried out of the city to help each other, after all, Poland, as the eastern gateway to Europe, if it was captured by the Soviet Union, then Europe would no longer have a gate to contain for the Soviet Union.
thereupon
After the Soviet-Polish War, the relationship between Poland and the Soviet Union was completely irreparable. Centuries of feud between the two countries cannot be easily resolved.
In 1921, the Second Polish Republic was founded, shivering between Germany and the Soviet Union. The Polish government knows that these two violent guys can't afford to offend, so they pulled the two bigwigs and signed a non-aggression pact, which can be regarded as a protective film for their fragile lifeline.
But this weak protective film was quickly torn off.
In 1933, an Austrian art student who failed twice entered the German historical stage. He preached the theory of revenge every day, in a vain attempt to tear up the Peace of Versailles and recover the territory and resources he lost in World War I.
The French next to them instantly exploded, the French are good at surrender, during the First World War, they were repeatedly ravaged by the Germans, and a whole generation of French people died on the battlefield.
The French, who could not withstand the toss, did not want to fight and began to look everywhere for allies to help them protect themselves. France found Britain first, but as an old industrial country, Britain certainly knew the idea of balancing France's interests, and agreed strangely that if France went to war, it could provide France with weapons at the price of family affection.
Stalin at that time, who was worried about how to break the anti-Soviet alliance, met the French representative and happily signed the non-aggression pact between the two countries.
Poland, sitting on the wall watching the play, after a short hesitation, agreed to the request of the French representative, and now it can directly provoke Germany, which once signed the non-aggression pact.
Although Poland is just a wall-to-wall grass, there is a little bit of a flower intestine that wants to borrow some oil and water when the two sides are at war. But their former ally, the leader, has been replaced by Hitler the Mustache, a black-and-white dictator.
In this way, in a flicker, Poland immediately withdrew from the anti-German alliance and turned around and signed a non-aggression pact with Germany.
The third fall of Poland
In 1938, Hitler provoked the war and sent troops to annex Czechoslovakia, and Czechoslovakia immediately asked the anti-German alliance for help, and the cunning French, in order not to be involved in the war, just sat dryly in front of the microphone and protested what Germany did, just when Slovakia almost fended for itself, the honest Soviet Union struck.
However, it is a pity that due to the non-aggression pact signed between Poland and Germany, the Soviet Union was stopped by Poland when it reached the gate of Europe.
Britain forcibly buckled a hat against Poland for the actions of the Soviet Union, and the cowardly France did not speak.
Only then did the Soviet Union see through that the two allies with whom they had signed a contract had long since abandoned themselves, and the anti-German alliance was a major culprit.
The Soviet Union, feeling played, turned around and went to Germany to cooperate.
The mustache that tried his best to close Europe, suddenly felt happy to knock on the door, when he tried his best to dig Poland over and form an alliance with himself, just to prevent a sneak attack by the Soviet Union, now even the USSR is allied with itself, then what is the threat from the east?
Since Poland is not needed to block the Soviet attack, there is no need to keep this wall grass.
Subsequently, the Soviet Union and Germany added an additional article to the cooperation agreement to divide Poland.
In this way, the hapless Poland, completely unaware, became a lamb to be slaughtered.
In the early morning of September 1, 1939, Hitler, with a small mustache, sat in the command room, with a map of Poland in front of him, and his eyes were red from staying up late and excited. Just now, a large number of German military bombers blew up the Polish Air Force airfield, and his capable generals were fighting on Polish soil. Two weeks later, the Soviets began their offensive from the eastern flank of Poland.
World War II officially began, at the cost of Poland's third death.
Poland's geographical location dooms them to be unable to survive alone in times of war, but the wavering attitude of the Polish authorities and the crazy style of acting to death have aroused public anger, and they will be frequently attacked by other countries, as a historical spectator, they can only sigh, Xing, the people suffer, die, the people suffer.