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[Scisca]

mai said:

Scisca said:

What Polish occupation of Czechoslovakia? No such thing has ever happened, you really are making up stuff and should stop doing it.

I thought we have been through this? Oh, well... not to provoke discussion, just stating facts for those, who're interested, not you specifically.

(some nice photos)

Bigger fish ate smaller fish.

We will never be through this if you keep repeating your bullshit. It's typical you ignore half the facts just to make this look the way you want it to look. Typical Russian propaganda. If you totally ignore the origin of the conflict, the reason why we did what we did - you'd be right. But being so blind only makes you and your statement ignorant and absolutely false.

Here are the facts you choose to ignore, but change the whole look of what has happened:

1918 - the area belongs to Poland. Really, read this carefully IT BELONGS TO POLAND.

The population was 75-80% Polish.

In late 1918 Poland and Czechoslovakia agreed to divide the area ethnically, so that both countries would get a part of the area (obviously, the majority would be Polish).

On the 23 of January 1919 Czechoslovakians took advantage of the fact that we had to deal with a conflict in Ukraine and sent 16.000 troops, an armoured train and heavy artilery to conquer the area. Polish army was only 3.000 troops strong, so they had the upper hand, still they went as far as to execute captured Polish soldiers. Due to the pressure from the Tripple Entente, they've stopped their offensive on 30th of January and negotiated a new border, which gave more area to Czechoslovakia. After more pressure from the West, the Czechoslovakians agreed to hold a referendum in the area as to which country do people want to belong to - which never took place, as they again took advantage of the Russian invasion in 1920 and took the rest of the region thinking we would lose the war to Russia. They thought we'd lose just because we were outnumber a couple of times... Sheesh... ;)

So this is the origin of the conflict. The Czechoslovakians acted like assholes, they invaded the area which belonged to Poland and was populated by Polish people. They were the ones who were occupying this region for almost 20 years. What happened in 1938? This time aroung we took advantage of their problems. But note one thing - what we did, was done peacefully, see your photos - we didn't fight or kill people, while Czechoslovakians killed the majority of our units and executed the POWs. They have brutally invaded and conquered the area against the will of the people living in the area. On the other hand - we moved in and were treated like heroes for returning the area where it should belong. Moreover, all we took was what they took away from us. We didn't take a single piece of land that wasn't ours before their invasion. We took back what they stole from us. I bet it doesn't look the way you'd like it to look, but that's the truth.

Now - if you keep repeating your bullshit, totally ignoring the origin of the conflict, just looking at the final outcome totally ingoring half the facts and what caused all these events - we will never get through this. But only because of your ignorance.

This wasn't "occupation of Czechoslovakia" (do you even know what these words mean, for Christ's sake!?). It's not the big fish eating the smaller fish either. The only way we can sum it up is - karma, bitch! And justice. Again - if anyone was occupying anyone, it was them occupying a part of Poland.