Poland, after the First World War, was beset by chaos, disorder, and a foolish incursion by the Red Army, which helped to produce the ultra-nationalist military dictatorship of General Pilsudski.
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Poland was the racial laboratory of the Nazis. This is where they started to put their abhorrent theories into practice.
In 1945, when the Second World War technically ends in Poland, the incoming Soviet army liberates some groups of people but begins to oppress the general population, in some ways more harshly than it had happened before.
Poland is a wildly dramatic and tragic story. It's just unbelievable what went on with those people. How they survive, I don't really know. The Germans had a particular hatred for the Poles; they really considered them subhuman Slavs, and they were very brutal to them.
Poland, of course, was the key country. I remember Stalin telling me that the plains of Poland were the invasion route of Europe to Russia and always had been, and therefore he had to control Poland.
Poland is an ally of the United States of America. It was our duty to show that we are a reliable, loyal, and predictable ally. America needed our help, and we had to give it.
The people in Poland had to deal with painful reforms.
Poland is quite a mediocre country in some regards. The only natural resource that we have, and with which we can compete, is freedom.
I always needle a bit when people say I'm a champion of the Poles, because I've always had a very multinational view of Poland.
Poland should be strong and prosperous and independent and play its proper role as a great nation in the heart of Europe.
The chief fruit of the First World War was the Russian Revolution and the rise of Communism as a national power.
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