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Archived Articles | 03 Dec 2008 | EWR

Edward Lucas

Did the British kill General Wladyslaw Sikorski? Or connive in a Soviet plot to do so? I doubt it. But as the wartime leader’s fate comes again into focus, so too comes Britain’s irritatingly lopsided view of wartime history.

…// Every time I hear that victory in 1945 brought “freedom” to Europe, I quibble: to Western Europe, maybe, but what about our allies? And what’s this about a neat end in 1945? The Żołnierze wyklęci were fighting for years afterwards and Józef Franczak was not caught until 1963. The last Estonian partisan, August Sabbe, hid in the woods until 1978 (he drowned trying to escape from a KGB search party)….//

Read Edward Lucas’ article written for the Polish weekly Wprost here:

http://edwardlucas.blogspot.co...

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conspiracy05 Dec 2008 12:58

Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939.
England and France declared war on Germany on September 3, 1939.

The USSR invaded Poland on September 17, 1939.
England and France never declared war on the USSR.

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