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Entry: Patrick Buchanan and the Necessary Book Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/patrick_buchanan_and_the_necessary_book#30067 Post contents: "In essence, I cannot help but conclude that the Allies sacrificed Poland to an unprecedented genocide in order to bolster morale, and to salve their leaders’ bad consciences over Munich. Little good it did them. The rearmament they managed between 1939 and spring 1940 was not sufficient to keep Hitler from conquering most of Continental Europe, and seriously menacing Britain. Those brave Poles died—like Tolkien’s comrades on the Somme—for nothing. " I think there's an alternative to this explanation. If the Allies had not bought time to boost morale, they might never have fought. Had they never fought, all of Poland might have been annexed to Germany anyway and Poland destroyed. Because the Allies fought, Poland fell to Stalin in the end. Stalin did not inflict upon Poland nearly the level of destruction that Naziism would have. Why? Because Stalin did not want to annex Poland to the USSR, or replace the Polish population with Russians, or kidnap "Aryan" Polish children and raise them as part of another nation, or extinguish Polish culture as such. Poland has risen from the ashes of Bolshevism; it may never have risen from the ashes of Naziism. The French and British war promises did bring salvation to Poland -- in 1989. If they had not intervened in 1939, then fifty years later there might not have been a Poland at all, just a stretch of fairly recently colonized Eastern Germany with a rump population of Slavic "sub-human" wretches working as a slave caste. That's just one alternative account of what happened. Sent at: 2008 12 01