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Jump back to quoted post2 Apr 2019, 12:37 PMCrecer13

What for? Let's open the history textbook and see the following historical fact: In April 1939, the USSR invited the ambassadors of France and Great Britain to the Moscow talks. The USSR proposed a triple alliance between the USSR, France and Great Britain. Negotiations were held on the basis of the unwillingness of Poland to give the right of passage to the Soviet troops in the event of the outbreak of war. After dragging out the negotiations, the USSR signed a non-aggression pact with Germany. If Poland agreed, it could have been a completely different war, without millions and millions of victims.

For Poland, the USSR was the main threat. Also in 1938, when the USSR announced that it was ready to defend the sovereignty of Czechoslovakia - Poland, denying the right of passage of the Soviet troops and officially stated: in the event of any attempt by the USSR to assist Czechoslovakia, Poland would declare war on the USSR. This fact is enough that the USSR unilaterally withdraw from the Polish-Soviet non-aggression treaty of 1932.

Jump back to quoted post27 Mar 2019, 16:50 PMferwiner

Actually, it is more of a polish city. The city was founded in 997 under polish rule and it stayed like that for first 300 years of its existance, to be then ruled by german teutonic order for next 150 years and come back to the polish crown for another 300 years. In fact in its whole over 1000 years history, the city was under polish rule for more than 700 years and under german one for less than 300.

The name thing is actually the other way round. The german word "Danzig" is simply the way germans written the original name of the city, which was "Gdańsk" ever since the city was founded.

A better choice would by the city of Königsberg (currently Kalinigrad or Калининград), which was also conquered by the teutons, but it was under german rule for much longer than Gdańsk was. It was also not founded by the germans, but from old prussians, indigenous people of the region who disappeared through the ages and who never had a chance to get it back under their rule.