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Destruction of the Buffer States between

Germany and the Soviet Union

We are doing a deed that, if it succeeds, will turn the whole world upside down and will
free the entire workers’ class.
—J. S,  PRAVDA, F ,

t is a fact of history that on June 22, 1941, Germany attacked the Soviet Union, suddenly
and treacherously. However, it is a very strange fact. Before World War II, Germany had
Ino common border with the Soviet Union and therefore could not attack it, especially in
a sudden fashion. Germany and the Soviet Union were separated by a solid barrier of neutral
countries. In order for the Soviet-German war to take place, it was necessary to create the
right conditions: to destroy the barrier of neutral countries and establish common Soviet-
German borders.
Everyone interested in the date June 22, 1941, before cursing Hitler and accusing
him of treachery, has to answer at least two questions: who destroyed the buffer row of neu-
tral countries between Germany and the Soviet Union and what for? e barrier between
Germany and the USSR was double-layered, and only in one place single-layered. Poland was
the only country that had at once a border with both Germany and the Soviet Union. Poland
is the shortest, most direct, most convenient route between the USSR and Germany. Poland
is the thinnest part of the dividing wall between the two countries. Obviously, the potential
aggressor, wishing for a Soviet-German war to take place, would try to cut a corridor precisely
in this location. Contrarily, the country not wishing for a war should, with all its might, all its
wisdom, all the force of its international authority, not allow its adversary to penetrate Polish
territory. Or, as a last resort, begin fighting that opponent on Polish soil, without letting him
on its territory.
Hitler wrote in Mein Kampf : “We want to return to that point, at which our previous
development six hundred years ago was halted. We want to halt Germany’s constant advance
to the south and the west of Europe and decisively point our finger in the direction of ter-
ritories located in the east.” In the 1930s, especially after the Nazis came to power, Hitler’s

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