Oops! Ukrainian Parliament Opens Door to Polish Territorial Revisionism
‘Late last week, Ukraine’s parliament passed a declaration which officially condemned the Soviet Union for the outbreak of WWII, and rejected the post-war order which was established in 1945. In effect, lawmakers have unwittingly opened a Pandora’s Box to Polish territorial revisionism.
Between 1919-1921, the newly independent Polish Republic and Communist Russia waged a war across Polish, Belarusian and Ukrainian territory; the war started after Warsaw saw its chance to regain its former imperial glory; Moscow, meanwhile hoped to export its communist revolution to Germany. The war ended in 1921 after the Battle of Warsaw, when the Bolshevik government sued for peace.’
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