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UK, Poland and World War II. Lessons Before World War III

By Konrad Rękas | Global Research | March 13, 2025

Reading the recent comments to my text “Scotland Should Stay Out of the British Proxy War in Ukraine”, I feel obliged to correct one major historical misinformation concerning British-Polish relations. Some write: “How dare you suggest that Scotland should not support the government in Kiev?! After all, if our grandfathers thought the same way, the UK would not have helped Poland in 1939 and did not fight for Polish freedom in WW2!” I am terribly sorry, but this is not just a misunderstanding. It is a lie that many of my honourable critics probably have been taught in British schools.

How the UK Pushed Poland to Fight

The UK did not help Poland in 1939 but it was the British politics that pushed the Poles into war with Germany.  Westminster wanted to buy some time and distract Hitler, so provoked a war in Poland. This was the purpose of the so-called British assurance to Poland, pledged in Neville Chamberlain’s speech in the House of Commons on 31 March 1939. Doesn’t it look quite similar to Sir Keir Starmer’s “100-year partnership agreement” with Ukraine?

You don’t have to take my word for it, just please, read carefully books by English language authors such as AJP Taylor, Simon Newman and Anita Prazmowska, even Peter Hitchens and you will learn what influence British policy had on the outbreak of WWII and how the UK manipulated Polish naïve politics.  Exactly as they are doing today with Ukrainian politics, to the accompaniment of the dumbed public opinion, including the Scottish one.

And it is not like we are just now getting smarter. Some people realised the perfidious British game right away, already during WWII. General Kazimierz Sosnkowski, Polish Commander-in-chief during the late period of the WWII, has written to the Polish soldiers in 1944:

“Five years have passed since the day when Poland, having listened to the encouragement of the British government and received its guarantees, stood alone in the fight against the German power.”

After that harsh but true reminder, that Poland was pushed to fight by Britain, Churchill successfully demanded general Sosnkowski’s dismissal, later yelling at another Polish distinguished commander general Wladyslaw Anders:

“You can take your Polish divisions! I don’t need them anymore…”

Analogically today, we can see with no doubts, that it has been the encouragement of London and Washington pushing Kiev to pursue a policy that resulted in war with Russia.

The UK has never fought for anyone’s freedom

Let us finally emphasize one thing. The UK has never fought for anyone’s freedom, and certainly not for a free Poland. As today, it is all about the interests, geopolitical influence and profits of the City. It was no different during WWII. It was not the UK that defended Poland, but there having been the Poles who defended the UK during the Blitz, in the Norwegian, Libyan, Italian and French campaigns, in the Battle of the Atlantic, breaking Enigma codes, gaining an operating V2 missile and localising the Peenemunde facility. 

And do you know how Britain thanked the Poles? The UK stole some of the Polish gold reserves, which have been heroically saved from the Germans. We paid for the defence of the UK with Polish blood and Polish gold, and then we couldn’t even take part in the London victory parade.

We were no longer needed by the British Empire, which in the meantime was welcoming thousands of Ukrainian Nazis, Hitler’s collaborators, who were to be turned into saboteurs, spies and the army of WWIII. And after 80 years, the warmongers finally succeeded…

So please, don’t teach us the history of WWII as you don’t know it yourselves. Better be worried how to avoid WWIII because this could be the very last moment to do that. However, we cannot achieve the peace by supporting the Nazi-oligarchic Kiev regime nor the British jingoism. 

March 15, 2025 - Posted by aletho | Deception, Timeless or most popular | Poland, UK