16: Colonization, Extermination, Ethnic Cleansing
The Making of Modern Ukraine
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If the Poles Don't Fight in 1939, It's a Very Different World War
If the Poles don't fight in 1939, then it's unclear at what point the French or the British ever would have gotten into the war. The reason the French and the British got into the Second World War was that they had by that time given Poland a security guarantee. And if the Americans don't get into the war in Europe, you don't have the Americans supplying the Soviets with Studebakers and Jeeps across the Pacific Ocean. But without Britain, it's hard to see how Roosevelt gets the Americans into the war In Europe.
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