Right, nothing happens in vacuum. Few hundreds years Poland was the province of Russian Empire. The control was lost when Bolshevicks violently seized the power (Oktober of 1917) in conditions of staggering new born Russian democracy (February of 1917). They could hold it further if only the unity of strong and mighty forces opposed to them would have been scattered and fight one another. Therefore Bolshevicks started that parade of sovereighnities - they simply told to the provinces' national elites to take as much power as they wanted to. Afterwhile, as all threats to dictature of Bolshevicks were destroyed they started to claim the presented souvereignities back, naturally they wanted to command all territory of Empire. They got control back over Siberia, Caucasus and Middle Asia relatively easy, but some territories were lost for two decades - the operation in Poland of 1920 and in Finnish province of 1939 failed, besides that Germans occupied Baltic provinces up to the 1918 and under threat (or by conspired plan) forced the Bolshevicks to admit the existance of three absolutely new states - Estland, Latland and Lithauen. The Ribbentrop-Molotov Pakt was for Stalin just the end of the story of 20-years long, and to his mind Russia retrieved part of her territories back.
Really? You control all the night disembarkments on all the bases, you count all the soldiers without citizenship and all that international bob-tails hired garbage of Haliburton? Respect.
Hm, when Hitler wrote his dreams, where were German troops? Germany was demilitarised if I recall it right.She said it, and those of Russians who are informed of it will never forget it. Yes, I meant "admissions", I created the "admittances" from the root "admit" too hasty.


"The strike first makes half of victory". Every street boy knows that plain.
I already touched this topic in this forum and discussed it with Web on Central Asia/Russia page. The argument of lucky Russians which have especially severe winter in the years they are assaulted is very beloved in West, French like it too in regard to the Napoleon. All the way it's modestly silenced the fact that in the time of Bonapart and in the time of Hitler all European armies and the Russian one too were not designed to wage war in winter time at all by default. The cold season simply vetoed all the maneouvers and garrisoned all divisions on the captured positions till the spring. All those moans about Russian winter mean only one thing - when we had to be defeated accordingly the european rules for possible variations of war, we broke the rules and won the impossible war. Each time we wrote the second part of the scenario in which we supposed to be only actors. That's annoying, I understand.
Secondly, I already got tired to remain, that the West started to supply Soviet Union only after the Germans were stopped and throwed back by the Moscow. Up to this moment the West simply waited and thought us to be chanceless and therefore not worthing for help.
And thirdly, I wonder which versions of history you boast you know so exellent? That one that W. Churchill said about - "History will have mercy on me, cause I will write her"? Or the US' one where the D-day and Pacific operations determined the victory? The decisive contribution to the success by Moscow was the intel information, that Japan will not attack us. One third of all divisions that have been frozen up to our Siberian border was rapidly taken away and thrown to the West and said hello to Germans. Add this as third version, just for fun.