“Poland made many mistakes … After all, Germany offered her to peacefully solve the issue of Danzig [Гданьску]. The Polish leadership of that time categorically refused and, in the end, fell the first victim of Nazi aggression, ”the head of the Kremlin said.
During the same speech, Putin said that Western countries did not take into account the complexity of their problems before defending Ukraine. He also assured that the Russian Federation is not going to invade the territory of NATO countries.
Context
In October 1938, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Nazi Germany Joachim von Ribbentrop proposed to Poland to extend the non -aggression pact in exchange for permission to attach Danzig to Germany and the construction of the highway and the railway through the Polish lands. Poland unofficially rejected this proposal at the meeting of the Minister of Foreign Affairs Bek with Hitler and Ribbentrop on January 4, 1939, and the final refusal was officially informed by Germany on March 25. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland, which laid the foundation for the Second World War
