Germany seizes Austria, France is afraid of this strengthening of Germany and does not want to allow it, for which it is trying to attract the Soviet Union in the event of a war with Germany over Austria, which needs the strengthening of Germany as much as a hare needs a stoplight. And at this time, France's "ally" - Poland, with Germany's blessing is preparing the seizure of Lithuania! And it also reproaches France for not supporting it. As a result, without allowing the issue of the passage of Soviet troops through its territory to be resolved, Poland weakened France and allowed Germany to settle in Austria without hindrance - in fact, it helped Germany to commit the first (I emphasize - FIRST !!!) aggression in Europe, which inspired Hitler to the subsequent aggression. And it was this that gave Sir Winston a reason to call the Poles "the most vile of the vile" and to hang on Poland an impartial nickname "HYENA". Of course, he was an outstanding bastard, but in my opinion he had something to respect. Personally, this overweight guy smelling of alcohol and cigars, despite his fierce hatred of the USSR, is very sympathetic to me! And if this case of joint actions by Poland and Germany were the last, then this case could be considered a coincidence and attributed to the eternal shortsightedness of the Poles, but this Polish complicity of Germany in the aggression against Austria was only the beginning. April-August 1939 was ahead !!
To be honest, it was inconvenient for Poland and Germany to be in the "club" of the Western colonial powers, not having their own "overseas" colonies.
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