Michael wrote:
I always wondered if any historians figured out the end of WWII coincided
with the day Poland regained it's freedom from Russia.

???

Where do you get these ideas? If that's the case, then WW2 is still
going on because North Korea is as much a Russian client state as ever,
and Cuba became one well after the "end" of WW2 if you don't count
Poland; but if you do count Poland then it's occupied territory now.
Maybe the Germans should invade North Korea and Cuba, thus ending the
war. We can't do it for them because with regard to WW2, we are Russia's
allies.




... That being the
ostensible reason given for the start of WWII. Not the longest war in
history but certainly the most odd in terms of how fought.

Hardly. I suggest you look up some of the previous European dynastic
wars, for example the War of the Spanish Succession... now there were
some complex webs to untangle.


... Five years of
intense battle and 40 more years of economic warfare with the Poles amongst
others bearing most of the non economic burden. How they MUST value
their freedom after all those years as socialist slaves.

Why don't you go there and find out? I have a number of Polish friends
including a couple who just moved back because they think (with some
good reasons) that their children's future is brighter there than here.


One of the two great unanswered questions of war. The other being did
Texas lose it's Lone Star Republic rights because of the civil war?

No more so than any other state. The War of Northern Aggression settled
the issue of state's rights under the Constitution... there aren't any.
Next I suppose we should look at the question of individual rights... no
wait, let's not...

DSK