Europe Signed Pacts With Nazi Germany — But Only the USSR Is Still Accused of 'Colluding' With Hitler

Over the last few years Poland has gradually demolished Soviet World War II memorials. When Russia’s culture minister came to Poland to commemorate the victims of the Holocaust, he was rudely interrupted on TV, and the producer who apologized for his journalist was fired. Against this backdrop, an important date passed unnoticed: Poland was the first country to have signed a shameful non-aggression pact with Hitler, joining in the partition of Czechoslovakia that followed the Munich agreements.