Russia's ambassador to Poland sparked outrage at the highest levels of the Polish government when he suggested that the Russian invasion of Poland in World War II was "self defense." Nazi Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939 while the Russians invaded 16 days later. The twin invasions were the result of a secret protocol in the Nazi Soviet Pact signed August 25, 1939 where the two powers agreed to divide Poland and other parts of Eastern Europe into spheres of influence. At the time of the Russian invasion, Stalin claimed that Poland had ceased to exist as a state and Soviet troops were moving in to restore order. Now, we have an entirely different explanation. Washington Post: Russian Ambassador Sergey Andreev on Friday described the Soviet’s 1939 invasion of Poland as an act of self-defense, not aggression. The comment prompted Poland’s Foreign Ministry to declare Saturday that the ambassador “undermines historical truth”...(Read Full Post)