On Oct 19, 2008, at 9:27 AM, John E. Norem wrote:
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> Stalin 'planned to send a million troops to stop Hitler if Britain and
> France agreed pact'
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> Stalin was 'prepared to move more than a million Soviet troops to
> the German border to deter Hitler's aggression just before the
> Second World War'
>
> By Nick Holdsworth in Moscow
No wonder the British and French didn't take this offer seriously. Until the Stalin-Hitler alliance had divided Poland between them there was no Soviet-German border. After the "pact" there might well have been one--but Poland would have ceased to exist. The Poles--pro-German at the time of Munich as whenever they felt menaced by Russia and noting the Czechoslovak precedent--would have objected in ways satisfying to Berlin.
Shane Mage
> This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it
> always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire,
> kindling in measures and going out in measures."
>
> Herakleitos of Ephesos