On Oct 19, 2008, at 4:08 PM, Chris Doss wrote:
>
>
> There was never a Soviet-German border, either before or after the
> pact.
>
In legal fiction, no. In reality yes.
> --- On Sun, 10/19/08, Shane Mage <shmage at pipeline.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> 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
>>