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Although in 1939 Hitler occupied Poland we didn’t think that Germany would start a war with the USSR. Molotov and Ribbentrop executed the Non-Aggression Agreement[4] that convinced us that here was going to be no war. We had a well-armed army and it even didn’t occur to us that somebody would dare to attack us. We believed one thing, but another thing happened. Of, course, the leadership of our country was to blame that they believed in all these agreements. They should have taken care of our defense. They didn’t and that was why so many people suffered. Hitler broke into our country easily when he could have been stopped.
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Alexandr Nepomniaschy
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