Возвращаясь к Джонсону — буквально открыв файл, я сразу же наткнулся на пассаж, который ярчайшим образом свидетельствует об уровне понимания сложных проблем Джонсоном:
Of the beneficiaries of Versailles, Poland was the greediest and the most bellicose, emerging in 1921, after three years of fighting, twice as big as had been expected at the Peace Conference. She attacked the Ukrainians, getting from them eastern Galicia and its capital Lwow. She fought the Czechs for Teschen (Cieszyn), and failed to get it, one reason why Poland had no sympathy with the Czechs in 1938 and actually helped Russia to invade them in 1968, though in both cases it was in her long-term interests to side with Czech independence. She made good her 'rights' against the Germans by force, in both the Baltic and Silesia. She invaded newly free Lithuania, occupying Vilno and incorporating it after a 'plebiscite'. She waged a full-scale war of acquisition against Russia, and persuaded the Western powers to ratify her new frontiers in 1923.
В каком-то смысле можно сказать, что некая общая канва передана более или менее верно, но понимание ситуации настолько далеко от реальности, что приходится просто развести руками.
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Date: 2021-06-23 06:11 pm (UTC)Of the beneficiaries of Versailles, Poland was the greediest and the most bellicose, emerging in 1921, after three years of fighting, twice as big as had been expected at the Peace Conference. She attacked the Ukrainians, getting from them eastern Galicia and its capital Lwow. She fought the Czechs for Teschen (Cieszyn), and failed to get it, one reason why Poland had no sympathy with the Czechs in 1938 and actually helped Russia to invade them in 1968, though in both cases it was in her long-term interests to side with Czech independence. She made good her 'rights' against the Germans by force, in both the Baltic and Silesia. She invaded newly free Lithuania, occupying Vilno and incorporating it after a 'plebiscite'. She waged a full-scale war of acquisition against Russia, and persuaded the Western powers to ratify her new frontiers in 1923.
В каком-то смысле можно сказать, что некая общая канва передана более или менее верно, но понимание ситуации настолько далеко от реальности, что приходится просто развести руками.