Debunking the Myth of the "Golden September" of 1939 (29.09.2022)
A street video debate on the myth of the “Golden September” of 1939 — the Soviet narrative of “liberating” Western Ukraine and Belarus on 17 September 1939. The author shows: on 17 Sept. the USSR attacked Poland (after Germany on 1 Sept.) to carry out the secret protocol of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact — both totalitarian regimes were aggressors, not liberators; “liberation from under the Polish lords” was the occupation of an independent state, and the justification of “protecting an oppressed population” literally repeats Hitler’s Sudetenland argument of 1938 (and today’s argument about Crimea/Donbas). A second video source for the article on the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact.
Key moments
- 06:06 Partition of Poland: the west to Nazi Germany, the east to the USSR
- 07:14 Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact of 1939: Hitler and Stalin partitioned independent Poland
- 08:02 On 1 Sept. Germany attacked, on 17 Sept. the USSR; this began World War II
- 11:22 The myth of "liberating Western Ukraine and Belarus from the Polish lords"
- 18:45 The "protecting the oppressed" argument = Sudetenland 1938, today — Crimea/Donbas