On September 1, 1939, German forces invaded Poland. Soviet troops
joined the attack (in adherence to the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact) on
September 16, and by the first of October, the country was entirely in
enemy hands, and World War II was well underway.Poland and its people have had enough problems, what with being
partitioned (by Russia, Prussia, and Austria), then fighting against
Czarist ambitions, Nazi Germany, and finally the Soviet Union, without
putting up with constant jokes about their