Unfortunately there is indeed some truth to the saying "good fences make good neighbors."
Poland, sadly, is screwed by it's geography. Yes, it has it's own proud history, but it is stuck in between a number of powerful rivals whose history speaks for itself. The modern U.S.A., by comparison, just really lucked out geographically by having access to two oceans on each side and only two neighbors, one north and one south, with the one to the north quite pleasantly stable (other than the Quebec issue) and the one to the south more beset by internal issues to be too much of a threat. Unfortunately there is indeed some truth to the saying "good fences make good neighbors."
However it was Roosevelt who convinced Churchill not to bother Stalin too much about things like Katyn forest and Warsaw uprising. USA never had a problem throwing their allies under bus, Poland included.
It's weird that the Ocean is winning, considering Poland is not neighboring it.
With the benefit of hindsight, Unthinkable was a sensible option. Given what everyone knew then though, starting a fresh war against an 'ally' was a horrible idea. I do think someone should have shoved a tank in Stalin's face when it became apparent they were rigging the elections in the Eastern Bloc nations though.Not our best moment, like at all.
Though it still puts us above Austria who partitioned Poland right after they saved them from the turks.
I think they mean the Baltic Sea. Which could be construed as the Atlantic Ocean extending a tentacle and giving Poland a friendly pat on the head.
Of course that's only been a Polish coast for about a century. If you looked under enough rocks you could probably find someone who wanted to Make Pomerania Prussian Again.
That true.Medieval Lithuania was in fact Belorussia ruled by lithuanian dynasty - but even then,belorussian was court language.Byelorussia has never fought Poland and was a part of its glory and culture for centuries.
The Ocean on the other hand let Gustavus Adolphus invade.