The Partition of Poland in the South Caucasus

In September 1939, the world witnessed a tragic turn of events as Poland was invaded and subsequently partitioned between two totalitarian regimes: Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. This division arose from the infamous Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, a non-aggression treaty that included secret protocols to divide Eastern Europe into spheres of influence. The Allies, particularly Britain and France, failed to provide adequate support to Poland, which led to its swift collapse and threatened the very survival of the Polish nation. It was the end of what the British poet W.H. Auden called a “low dishonest decade.”