Your basically in the murder zone you guys were never going to have a good time.
Well, for centuries it was rather the other way around. The only time it happened similarly to what happened during WWII was in the 11th century. Besides, it was Poland that as a rule kicked its neighbors so hard that they gave up on her. (If it were otherwise there would be no Poland).
We know very well that we will simply never quite be the dream ally for Germany or Russia who always prefer to get along with each other, and an alliance with one of them always means that they will try to turn us into a geographic land rather than an independent country.
It can be said that the IIRP and its defeat and collapse was an accident at work.
Then you are fools.
Nazi Germany saw the Poles as subhuman. You were fit only to be a slave race in the eyes of the Third Reich's rulers and any deal you'd have made with them wouldn't be worth the paper it was written on.
Do you think we are blind? Anyway, it is quite possible to see that Poland's refusal to Hitler's proposal pushed him into a pact with Stalin, and that the peculiar dislike of Poland that Hitler held among Germans erupted anew, but this time Hitler himself turned it upside down with his craziness.
Whether they regarded Poles as subhuman changed over time. First quietly shush, the Germans are nice, then during the war when the Poles won subhuman because they had the audacity to reject our demands then when they started getting their asses handed to them then suddenly the Poles are cool, help us with the Bolsheviks. Another thing is that the general reports during the war rather slowly over time from a negative tone of disdain turned into admiration for Polish intelligence and cleverness and I even remember a quote from some German general that if they had Polish soldiers on German equipment they would have conquered the world.
So the whole thing was not so simple.
Anyway, that alliance with the Allies was awesome, first the hammer fell on us, then they slaughtered a chunk of our nation, and to this day we still feel the losses, and our country was razed to the ground and the capital annihilated, and then came the Soviets "Liberators" who stayed for longer because we were betrayed and handed over for more than 50 years to an inhuman system that destroyed to the end our elites and produced our own red ones who do not even match the old ones.
At the same time this system slowed down our development for half a century, took away the ability to speak as we saw the war, so that the only known tragedy that happened in Poland was that of the Jews, as if the Poles also did not try to kill and turn into slaves without their own culture or language.
And not a few of our cultural works were either stolen by the Germans and never returned or were irretrievably lost because they were destroyed by the Germans or Soviets.
You know, I'm surprised that among our people there is no form of Nazis who would like to raze half of Europe to the ground on principle. And they would love to start by wiping London off the map.
Who would like to slaughter the Germans every last one of them, and the Russians would like transformed into a form of slaves, who have the raw and insensitive power they want according to the steorotypes.
Poles are not a stupid nation, they think if maybe it was better together with Hitler to go to the Soviets and then betray him if he starts trying something. We learned our timeline, the cost we paid and the wounds we suffered continue to this day.