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    If the Anglo-French fight over Czechoslovakia in 1938, just how easy would it be for the USSR to create a corridor thru Poland or Romania?

    That is what the pro-war, anti-Fascist side in London and Paris would indeed say. Of course there will be skeptical segments of the public, and the natural reaction of the Poles to any proposal by the Soviets and even Allies for it to be 'temporary' is to not believe it. If the Allies promise...
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    If the Anglo-French fight over Czechoslovakia in 1938, just how easy would it be for the USSR to create a corridor thru Poland or Romania?

    It muddies the moral waters for the westerners. Fighting for the Czechs against the Germans seems to be a moral decision. Even the Soviets helping the Czechs seems moral. But the Soviets invading invading Poland over the Poles bitter objections to get there - that makes people in the west...
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    If the Anglo-French fight over Czechoslovakia in 1938, just how easy would it be for the USSR to create a corridor thru Poland or Romania?

    Well, from a railway perspective, a corridor through southern Poland, through old Austrian Galicia, makes the most sense. Riding the rails all the way to Czechoslovakian territory would take the Soviet riders through Cracow and Auschwitz to cross into Moravia, skipping over Slovakia entirely...
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