Just two weeks later, Stalin would send his own Red Army into Eastern Poland to take his share of the Polish nation that the “non-aggression” pact had allotted him, essentially making it a joint Nazi/Soviet offensive that crushed the Poles from both sides. Interestingly enough, even though the British and French didn’t hesitate to declare war on Nazi Germany, they never declared war on the Russians, even though their initial invasion and occupation of Eastern Poland were just as brutal as the Nazi invasions of Western Poland.
