Captured WW2 Weapons in Vietnam

[Flying10uk]

I use to work with a chap whose father was Polish and came to the U.K. in the early part of the war. This was partly to escape the Nazis and also he wanted to fly with the RAF in order to fight the Germans. When I was chatting to this work mate, on one occasion, about his father and Poland I was surprised when the chap turned to me and said that the place where his father came from is no longer part of Poland. Since the end of WW2 it has been part of Russia.

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[TomH]

I use to work with a chap whose father was Polish and came to the U.K. in the early part of the war. This was partly to escape the Nazis and also he wanted to fly with the RAF in order to fight the Germans. When I was chatting to this work mate, on one occasion, about his father and Poland I was surprised when the chap turned to me and said that the place where his father came from is no longer part of Poland. Since the end of WW2 it has been part of Russia.

That was down to Winston Churchill if I recall correctly. I suppose to limit the size and hence power of a future Germany he proposed, that the Polish Western Border was moved 100miles west into German territory and the Polish Eastern Border was moved 100miles West ceding Polish territory to the Russians.