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World War 2: Poland was conspiring with Nazis to destroy Soviet Union, Russia claims

Russia has released classified intelligence files it claims proves Poland was secretly conspiring with Nazi Germany against the Soviet Union prior to the Second World War.

The files, which Moscow says it extracted from its SVR foreign intelligence service archive, purport to prove that Poland was pursuing an aggressive anti-Soviet foreign policy throughout the 1930s, while ingratiating itself with the Nazis.

Their release coincides with the seventieth anniversary of the start of the Second World War and is fuelling an ill-tempered discussion between Moscow and Warsaw about whose actions helped start the war.

Polish historians have poured scorn on the files. They say they reveal little that is new and are merely based upon subjective reports from Soviet agents at the time.

Read entire article at Telegraph (UK)