“…The Slovaks’ new Czech overlords in Prague treated them with comparable cruelty to 18th century Russian serfs or American slaves before the US Civil War.
This horrific reality was never acknowledged in the Anglo-American and French historiography of the time. But all Slovaks lived it and it was why they desperately welcomed even the Nazis as liberators in March 1938, when Hitler set up a brief puppet state there while annexing the Czechs’ own prosperous and industrialized Bohemian heartland.
Further south, there was another dark, suppressed story: Nobody in the West knows today that in 1920, to destroy historic Imperial Hungary—the eastern half of the Habsburg Empire—Britain and France armed Romania to the teeth. The Romanians promptly occupied and enslaved the vast and prosperous lands of Transylvania and happily raped and pillaged the subject Hungarian, Jewish and German populations who had lived there for 750 years. They even briefly occupied and pillaged the great city of Budapest and raped its women with abandon, an outrage unprecedented in 400 years.
Wilson also demanded the creation of an independent Poland after its people had been occupied and dominated for 150 years or so by the surrounding nations of Prussia/Germany, Austria-Hungary and Russia.
Wilson, the great American Visionary Genius thought he was creating a stable, peaceful democracy under the gentle pianist Ignacy Jan Paderewski. But instead, the Poles led by their own “Modern Napoleon” Marshal Joseph Pilsudski who went on to conquer nine times the territory that Wilson planned to allot to them.
The remarkably large territorial empire that Pilsudski created enslaved millions of Ukrainians, Russians, Germans and Jews. Acclaimed British historian Paul Johnson in his masterpiece Modern Times rightly compared the system of Polish domination to that of white Apartheid South Africa under the Verwoerd regime.
So horrific was the rape, murder and pillaging of the previously prosperous and peaceful German population in Silesia in 1919-22 that the suffering people desperately appealed to Wilson’s beloved League of Nations to deliver them from their Polish tormentors. The response was farcical. They got nothing.
In reality it was, to borrow from H.G. Wells, “The Shape of Things to Come.” All the tormented peoples of the world, from China to Abyssinia/Ethiopia,Iraq, Palestine, Egypt, Libya, across Europe and Eurasia, would discover over the next two decades that Wilson’s beloved League was nothing more than a Big Lie. It was even less substantial than the huge, inflammable, vulnerable death trap airships that caught the imagination of the world around that time.
The League, based in Geneva, Switzerland was always a fantasy, a pie-in-the-sky dream of liberal internationalist hypocrites…”
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