Sir, – As a Pole living in Ireland, I read “Poland will be smack in the centre of a new Europe” (Opinion, Weekend, May 20th) with interest. The author writes, in the context of German invasion of Poland in 1939: “A year later Poland was invaded by Russia from the east”. This happened not a year but a mere 17 days later; consequently Poland was overrun in less than a month. The invader should more precisely be described as the Soviet Union, an entity larger than Russia.
He closes his piece by saying: “It is almost as if, nearly 25 years after the Berlin Wall came down, the real reconfiguration of Europe after the Soviet Union is only just beginning”.
Time flies: the Berlin Wall came down in November 1989; the 34th anniversary is looming. – Yours, etc,
Dr MARCIN SZCZERBINSKI,
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School of Applied Psychology,
University College Cork.
