Article: Seventy years after World War II's start, old enemies take stock.(OPINION)(Russia, Poland, and Germany)

Byline: Elizabeth Pond

Gdansk, Poland -- Yes, enmities going back to medieval times can be healed. Any skeptic who doubts this should visit Gdansk, where Hitler's Wehrmacht attacked Poland and started World War II on Sept. 1 70 years ago. Today, as a result of brave individual initiatives - and later of government policy - Poles and Germans are friends and allies. And yes, there is also strong resistance to dropping old enmities. Any doubter of their persistence should also visit Gdansk. For weeks there has been a drumbeat in Russian media blaming Warsaw for alleged collusion with Berlin against Moscow prior to that 4:45 a.m. German attack in 1939. Russian ...

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