poland has been the gateway from the east during many wars over the last century or two. it makes perfect sense to me, The war of 1922 was a training ground for what stalin and the others wanted, not to mention the abandonment of poland in WWII.
The poles, hungarians, slavs and others know full well what is in entailed. Keep in mine current day poland contains a lot of what was once other countries, gdansk was part of prussia, and so on. My grandmothers home village is in present day slovakia, and she was slav, but it's a short walk to poland today, in her time it would have been poland.
