agreed although it means bloating the alternative title by yet another word i was concentrating on the polish attitude here as it clearly provides the starting point for the article at hand obviously if the article is to be written from a supra national perspective at least the czech experience needs to be included czechoslovakia being the only functioning democracy in the region by the s had closer ties with the west than poland did and was betrayed in a much more obvious and tangible way than poland was the west politically accepted the country's territorial mutilation which was not the case with poland that said i am not sure if the inclusion of countries such as finland the baltics yugoslavia or even ukraine which had never been independent in the first place is a good idea while the west could have arguably done more to assist any of these societies before and after the war i think that the article's focus should be on poland and czechoslovakia in order not do dilute the whole issue after all there were dissidents in germany and the soviet union too who were harbouring grudges towards western politicians because of their appeasement policy oct utc