Unlike Russian official media in recent weeks, he did not blame Poland for starting the war, or try to claim that the Soviet Union's invasion of Poland on September 17th 1939 was justified.

和俄罗斯官方媒体近几周的报道不同的是，他既没有指责波兰挑起战争，也没有试图宣称前苏联1939年9月17日对波兰的入侵是合法之举。

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Ukraine, where Conrad was born in 1857, and Poland, where he spent much of his youth, were phantom countries-both then part of the Russian empire.

1857年康拉德生于乌克兰，青少年的大部分时间则是在波兰。当时这是两个傀儡国，属于俄罗斯帝国。

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Poland, Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria have reported drops in gas supplies after Russian gas giant Gazprom cut off supplies to Ukraine, foreign media reported.

据外媒报道，自俄罗斯切断乌克兰天然气供应后，波兰、匈牙利、罗马尼亚和保加利亚供气量已开始下降。

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But in 1830, while he was touring Europe, Poland's Russian rulers crushed an uprising, sending many Polish artists into exile.

VOA: standard.2010.03.04

Poland is furious that Russian military and intelligence officials appear to lay significant blame on Poland for the outbreak of the Second World War.

VOA: standard.2009.09.01

This follows a documentary on Russian state-run television alleging that Poland had made agreements with Nazi Germany, which planned an invasion of the Soviet Union.

VOA: standard.2009.09.01

Previous Russian arrivals in Poland have been less happy.

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Presumably, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice meant to be reassuring when she responded to a pointed question on Fox News Sunday about Russian threats to nuke Poland and the Czech Republic if the latter cooperate with the United States on missile defense.

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By happy coincidence, many of the most promising shale-gas deposits in Europe are in those countries most vexed by their dependence on imports of Russian gas, such as Poland, Hungary and Ukraine.

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