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The pact between Hitler and Stalin to split Poland was made in secret. When the UK and France pledged to support Poland, they were doing it primarily (only?) with fighting against Germany in mind. Also, the USSR waited to invade their half of Poland until after Germany had conquered its half and thereby gotten into the war with France and the UK.

Also, some of the territory invaded by the USSR was actually Polish-occupied Ukraine, not Poland, and the military Dictatorship in charge of Poland pre-1939 had an unsavoury record of mistreatment toward the Ukrainians. I should add that it became worse once the oppressors from Poland were replaced by those sent from Moscow.

While the Soviet Union did violate Poland, England and France obviously did not want to declare war against BOTH Germany and Russia. As events in 1940 show, England and France had enough to deal with in Germany.

English and French couldn't even handle Germany, it would be silly to declear a war against U.S.S.R.

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The British pledge to Poland was militarily meaningless for geographical reasons, anyway.

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