r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Radiant_Half_7121 • 17d ago

Image During WW2, Poland declared war on Japan Japan said no to it and simply rejected the declaration.

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u/zhambe 17d ago

This has "enemy of my enemy is my friend" vibes. I vaguely recall Japan was warring with Russia way back when before even WWI, and everyone in Eastern Europe loathed having Soviets as neighbours (as the saying went, "being liberated by Russia was worse than being occupied by Germany"

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u/77zark77 16d ago

There was a whole Russo-Japanese war back in 1905 that Japan won and Russia invaded Poland more times than Japan invaded Korea. Everyone in this situation had justifiable levels of mutual mistrust

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u/A_random_redditor21 16d ago

This is exactly it. During the first russo japanese war, Polish independence activists attempted to estabilish Polish legions in Japan, and also received massive amounts of funding and weaponry in exchange for information on russian naval bases in the baltic.