Western Trahison

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The notion of betrayal of the West is defined in part of the historiography of the countries of Central and Eastern Europe, Greece, Cyprus and the countries of the Eastern Mediterranean, in reaction to the evolution of the foreign policy of the West.

Historical Substrate and Stages
This perception of "treason", which the countries of Central and Eastern Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean feel as "victims", draws from several sources:

In countries of Orthodox tradition, this perception goes back to the Fourth Crusade, which isolated and seriously weakened the Byzantine Empire against the Ottomans, which the lettered of the Christian West will use to try to justify by separating the Churches of the East and the West by putting the responsibility for this rupture only on Eastern Christianity.

Among the peoples of Central and Eastern Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean, the perception of a "treason" comes from the reversal of Western Europe, which, in connection with the "Enlightenment" movement, first supported their emancipation movements and promoted the "right of peoples to self-determination" but then disengaged in stages, as at the Berlin Congress of 1878, when these same powers prevented the Balkan states from realizing their aspirations. Moreover, in 1918, the West reneged on the Middle East, on promises made to Armenians, Kurds, Arabs and Jews (Balfur Declaration). Finally, there was Western inaction in the face of the persecution and extermination of the Christians of Anatolia (Armenian genocides, Pontic Greek, Assyrian and others) who concluded in 1923 by the Treaty of Lausanne.

Between 1936 and 1939, the Western Allies, who had previously promoted democracy and self-determination for the peoples of Central and Eastern Europe, broke their commitments by letting Adolf Hitler remilitarize the Rhineland, annex Austria and dismember Czechoslovakia.

At the beginning of the Second World War, between 1939 and 1940, the West remained militarily passive to the west and was content with temporarily occupying the Saar during which Germany and the USSR destroyed Poland in the east (German invasion of Poland and Soviet invasion of Poland).

Also during the Second World War, between 1943 and 1945, the Allies, despite the revelations of agents like Jan Karski and Erwin Respondek, did not attempt to stop the Nazi extermination machine (railways serving the death camps) or to rescue the Polish resistance during the Warsaw uprising. Moreover, the West abandoned the Yugoslav Loyalist resistance to the Communist partisans and kept the Polish government in exile from the Allies' discussions on the Polish question, thus betraying the Polish Army of the West. In addition, the West refused to accept or allow refugees fleeing the Sh