A Russian excuse for the Ribbentrop-Molotov was that the Soviets worked with the Germans to estabilish a long direct border with Germany (which didn't even exist at all before the pact, with Poland and other buffor countries) because they feared a German invasion. It's absurdly nonsensical but maybe they actually believe it somehow.

Hitler and Napoleon did go through Poland, there was just no Poland on the map in both these cases. (Napoleon did create a "Duchy of Warsaw", from the lands he won from the Prussians and the Austrians but it was a French puppet state ruled by a Saxon king.)