How Stalin defended the interests of Poland
The Polish political elite, like the overwhelming majority of the intelligentsia, loves to “savor” the sins of Stalin’s “bloody regime”. But he does not like to remember his gift - a significant increment of the territory of the Polish state on the western border.
21 April 1945, Warsaw received a third of the current territory of Poland. This day in Poland was deliberately forgotten.
December 31 The Provisional Government of Poland created on the basis of the Polish National Liberation Committee (CPO) appealed to Moscow with a proposal to compensate Polish territorial losses. In September, the USSR annexed Western Belarus and Western Ukraine to September 1944. The Provisional Polish Government proposed the inclusion of the territories of Silesia and Pomerania (the Baltic coast) that belonged to Germany but had a Slavic past. In Moscow, this proposal was supported.
At the Yalta Conference (4 - 11 February 1945), where the leaders of the countries of the anti-Hitler coalition of the USSR, the USA and the United Kingdom participated and discussed the issues of post-war organization, Stalin introduced this proposal. W. Churchill and F. Roosevelt reacted positively to the restoration by Moscow of their western border, the transfer of the occupied in 1918 – 1920. Poles lands. But the increase in Poland at the expense of Germany caused a protest. Churchill began to argue that by tearing such vast territories away from Germany, the Allies would cause a growth of revanchist sentiment from the Germans. I remembered the Treaty of Versailles, when after the First World War Germany was severely curtailed. This led to the growth of protest, nationalist sentiment among the Germans and the coming to power of the Nazis, led by Hitler.
London and Washington came up with a very “brutal” plan - the Morgenthau plan, The “bloody Stalinist regime” considered these proposals incorrect.
What did the Anglo-Saxons offer?
- Reduce the daily ration of German workers with 2000 kcal per day, so this is too much.
- All metallurgical and chemical industry to export from the territory of Germany.
- Children pass on the education of the UN, teachers to appoint Jews. Write new textbooks, the contents of which will be agreed between the USSR, USA, England. To prohibit the Germans from receiving higher education, to close all higher educational institutions, libraries, research equipment to divide between the winners.
- In addition to the destruction of military potential, Germany should be completely deprived of industry, mines and mines flooded.
- In reparations include not only cash payments and property, but the resources of Germany, its territory. Forced labor of the Germans in other states. The confiscation of German land ownership for the redistribution of Germany, of any type. Deforestation of the German forests in favor of the Allies.
- Prohibit Germany's foreign trade.
These activities, in their opinion, would end the domination of Germany in Europe. This and a number of other plans to turn Germany into a third-rate state were not realized only because of Stalin’s position. Stalin, the “bloody tyrant and despot,” did not allow him to do this with the German people.
About Poland
Moscow offered to give Warsaw and the Baltic coast - part of East Prussia and Pomerania with the city of Gdansk (Danzig). W. Churchill was against it, proposing to create in this territory the second part of a divided Germany. That is, by the end of the war, the Anglo-Saxons and Moscow did not reach a common decision regarding Poland.
21 April, 1945, the USSR and Poland signed a friendship agreement. The USSR did not wait for the "blessing" of London and Washington and, taking advantage of the fact that these territories were already under its control, gave the Poles control over the German territories in Pomerania and Silesia with an area of 100 thousand square kilometers.
At the Potsdam Conference (from July 17 to August 2 1945), Stalin’s proposals on Poland were approved. According to German economists, this was a big blow to Germany for the post-war period, the Polish budget received more than 130 billion dollars from deposits in these areas alone, which is about twice as much as all reparations and compensations paid by Germany in favor of Poland. Poland received deposits of stone and brown coal, copper ore, zinc and tin, which put it on a par with the world's largest miners of these natural resources.
Even more important was the receipt of the Warsaw coast of the Baltic Sea. If in the year 1939 Poland had the 71 km of the sea coast, after Potsdam it was the 526 km. They helped Poland and the national minority, the Germans were simply evicted (approximately 4 million people).
Poles and Poland are personally obliged to Stalin, the USSR and, as its successor, to the Russian Federation, all these riches. And if we start the revision of the results of the Second World War, then the Poles should return to Germany a third of its territory.
Sources of:
History diplomacy. T. 4.
Churchill W. The History of the Second World War.
21 April 1945, Warsaw received a third of the current territory of Poland. This day in Poland was deliberately forgotten.
December 31 The Provisional Government of Poland created on the basis of the Polish National Liberation Committee (CPO) appealed to Moscow with a proposal to compensate Polish territorial losses. In September, the USSR annexed Western Belarus and Western Ukraine to September 1944. The Provisional Polish Government proposed the inclusion of the territories of Silesia and Pomerania (the Baltic coast) that belonged to Germany but had a Slavic past. In Moscow, this proposal was supported.
At the Yalta Conference (4 - 11 February 1945), where the leaders of the countries of the anti-Hitler coalition of the USSR, the USA and the United Kingdom participated and discussed the issues of post-war organization, Stalin introduced this proposal. W. Churchill and F. Roosevelt reacted positively to the restoration by Moscow of their western border, the transfer of the occupied in 1918 – 1920. Poles lands. But the increase in Poland at the expense of Germany caused a protest. Churchill began to argue that by tearing such vast territories away from Germany, the Allies would cause a growth of revanchist sentiment from the Germans. I remembered the Treaty of Versailles, when after the First World War Germany was severely curtailed. This led to the growth of protest, nationalist sentiment among the Germans and the coming to power of the Nazis, led by Hitler.
London and Washington came up with a very “brutal” plan - the Morgenthau plan, The “bloody Stalinist regime” considered these proposals incorrect.
What did the Anglo-Saxons offer?
- Reduce the daily ration of German workers with 2000 kcal per day, so this is too much.
- All metallurgical and chemical industry to export from the territory of Germany.
- Children pass on the education of the UN, teachers to appoint Jews. Write new textbooks, the contents of which will be agreed between the USSR, USA, England. To prohibit the Germans from receiving higher education, to close all higher educational institutions, libraries, research equipment to divide between the winners.
- In addition to the destruction of military potential, Germany should be completely deprived of industry, mines and mines flooded.
- In reparations include not only cash payments and property, but the resources of Germany, its territory. Forced labor of the Germans in other states. The confiscation of German land ownership for the redistribution of Germany, of any type. Deforestation of the German forests in favor of the Allies.
- Prohibit Germany's foreign trade.
These activities, in their opinion, would end the domination of Germany in Europe. This and a number of other plans to turn Germany into a third-rate state were not realized only because of Stalin’s position. Stalin, the “bloody tyrant and despot,” did not allow him to do this with the German people.
About Poland
Moscow offered to give Warsaw and the Baltic coast - part of East Prussia and Pomerania with the city of Gdansk (Danzig). W. Churchill was against it, proposing to create in this territory the second part of a divided Germany. That is, by the end of the war, the Anglo-Saxons and Moscow did not reach a common decision regarding Poland.
21 April, 1945, the USSR and Poland signed a friendship agreement. The USSR did not wait for the "blessing" of London and Washington and, taking advantage of the fact that these territories were already under its control, gave the Poles control over the German territories in Pomerania and Silesia with an area of 100 thousand square kilometers.
At the Potsdam Conference (from July 17 to August 2 1945), Stalin’s proposals on Poland were approved. According to German economists, this was a big blow to Germany for the post-war period, the Polish budget received more than 130 billion dollars from deposits in these areas alone, which is about twice as much as all reparations and compensations paid by Germany in favor of Poland. Poland received deposits of stone and brown coal, copper ore, zinc and tin, which put it on a par with the world's largest miners of these natural resources.
Even more important was the receipt of the Warsaw coast of the Baltic Sea. If in the year 1939 Poland had the 71 km of the sea coast, after Potsdam it was the 526 km. They helped Poland and the national minority, the Germans were simply evicted (approximately 4 million people).
Poles and Poland are personally obliged to Stalin, the USSR and, as its successor, to the Russian Federation, all these riches. And if we start the revision of the results of the Second World War, then the Poles should return to Germany a third of its territory.
Sources of:
History diplomacy. T. 4.
Churchill W. The History of the Second World War.
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