Talk:Stanisław Mikołajczyk

Churchill persuaded Stalin to move polish territory by force
The text I deleted was missleading. Stalin in fact planned to keep the conquered eastern terretories together with the polish and ukrainian inhabitants. It was Churchill who persuaded Stalin to expell the polish - and in a much lesser amount ukrainian - inabitants and deport them to Silesia, Pomerania and East Prussia where the german inhabitants vice versa where to be expelled.

Mikołajczyk offered strong-willed resistance, thats the reason why Churchill dropped him. Byzanz

some more informations
 * here it's discribed quite good: The eastern frontier of Poland was further discussed at the (Anglo-Soviet) Moscow conference of October, 1944. Churchill pressed Mikolajczyk to accept the Curzon Line as a defacto arrangement. On October 13th, Mikolajczyk met with Stalin, who asked that the London Poles publicly accept the Curzon Line, Mikolajczyk was unable to agree to this. Later he offered to agree to the Curzon Line if Stalin would give up his claim to Lvov, but Stalin held fast. Mikolajczyk returned to London and, being unable to persuade his colleagues to accept the Curzon Line, resigned in November from the government-in-exile. This virtually ended the influence of the London Poles on the frontier question.

Moved from main
leader of the Peasant Movement, founder of the Stronnictwo Ludowe (the Polish Peasant Party) and representative of the Polish Government-in-Exile during WW2, offered the only real opposition to the Sanacja regime established after Pilsudski's coup. He organised a political strike (15 August 1937) which called for a political amnesty and a liquidation of the Sanacja. The strike turned violent, 42 people were killed and about 1000 arrested; the events shook the régime badly. When Sikorski was killed at Gibraltar (1943), Mikolajczyk succeeded him as prime minister. Opposed to the Soviet annexation of East Galicia and the imposition of the "Curzon Line" frontier on a post-war Poland, Mikolajczyk was placed under great diplomatic pressure and warned by Churchill, "You are on the verge of annihilation. Unless you accept the frontier...the Russians will sweep through your country and your people will be liquidated." Mikolajczyk went to Moscow to discuss the situation with Stalin directly and watched helplessly as the Soviets set up the "Polish Liberation Committee", under Osobka-Morawski of the PPS (Polish Socialist Party), in Lublin on 22 July 1944 and the subsequent disaster of the Warsaw Uprising in August. The Uprising placed Mikolajczyk in a position where he had to plead for help instead of strengthening his bargaining position. He was pressurised, by the Allies, into accepting a compromise whereby Poland would gain land in the West as compensation for the territories lost in the East and, despite his misgivings, he agreed that he would come to Poland to head a provisional government made up mostly of the Lublin committee. Mikolajczyk was concerned that the establishment of the Polish border on the Oder-Neisse would cause problems with any post-war German government (as had the Polish Corridor after WW1) and tie Poland to the Soviet Union indefinitely. Any opposition became academic when the Western Powers confirmed Poland's eastern frontier at Yalta in February 1945 and at Potsdam in July. At Yalta and Potsdam Stalin had agreed to set up an interim government consisting of twenty-one members, sixteen of them sponsored by Stalin himself; Mikolajczyk would be deputy premier - the Allies agreed to this and withdrew their recognition of the Polish Government-in-exile. In the January Election of 1947, in a blatant disregard for the provisions agreed at Yalta and Potsdam and in elections declared to be irregular by foreign observers, the communist-led Democratic Bloc gained power; Bierut was elected President and Cyrankiewicz, Premier. In the Sejm, Mikolajczyk was condemned as a foreign agent. As the last remnants of the anti-communist underground were destroyed in the countryside, he was forced to flee for his life from Poland (October 1947).

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