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Perfect Timing. The timing of this move was as perfect as the Kremlin's recognition of its puppet Polish Government, 24 hours before the Red Army offensive into the Reich. The Warsaw Government's President Boleslaw Bierut was specific about the meaning of the move. Said he to Allied correspondents: "On Polish soil there should be a Polish administration regardless of the opinions that may be expressed at the international [Big Three] conference''. He added that he did not believe that any of the Allies "will be willing to interfere." (This week the Big Three agreed...
...Moravian Gate. President Bierut discussed two territorial divisions-East Prussia and the former Czech industrial district of Teschen-in detail. Poland and Russia's common frontier in East Prussia, he said, had not yet been worked out. But since there were many Lithuanians living around Königsberg, he presumed that that section of East Prussia would be incorporated in the Lithuanian Soviet Republic. Bierut "hoped and believed" that the Teschen question could be settled amicably with the Czech Government. In any case, Teschen would remain Polish...
...with Poland. Stalin was political commissar of the Red Army which invaded roughly the same area of Poland invaded 25 years later by Marshal Ivan Konev-just as this time a Provisional Government of Poland, headed by Felix Dzerzhinsky, followed hard on the heels of the Red Army. Like Bierut, Dzerzhinsky was a Pole. Like Bierut, he was in the Russian secret police (later he organized the Ogpu). Russia's second bid for western power failed when French General Maxime Weygand (now a German prisoner) reorganized Polish resistance. The third try-the present Red Army's-succeeded. Last...
...London the Polish Government, recognized by the U.S. and Britain, denounced the new Warsaw Government as "a gang of little men," cried: "We hold out our hand to Russia." But Russia clearly had more faith in the Warsaw Government's President Boleslaw Bierut, who according to the Polish Telegraph Agency (the official organ of the London Poles), had been in the Soviet service for some 20 years. Under the name Bienkowski he had been head of the Polish section of the Communist International. Under the name Rutkowski he had been head of the Polish section of the GPU (secret...