Word: lubliners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then Russia, stung in part probably by foreign criticism, in part probably mindful of the effect on those parts of Poland controlled by the Lublin government, began to send aid to Warsaw. But when General Bor was made commander in chief of all the Polish Government's forces, the Lublin government denounced him as a "criminal." threatened to arrest and try him if he fell into their hands. Promptly, when General Bor surrendered to the Germans, the Lublin Poles cried: "Traitor...
...sooner had the Yugoslavs explained than up popped another problem. Both London's Polish Government in Exile and the Moscow-sponsored National Committee of Liberation in Lublin made formal application for relief on behalf of Poland. At UNRRA's last meeting in Montreal a fortnight ago, delegates from the London Poles had sat unhappily silent, under strict instructions to say nothing and do nothing to rock the boat. Now a major issue was out in the open. Theoretically it was up to UNRRA's Big Three (the U.S., Britain and Russia) for settlement. Actually the final decision...
...fifth partition of Poland began last week-the partition of the soil. Throughout the liberated regions, the Lublin government confiscated all farms (except church lands) of more than 250 acres. Also seized were all lands belonging to the Polish Government in Exile, to German citizens, to Poles convicted in Lublin's courts of treason or assisting the Germans. Seizure of property belonging to the Catholic Church or to "religious communities" would be decided on later when a Sejm (parliament) was elected...
...confiscated land was to be divided into farms of not more than twelve and a half acres. These would be allotted to peasants who had little or no land, and to former tenant farmers. Priority would be given to veterans of Lublin's fighting forces, all those who fought for a "democratic Poland." Former big landowners might also receive twelve and a half acres of land-but not from their own lands. Or they might receive a small monthly allowance "amounting to the salary of a state official of the sixth group...
...Russia liquidated the kulaks† as a class. On the surface it seemed designed to break up a land economy built around baronial estates, substitute an economy of small farms-firmest foundation of the political Middle Way. But one question remained to be answered: why was the Moscow-sponsored Lublin government carrying out a small-farm land policy which Moscow (after allowing peasants to carve up the big estates in 1917) declared to be wasteful and inefficient when it began to collectivize the peasants...