Word: lubliners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...There are indications that the French are disturbed by reports that Russia might try to establish a German Government under Field Marshal General Friedrich von Paulus (see INTERNATIONAL) and also seek French recognition of the Lublin regime in Poland which General Charles de Gaulle refused to recognize when he was in Moscow...
...offer was made by way of the Warsaw (formerly Lublin) Polish Government, which indicated that it might be willing to trade Teschen in return for Czech recognition. The threat was made by way of the Ukrainian Socialist Soviet Republic, whose Kiev radio unexpectedly broadcast a claim to the Czechoslovak province of Carpatho-Ukraine (also known as Ruthenia), the only part of Czechoslovakia yet liberated by the Red Army. The Teschen area (500 sq. miles), rich in coal and heavily industrialized, had been tossed by Adolf Hitler as a sop to Poland after Munich. Backward, mountainous Ruthenia (4,886 sq. miles...
...from Lublin hoisted Poland's red-&-white flag over Warsaw's debris. They established their Government in hastily constructed barracks. As their first order of business, they dispatched judges and prosecutors to other cities through which the Red Army had crashed to purge traitors and collaborators...
...days after the Red Army captured Warsaw, the Lublin Government moved in, too, and became the Warsaw Government...
...resolute refusal to join the 15-nation commission. Main reason was "technical": the Soviet Union had insisted on a member for each of its 16 constituent republics. During more than a year the commission had ordered no trials, drawn no indictments. Meanwhile, Russia tried war criminals periodically. In Lublin a month ago six SS (Elite) Guardsmen were indicted, tried and hanged in three days for mass murder committed in the Maidenek "extermination" camp. While the United Nations were still floundering for a workable plan, Russia, as usual...