Rising '44: The Battle for Warsaw (111 page)

(1) The Russian–German frontier in 1914.

(2) The Polish frontiers in 1938.

(3) The Soviet–German demarcation line fixed by a treaty signed in Moscow on September 28, 1939, by M. Molotov and von Ribbentrop.

(4) Demarcation Line of December 8, 1919. This Line was accepted by the Supreme Council which met in Spa, on July 10, 1920, as a basis for a decision with regard to the Polish–Soviet Armistice. On the following day Lord Curzon sent a proposal for an immediate armistice to Moscow, and the Line which he suggested has since been known by his name.

(5) Two variants of the Demarcation Lines between Poland and Eastern Galicia proposed by the Commission on Polish Affairs at the Peace Conference in June, 1919. The extension of the Curzon Line into Galicia, and especially the adoption of Line A for this purpose, is a violation of the agreement reached in Spa in 1920. (For details see C. SMOGORZEWSKI: About the Curzon Line and Other Lines, pp. 13–14, Free Europe pamphlet No. 7).

(6) The new western frontier of Poland claimed by the ‘Polish Provisional Government’ of Lublin.

Areas shaded horizontally represent the territories east of the Curzon Line which, according to the decision of the Crimea Conference, Poland is going to lose.

Areas [hatched] are those which, in their entirety or in part, are to be incorporated into Poland.

The dotted area represents the land of the Lusatians, or Wends, where the Slavonic language is spoken to this day.

Suggested Layout

after Marek Ney-Krwawicz and Andrzej Kunert

from
Izvestia
, January 1944

October 1944,
Evening Standard
(London)

Comment

(1) Seeking to restore the country’s pre-war frontier is labelled ‘The Small Nation Mind’.

(2) Although the Soviet Union had invaded Poland in 1939 and not vice-versa, Poles who resisted Soviet demands were dubbed ‘irresponsible’ for conducting a ‘Private War on Russia’.

(3) For daring to point out that the British were not assisting Warsaw with the same loyalty which which the Poles had defended London, the Commanderin-Chief, Gen. Sosnkowski, is characterized as an ‘Unhelpful Friend’ and an example of ‘Political Ineptness’.

Letter from the Foreign Office to Ambassador E. Raczy
ski with regard to rendering assistance to Warsaw