Conference in Jalta

During the second world war Polish case was touched on during a conference of "Great Three". The most important decisions concerning Poland were taken in Jalta in February 1945. It was decided there that the "Temporary Government", which had been founded on the Stalin's initiative, would be transformed and based on wider social ground. It meant that the representatives of legal Polish government in London would be included in the "Temporary Government". Most of the Polish supported them and not the communists. New authorities had to carry out democratic elections. As an effect of Jalta conference Poland lost eastern provinces, however gained new ones in the North and West. Decisions, which had been made in Jalta, were taken without Poland's knowledge. In June 1945 in Moscow the prime minister of London government met the representatives of the "Temporary Government".

Jozef Stalin

Also in June the "Temporary Government of National Unity" was founded. Edward Osobka Morawski was the prime minister and vice-prime ministers were Wladyslaw Gomulka and Stanislaw Mikolajczyk, who stopped holding his post of a prime minister in London earlier the same year. Although everybody knew that the lmost of the government were the Stalin's allies, all countries of Anti-Nazi coalition accepted it. The participants of the conference in Poczdam confirmed teritorial gains of Poland and finally let Poland fall into the USSR's hands. Since 1944 parts of Poland had been occupied by the "red army" which helped the communists take Poland over. It took place thanks to the others' help. The most painful fact was that Poland was given away by the coalition countries with no negotiations with the USSR. As the result, Poland and other countries of Central Europe became satellites of the USSR. The communists didn't accept people who had different opinions from them and tried to opress them. So terror was directed against the soldiers, people who had taken part in underground activities opposed to the communists. General situation was horrible. People, who had fought against the German for a few years, were murdered and tormented. In prisons there were great many people who died of hunger, injuries. Even the leaders of Polish underground were arrested by the Soviet Militia, although they were promised that they would not be. They were judged because of suspicion of cooperation with Germany. The most important organization - Home Army, which fought for the independence, was found an almost criminal one. The elections to the Parliament in 1947, which were to be democratic according to Jalta's decisions, were falsified by the communists, because in that system everything was based on deceit and lies.