at yalta the different leaders had different idea’s for the future of poland:
Roosevelt who was very ill at the time,wanted to keep the democracy in eastern Europe so they would opposes the USSR’s dictatorship. Roosevelt wanted people to vote for their government and have ultimate choice over their leader.
on the other hand Stalin wanted the ussr to have security from the west. he wanted the soviet union to keep its polish territory that was taken in the nazi-soviet pact. he also wanted to make sure that the polish government were simpathtic to the soviet form of democracy.
Churchill wanted to stop Stalin making Poland soviet this was because britain had gone to war in 1939 to help poland and churchill did not want to abandon poland to soviet control.
the London poles were the anti soviet future government the started their government in in london as a “government in exile.”
the lubin poles were the soviets answer to the polish government they were set up by the USSR in a place called lubin the wanted the government to be communists Stalin felt he could trust them.
the Warsaw uprising was an attack on Warsaw by the London poles, they did this as they thought that they could become the government if they could seize part of Poland before the red army.the London poles and many sympathizers enter the city and destroyed it the red army (which were near by.) did nothing to help the people of the city. because their was no opposition nearly 300000 poles were killed.afterwards the Germans sent the surviving people of Warsaw to concentration camps and when the red army finally took the city it was completely deserted.
Stalin refused to help the rebels as they were anti communist.
at the Yalta conference starlin gained territory from eastern Poland and north japan
the Lubin poles became Poland government
a place in the UN
a zone in Germany and Berlin
sent prisoners of war back to USSR to be killed or imprisoned (these men were forced to join the war.

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