After the victory over Nazi Germany in July 1945 in Potsdam, the leaders of USSR, USA and Britain met to discuss the postwar world. Significant land acquisition by the end of the war Poland received. And this was done at the insistence of Joseph Stalin. This reminded the poles the expert of the Russian Institute for strategic studies (RISS) Oksana Petrovskaya.
In videokommentar she recalled, than the poles required the Soviet Union. In particular, Stalin insisted that industrialized Silesia became part of Poland. The US and Britain were against it. They believed that the poles do not have the ability to control.
the conference adopted the wording “to give the German lands under the control of Poland.” The final decision on the border of Poland and Germany was only changed in 1990, when representatives of the USSR, USA, great Britain and France finally recognized this border.
the Potsdam conference, the decision on resettlement of the German population from Poland, Hungary and Czechoslovakia. It is believed that it was displaced about 14 million Germans.
“in reality, on these lands, terrible things were happening: the looting and violence against the civilian German population, which the poles were forcibly put in cars, sending from the territories, passing under the power of Poland” – said the historian.
At the end of the war Poland acquired many German lands of the Baltic cities, including Danzig. The poles have vented anger in the German population.
“still is a trauma for the German people. After all, Danzig became Gdansk, 95% of the population before the Second world war were Germans,” he recalled Oksana Petrovskaya..
She noted that Poland was liberated by the Red army and Polish troops formed on Soviet territory. It was the Polish Army, which was then 380 thousand soldiers.
“they, together with the red Army, took Berlin and hoisted their flag over the Reichstag. Today, however, these people permitted at all in any respect”, – summed up Oksana Petrovskaya.
