Abstract
When Germany attacked the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941, the “imperialistic” war assumed new dimensions for the Western alliance and for Poland. London’s immediate purpose, according to Eden, was to restore Polish-Soviet relations.1 From June 1941, until the Western powers withheld recognition from the Polish government in London in 1945 tension within the Anglo-Polish alliance centered on a single issue — the basic conflict between Soviet and Polish interests.
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Kacewicz, G.V. (1979). Negotiating the Polish-Soviet Treaty. In: Great Britain, The Soviet Union and the Polish Government in Exile (1939–1945). Studies in Contemporary History, vol 3. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-9272-6_5
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