Word: polese
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"I wish solemnly to state here, and with the greatest emphasis, that if, at the conclusion of war, our rights are not respected and our long and passionate devotion to freedom is not taken into consideration, all Poles, irrespective of religious or political creed, will be united to the last...
Sikorski had his reasons for such inflammatory talk, but both the time and the tone were ill chosen. He and his Poles had been aroused by: 1) Russia's refusal to promise the restoration of Poland's eastern frontiers; 2) recent signs that Moscow is growing more & more...
Sikorski and Eduard Benes, President of Czecho-Slovakia, once stood together in support of a Central European federation aimed not at Russia but at Germany. Lately the Poles, heady with resurgent nationalism now that the Allies are beginning to win, have demanded some Czech territory, and Benes stands alone. But...
He has repeatedly stated, and we believe with all sincerity, that his main war aim is to free "Russian soil" from the Nazi armies, meaning that he intends to keep only those regions which used to be part of old Tsarist Russia: the Baltic Provinces of Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania...
Furthermore, unlike Hitler and Mussolini who started a disturbance of the peace of Europe by aggressively and forcibly seizing other peoples' territories, Stalin acted only after a general European war had been started by others, and then only took such territories as had formerly been part of tsarist Russia and...