Potsdam 1945 - Stalin - “defender of Polish borders.”

As early as June 17, negotiations began in Moscow of the international so-called “commission of three” on a government for Poland, with the participation of a carefully selected Polish representation. At the same time, Stalin organized the trial of 16 leaders of the Polish underground, arrested in March, who were accused of anti-Soviet plots.

On June 21, an announcement was made of an agreement to form the Provisional Government of National Unity. It was headed by Edward Osóbka-Morawski. Wladyslaw Gomulka and Stanislaw Mikolajczyk, who arrived from London, became deputy prime ministers. The new government represented Poland at the Potsdam Conference, where the fate of primarily the western borders finally established on the Baltic, Oder and Lusatian Neisse was decided. The eastern border was sealed by Poland's treaty with the USSR concluded after the conference. This heralded repatriations, resettlements and settlements in the so-called Recovered Territories.

In the broadcast about the second half of 1945, the first months of peace, in which the new authorities continued land reform, nationalization, set guidelines for the reconstruction of the country at the First Congress of the Polish Workers' Party (PPR), were obliged to hold democratic elections, although at the same time they stepped up the fight against the independence underground, the Poakowski partisans and the legal opposition, whose symbol became Stanislaw Mikolajczyk, an authority protested by the US and Britain for violating the Yalta decisions on the freedom to shape the party system in Poland.
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Prof. Andrzej Nowak (historian) / The Second Half of 1945, or the First Months of Peace (Living History/ One)