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The Allied Responses to the Warsaw Uprising of 1944:
In her article, “The Diplomatic Background of the Warsaw Uprising of 1944: The Players and the Stakes,” Anna M. Cienciala argues that the Warsaw Uprising of 1944 “was not only the culmination of Polish resistance against the Germans, but also the climax of the Polish-Soviet dispute over the Polish eastern frontier.”

The lack of coordination between the Home Army (Armia Krajowa, or AK) and the exiled Polish government in London to include Warsaw in Operation Tempest, the brutal German response to the uprising, and declining civilian support all contributed to the uprising’s failure.

Stalin’s desire to decide Poland’s postwar borders and government, however, also played an important role since it guided his decision not to provide sufficient aid to the Polish Home Army. As historian Norman Davies argues, Stalin’s decisions seem to have followed a certain sequence: wait and see what would happen, dissociate himself from the exiled-government’s political leadership, and finally, refuse to assist his allies’ attempts to provide support to the insurgents and civilians trapped in Warsaw.

Stalin’s misrepresentation of the Soviet Army’s situation, and his prohibitions on Allied planes landing on Soviet-occupied airfields, created conflict within the Allied alliance and marked one of the first major disagreements between Stalin and his Western allies.

DISPUTED BORDERS
The 2,000 km (approximately 1,200 miles) that separate the Vistula and Volga rivers have historically been a point of contention for Poles and Russians. Stalin made his territorial claims in Eastern Europe clear in mid-December 1941 when he told British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden that the precondition for an Anglo-Soviet alliance was British recognition of the Soviet Union’s western frontier as of 1941. This included the Soviet annexation of eastern Poland, part of Finland, the Baltic states, as well as Romanian Bessarabia and northern Bukovina.

Following the German invasion of the Soviet Union, General Wladyslaw Sikorski, the Polish Prime Minister in exile and Commander in Chief of its armed forces, concluded a treaty with the Soviet Union on July 30, 1941. The treaty effectively voided the Ribbentrop-Molotov agreement of 1939, which had divided Poland between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. It also stipulated the reestablishment of Polish-Soviet relations, military cooperation against Germany, and the creation of a Polish army in the USSR.

The July 1941 treaty stopped short, however, of drawing a permanent border between the two states, since neither could agree on a definite boundary. While the Soviets wanted the frontier to be drawn at the Curzon Line (see map below), the Poles insisted on maintaining Poland’s prewar borders. https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/allied-responses-warsaw-uprising-1944

Warsaw Uprising, (August-October 1944), insurrection in Warsaw during World War II by which Poles unsuccessfully tried to oust the German army and seize control of the city before it was occupied by the advancing Soviet army. The uprising’s failure allowed the pro-Soviet Polish administration, rather than the Polish government-in-exile in London, to gain control of Poland.

https://www.britannica.com/event/Warsaw-Uprising