Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill (1874 - 1965) The Second World War
Volume VI Triumph and Tragedy (1953)
Theme of the Volume How the great democracies triumphed, and so were able to resume the follies which had so nearly cost them their life
BOOK II The iron curtain
CHAPTER XXII
RUSSIA AND POLAND: THE SOVIET PROMISE
POLAND was discussed at no fewer than seven out of the eight plenary meetings of the Yalta Conference, and the British record contains an interchange on this topic of nearly eighteen thousand words between Stalin, Roosevelt, and myself.
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Poland had indeed been the most urgent reason for the Yalta Conference, and was to prove the first of the great causes which led to the breakdown of the Grand Alliance.
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It was for this that we had gone to war against Germany-that Poland should be free and sovereign.
ну вот и ясно все стало
это из-за Польши вся мировая война началась!
вся Британия ради свободы и независимости Польши существует...
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Great Britain had no material interest of any kind in Poland. Honour was the sole reason why we had drawn the sword to help Poland against Hitler's brutal onslaught, and we could never accept any settlement which did not leave her free, independent, and sovereign. Poland must be mistress in her own house and captain of her own soul.
да да да... как только англичанин начинает толковать о вашей свободе и независимости и о том, что он делает что-то для вас потому что это честно - дело плохо... чехи в студию...
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The President was now anxious to end the discussion. "Poland," he remarked, "has been a source of trouble for over five hundred years." "All the more," I answered, "must we do what we can to put an end to these troubles."
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I was conscious of a large body ofopinion in Great Britain which was frankly shocked at the idea of moving millions of people by force. A great success had been achieved in disentangling the Greek and Turkish populations after the last war, and the two countries had enjoyed good relations ever since; but in that case under a couple of millions of people had been moved. If Poland took East Prussia and Silesia as far as the Oder that alone would mean moving six million Germans back to Germany. It might be managed, subject to the moral question, which I would have to settle with my own people.
Черчилль и моральные вопросы...
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Of course I put the security of the Red Army first, but I begged Stalin to consider our difficulty. The British Government did not know what was going on inside Poland, except through dropping brave men by parachute and bringing members of the Underground movement out. We had no other means of knowing, and did not like getting our information in this way. How could this be remedied without in any way hampering the movements of the Soviet troops? Could any facilities be granted to the British (and no doubt to the United States) for seeing how these Polish quarrels were being settled?
две страницы назад они отлично знали что происходит и кого любит польский народ...
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