Major Steps in the Forced Communization of Poland in the Wake of the Yalta Sellout. Mason

‘This Forlorn Adventure’: British Policy Towards Poland, 1944-1947: Phd Thesis, by Andrea Grace Mason. 2014. Department of International Politics, London School of Economics

Poland’s Freedom Confiscated: It Was Taken Away Incrementally, and By Manipulation and Force

In this thesis, the author basically takes the view that the British government “did all it could” to prevent the Soviet-imposition of the Communist puppet state on Poland. However, a number of her statements alone make it clear that this was not the case.

FORCIBLE COMMUNIST RULE BECAME A FOREGONE CONCLUSION

In discussing the early postwar period, Andrea Mason writes, “Power was concentrated in the hands of a small number of communist leaders who relied on the security police to maintain their control over the population. The PPR [so-called Polish Workers’ Party] themselves had admitted to Cavendish-Bentinck that they would receive only approximately 20 per cent of the vote in free elections but they had also ‘made it abundantly clear’ that they had no intention of relinquishing power.” (p. 128).

THE STEP-BY-STEP BRITISH GIVEAWAY OF POLAND

Every step that Stalin took, for the subjugation of Poland, was rewarded by British acquiescence. How could Stalin not become emboldened? How could the final outcome have been otherwise?

The author writes, “…British criticism of the postponement of the Polish elections and the falsification of the results of a referendum held in June was muted.” (p. 14).  Mason also comments, “Although the British embassy in Warsaw agreed that international supervision was essential to ensure that the elections were conducted fairly, the Foreign Office did not support the request.” (p. 148). She adds that, “Indeed, just over a week later, at the end of July, the British government formally rejected international supervision of the Polish elections as ‘unlikely to prove feasible’.” (p. 149).

Professing support for free elections, while not insisting on international supervision of them, is tantamount to not supporting free elections at all! The farce is palpable.

WAXING COMMUNIST TERROR

Mason continues, “The majority of the population supported Mikołajczyk but were ‘in terror of the security police and of other means by which the administration can make life intolerable for them’. The PPR was systematically reneging on the Yalta, Moscow and Potsdam agreements: they had postponed elections and had changed the balance of power within the government by gradually edging out the PSL [Polish Peasant Alliance] members. The intention of the PPR was to continue putting off elections using various ruses such as the referendum, while strengthening its hold on the country via the security police and control over the administrative machinery.” (p. 128).

THE FALSIFIED MID-1946 REFERENDUM: DETAILS

The author recognizes that the referendum was completely bogus. She writes, “The referendum was held on 30 June 1946 with a turnout of 85.3 per cent of the electorate in spite of the intimidation tactics employed by the PPR and the security police, including the arrest of thousands of PSL supporters, the disbanding of local PSL committees and the closure of local branch offices prior to the referendum. The official results of the referendum released by the government were falsified. These claimed that 68 per cent of the electorate had voted for the abolition of the Senate, 77 per cent for land reform and nationalisation of industry, and 91 per cent for the western frontier with Germany. The British embassy in Warsaw, on the other hand, estimated that a majority of approximately 80 per cent voted against the abolition of the Senate in order to demonstrate their opposition to the present government. The embassy noted that a ‘surprisingly large proportion’ of the electorate also voted against agricultural reform and nationalisation. These results, which were collected by embassy observers at polling stations around the country, have since been roughly corroborated by documents released after 1989. Only 26.9 per cent had voted ‘yes’ to all three questions as they had been urged to do by official government propaganda. In response to the question about the retention of the Senate, to which the PSL had urged voters to answer in the negative, 73.1 per cent had voted ‘no’.” (pp. 145-146)

THE BRITISH COMPLETELY ABANDON POLAND TO THE SOVIET WOLVES

Mason candidly admits, “The last of the British resolve to influence the postwar Polish political settlement evaporated just at the moment when external support became crucial to the survival of the PSL. Crippled by the PPR’s concerted campaign of attack carried out through the autumn and winter of 1946-7, the PSL’s only chance of retaining legal recognition as a political party rested on support from its foreign allies. Mikołajczyk entered into the election campaign confident of this support; at each key juncture he found it was not forthcoming. Not only did Britain refuse to make a forceful intervention with the Warsaw government as Mikołajczyk requested, it vetoed several PSL initiatives that could conceivably have had an effect: an appeal to the UN, an election boycott, a withholding of goods or a refusal to pay taxes.” (p. 190).

THE SHAM JANUARY 1947 ELECTIONS: BRITISH TALK AND NO ACTION

With reference to the farcical January 1947 elections that officially brought the Communists to power, Andrea Grace Mason concludes, “The count had been conducted entirely in secret and had taken 12 days. In view of the circumstances in which the elections were held, the British government could not possibly consider them free or fair, and did not regard the new government as either democratic or representative. At this point, the statement took a different turn. In spite of the dissatisfaction with the conduct of the elections, there was no intention to take the issue to the UN, withdraw the British ambassador from Warsaw, break off diplomatic relations, or impose economic sanctions on Poland.” (p. 196).

THE AUTHOR MISSES THE POINT: EARLY UNILATERAL CONCESSIONS TO STALIN

In this thesis, Mason focuses on the period of 1943-1947. This includes Teheran and Yalta. However, Mason is oblivious to the fact that the western Allies had already betrayed Poland long before then! Back in 1941, when the USSR was on the ropes, the British already had sent signals to Stalin he could do whatever he wanted, as they had no intention of fulfilling their treaty obligations to Poland.  They granted Lend Lease aid to the USSR with no strings attached.

See:

1939 Zydokomuna. Contra Recycled Communist Propaganda: AntiSemitism Anders Army Bogus. Stalin Called Jews “Poor Soldiers”, Not Anders! Yalta Exculpation Fails: Lend Lease Without Conditions. Kot

Looting Normal Wartime Conduct. NKVD-Gestapo Cooperation. Yalta Exculpation Fails: Lend Lease Crucial For Red Army Mobility. Poland 1956. Khrushchev

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