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Western betrayal

Western betrayalis the view that theUnited Kingdom,Franceand theUnited Statesfailed to meet their legal, diplomatic, military and moral obligations to theCzechoslovakiansandPolesbefore, during and afterWorld War II.It also sometimes refers to the treatment of otherCentralandEastern Europeanstates by those three nations.

The "Big Three" at theYalta Conference:Winston Churchill(UK),Franklin D. Roosevelt(USA), andJoseph Stalin(USSR)

The concept primarily derives from several events, including British and FrenchappeasementtowardsNazi Germanyduring its 1938occupation of Czechoslovakiaand the perceived failure of Britain and France to adequately assist the Poles during the Germaninvasion of Polandin 1939. It also derives from concessions made by American and British political leaders to theSoviet Unionduring theTehran,Yalta,andPotsdam conferencesand their limited response during the 1944Warsaw Uprisingalong with post-war events, which allocated Poland to theSoviet sphere of influenceas part of theEastern Bloc.

Historically, such views were intertwined with some of the most significant geopolitical events of the 20th century, including the rise and fall of Nazi Germany, the emergency of the Soviet Union as a dominantsuperpowerexerting control over large parts of Europe afterWorld War II,and various treaties, alliances, and positions during theCold War.The view of the "Western betrayal" has been criticized as political scapegoating by Central and Eastern Europeans.

Perception of betrayal

According to professors Charlotte Bretherton and John Vogler, "notions of western betrayal" is a reference to Polish views of "a sense of historical and moral responsibility" for the West's supposed "abandonment of Central and Eastern Europe at the end of the Second World War".[1][2]In Central and Eastern Europe, the interpretation of the outcomes of theMunich Crisisof 1938 and theYalta Conferenceof 1945 as a betrayal of Central and Eastern Europe by Western powers has been used by Central and Eastern European leaders to put pressure on Western countries to acquiesce to more recent political requests such as membership inNATO.[3]

In a few cases deliberate duplicity is alleged, whereby secret agreements or intentions are claimed to have existed in conflict with understandings given publicly. An example is British Prime MinisterWinston Churchill's covert concordance with theSoviet Union,in which he stated that theAtlantic Charterdid not apply to theBaltic states.Given the strategic requirements of winning the war, retired American diplomat Charles G. Stefan argued Churchill and U.S. PresidentFranklin D. Roosevelthad no option but to accept the demands of their erstwhile ally,Soviet PremierJoseph Stalin,at the Tehran, Yalta, andPotsdamconferences.[4]

There was also a lack of military or political support for theanticommunistrebels during theuprising in German Democratic Republicin 1953, during theHungarian Revolution of 1956,[5]and during thedemocracy-oriented reforms in Czechoslovakiain 1968 (the so-called "Prague Spring"). According to Ilya Prizel, the" preoccupation with their historical sense of 'damaged self' fueled resentment "towards the West generally and reinforced the western betrayal concept in particular.[6]Grigory Yavlinskyargues that damage to central European national psyches left by the Western "betrayal" at Yalta and Munich remained a "psychological event" or "psychiatric issue" during debates overNATOexpansion.[7]

Criticism of the concept

Colin Powellstated that he did not think "betrayal is the appropriate word" regarding the Allies' role in theWarsaw Uprising.[8]While complaints of "betrayal" are common in politics generally,[9]the idea of a western betrayal can also be seen as a political scapegoat in both Central and Eastern Europe[10][verification needed]and a partisan electioneering phrase among the formerWestern Allies.[11]HistorianAthan Theoharismaintains betrayal myths were used in part by those opposing US membership in theUnited Nations.[11][verification needed]The word "Yalta" came to stand for the appeasement ofworld communismand abandonment of freedom.[12]

Czechoslovakia

See also:German occupation of Czechoslovakia

Munich Conference

The termBetrayal of the West(Czech:zrada Západu,Slovak:zrada Západu) was coined after the 1938Munich Conferencewhen Czechoslovakia was forced to cede the mostly German-populatedSudetenlandto Germany. The region contained theCzechoslovak border fortificationsand means of viable defence against German invasion.[13][14][15]Poland would takeTrans-Olzafrom Czechoslovakia, while theFirst Vienna Awardreturned territories to Hungary. The next year, by the proclamation of theSlovak State,Czechoslovakia was dissolved, the next day the remainder ofCarpathian Rutheniawas occupied and annexed by Hungary, while the next day Germany occupied the remainingCzech landsand proclaimed theProtectorate of Bohemia and Moravia.

Along with Italy and Nazi Germany, the Munich treaty was signed by Britain and France, both allied ot Czechoslovakia. Czechoslovakia was allied by treaty with France so it would be obliged to help Czechoslovakia if it was attacked.[16]Czech politicians joined the newspapers in regularly using the termWestern betrayaland it, along with the associated feelings, became a stereotype amongCzechs.The Czech termsMnichov(Munich),Mnichovská zrada(Munich betrayal),Mnichovský diktát(Munich Dictate), andzrada spojenců(betrayal of the allies) were coined at the same time and have the same meaning. PoetFrantišek Halaspublished a poem with verse about "ringing bell of betrayal".[17]

ThenMember of ParliamentforEpping,Winston Churchillsaid: "Britain and France had to choose between war and dishonour. They chose dishonour. They will have war".[18]

Prague uprising

See also:Prague uprising

On 5 May 1945, the citizens ofPraguelearned of the American invasion of Czechoslovakia by the US Third Army and revolted against German occupation. In four days of street fighting, thousands of Czechs were killed. Tactical conditions were favourable for an American advance, and GeneralPatton,in command of the army, requested permission to continue eastward to theVltavariver in order to aid the Czech partisans fighting in Prague. This was denied by GeneralEisenhower,who was disinclined to accept American casualties or risk antagonising the Soviet Union. As a result, Prague was liberated on 9 May by the Red Army, significantly increasing the standing of theCzechoslovak Communist Party.According to a British diplomat, this was the moment that "Czechoslovakia was now definitely lost to the West."[19]

Poland

World War I aftermath

In the late 1920s and early 1930s, a complex set of alliances was established among the nations of Europe, in the hope of preventing future wars (either with Germany or the Soviet Union). With the rise of Nazism in Germany, this system of alliances was strengthened by the signing of a series of "mutual assistance" alliances between France, Britain, and Poland (Franco-Polish alliance). This agreement with France stated that in the event of war the other allies were to fully mobilise and carry out a "ground intervention within two weeks" in support of the ally being attacked.[20][21][22]TheAnglo-Polish alliancestated that in the event of hostilities with a European power, the other contracting party would give "all the support and assistance in its power."[23]

According to Krzysztof Źwikliński, additionally representatives of the Western powers made several military promises to Poland, including designs as those made by British GeneralWilliam Edmund Ironsidein his July 1939 talks with Marshall Rydz-Śmigły who promised an attack from the direction ofBlack Sea,or placing a Britishaircraft carrierin the Baltic.[24]However, the Anglo-Polish alliance did not make that commitment, and the British commitment to France was for four divisions in Europe within 30 days of the outbreak of war, which was met.[25]

Beginning of World War II, 1939

On the eve of the Second World War, the Polish government tried to buy as much armaments as it could and was asking for arms loans from Britain and France. As a result of that in the summer of 1939 Poland placed orders for 160 FrenchMorane-Saulnier M.S.406fighters, and for 111 British airplanes (100 light bombersFairey Battle,10Hurricanes,and 1Spitfire).[26]Although some of these planes had been shipped to Poland before 1 September 1939, none took part in combat. Shipments were interrupted due to the outbreak of war. The total amount of the loan from British government was also much smaller than asked for. Britain agreed to lend 8 million pounds, but Poland was asking for 60 million.[27]

Upon theinvasion of Polandby Nazi Germany in September 1939, after giving Germany an ultimatum on 1 September, Britain and France declared war on Germany on 3 September, and a Britishnaval blockade of Germanywas initiated.General Gortwas appointed commander of theBritish Expeditionary Force (BEF),and placed under the command of FrenchGeneral Gamelinof the North-eastern Theatre of Operations, as agreed before the war. On 4 September, anRAFraid againstGerman warships in harbourwas conducted, and the BEF began its shipment to France.

The German forces reached Warsaw on 8 September, and on 14 September, MarshalEdward Rydz-Śmigłyordered Polish forces to withdraw to theRomanian Bridgehead.On 17 September, the Soviet Union invaded Poland, and Polish Army in the field was effectively defeated before the divisions of the BEF could arrive in France. The first two BEF divisions, which took their place in the French line and change of command, on 3 October, and two further BEF divisions took their place in the French line on 12 October.

France had committed to undertaking a ground offensive within two weeks of the outbreak of war. The French initiated full mobilisation and began the limitedSaar Offensiveon 7 September, sending 40 divisions into the region. The French assault was slowed down by out-dated doctrines, minefields, and the French lacked mine detectors. When the French reached artillery range of theSiegfried Line,they found that their shells could not penetrate the German defences. The French decided to regroup an attack on 20 September, but when Poland was invaded by the Soviet Union on 17 September, any further assault was called off.[28]Around 13 September, the Polish military envoy to France, generalStanisław Burhardt-Bukacki,upon receiving the text of the message sent by Gamelin, alerted Marshal Śmigły: "I received the message by General Gamelin. Please don't believe a single word in the dispatch".[24]

It had been decided that no major air operations against Germany would take place. This was due to French concerns over reprisals on RAF launches from French airfields, against targets in Germany, so most British bomber activity over Germany was the dropping of propaganda leaflets and reconnaissance.[29]This theme would continue in subsequentAnglo-French Supreme War Council meetings.Afterwards, French military leaderMaurice Gamelinissued orders prohibiting Polish military envoys Lieutenant Wojciech Fyda and General Stanisław Burhardt-Bukacki from contacting him.[24]In his post-war diaries, General Edmund Ironside, the chief of the Imperial General Staff, commented on French promises: "The French had lied to the Poles in saying they are going to attack. There is no idea of it".[30]

On 17 September 1939 the Soviet Unioninvaded Poland,as agreed in advance with Germany following the signing of theMolotov–Ribbentrop Pact.Britain and France did not take anysignificant actionin response to the Soviet invasion.[31][32]However, the terms of the Anglo-Polish alliance specifically applied to invasion from Germany only.

France and Britain were unable to launch a successful land attack on Germany in September 1939, and Poland was overcome by both the Germans and Soviets on 6 October, with the last Polish units capitulating that day following thebattle of Kock.[33]However, even by the end of October, the still-forming British Expeditionary Force totaled only 4 divisions compared to the 25 German divisions in Western Germany, making a British invasion of Germany unlikely to succeed.[34]

Tehran, 1943

In November 1943, theBig Three(the USSR, US, and UK) met at theTehran Conference.President Roosevelt and PM Churchill officially agreed that the eastern borders of Poland would roughly follow theCurzon Line.[35]The Polish government-in-exile was not a party to this decision made in secret.[36][37]The resulting loss of theKresy,or "eastern territories", approximately 48% of Poland's pre-war territory, to the Soviet Union was seen by the London Poles in exile as another "betrayal" by their Western "Allies".[38]However, it was no secret to the Allies that before his death in July 1943 GeneralWładysław Sikorski,Prime Minister of Poland's London-based government in exile had been the originator, and not Stalin, of the concept of a westward shift of Poland's boundaries along anOder–Neisse lineas compensation for relinquishing Poland's eastern territories as part of a Polish rapprochement with the USSR.[39]Józef Retinger,who was Sikorski's special political advisor at the time, was also in agreement with Sikorski's concept of Poland's realigned post-war borders, later in his memoirs Retinger wrote: "At the Tehran Conference, in November 1943, the Big Three agreed that Poland should receive territorial compensation in the West, at Germany's expense, for the land it was to lose to Russia in Central and Eastern Europe. This seemed like a fair bargain."[40]

Churchill told Stalin he could settle the issue with the Poles once a decision was made in Tehran,[41]however he never consulted the Polish leadership.[42]When the Prime Minister of the Polish government-in-exileStanisław Mikołajczykattended theMoscow Conference (1944),he was convinced he was coming to discuss borders that were still disputed, while Stalin believed everything had already been settled. This was the principal reason for the failure of the Polish Prime Minister's mission to Moscow.[citation needed]The Polish premier allegedly begged for inclusion ofLwówandWilnoin the new Polish borders, but got the following reply fromVyacheslav Molotov:"There is no use discussing that; it was all settled in Tehran."[43]

Warsaw Uprising, 1944

Main article:Lack of outside support during the Warsaw Uprising
During World War II85% of buildings in Warsaw were destroyed by German troops.

Since the establishment of the Polish government-in-exile in Paris and then in London, the military commanders of the Polish army were focusing most of their efforts on preparation of a future all-national uprising against Germany. Finally the plans forOperation Tempestwere prepared and on 1 August 1944, theWarsaw Uprisingstarted. The Uprising was an armed struggle by the PolishHome Armyto liberate Warsaw from German occupation and Nazi rule.

Despite the fact that Polish and laterRoyal Air Force(RAF) planes flew missions over Warsaw dropping supplies from 4 August on, theUnited States Army Air Force(USAAF) planes did not join the operation. The Allies specifically requested the use of Red Army airfields near Warsaw on 20 August but were refused by Stalin on 22 August (he referred to the insurrectionists as "a handful of criminals" ). After Stalin's objections to support for the uprising, Churchill telegraphed Roosevelt on 25 August and proposed sending planes in defiance of Stalin and to "see what happens". Roosevelt replied on 26 August that "I do not consider it advantageous to the long-range general war prospect for me to join you in the proposed message to Uncle Joe."[44]The commander of the British air drop, Air Marshal SirJohn Slessor,later stated, "How, after the fall of Warsaw, any responsible statesman could trust the Russian Communist further than he could kick him, passes the comprehension of ordinary men."

Yalta, 1945

See also:Yalta Conference

The Yalta Conference (4-11 February 1945) acknowledged the era of Soviet domination of Central and Eastern Europe, subsequent to the Soviet occupation of these lands as they advanced against Nazi Germany. This domination lasted until theend of Communist rule in Central and Eastern Europe in late 1989and thecollapse of the Soviet Union in December 1991and left bitter memories of Western betrayal and Soviet dominance in the collective memory of the region.[45]To manyPolish Americans,the Yalta conference "constituted a betrayal" of Poland and theAtlantic Charter.[46]"After World War II," remarkedStrobe Talbott,"many countries in the (center and) east suffered half a century under the shadow of Yalta."[45]Territories which the Soviet Union had occupied during World War II in 1939 (with the exception of theBiałystokarea) were permanently annexed, and most of their Polish inhabitants expelled: today these territories are part ofBelarus,Ukraine,andLithuania.The factual basis of this decision was the result of a forged referendum from November 1939 in which the "huge majority" of voters accepted the incorporation of these lands into western Belarus and western Ukraine. In compensation, Poland was given former German territory (the so-calledRecovered Territories): the southern half ofEast Prussiaand all ofPomeraniaandSilesia,up to theOder–Neisse line.The German population of these territorieswas expelled in massesand these territories were subsequently repopulated with Poles includingPoles expelledfrom theKresyregions. This, along with other similar migrations in Central and Eastern Europe, combined to formone of the largest human migrations in modern times.Stalin ordered Polish resistance fighters to be either incarcerated or deported togulagsin Siberia.

At the time of Yalta over 200,000 troops of thePolish Armed Forces in the Westwere serving under the high command of the British Army. Many of these men and women were originally from theKresyregion of eastern Poland including cities such asLwówandWilno.They had been deported from Kresy to the Soviet gulags when Hitler and Stalin occupied Poland in 1939 in accordance with theNazi–Soviet Pact.Two years later, when Churchill and Stalin formed an alliance against Hitler, the Kresy Poles were released from the Gulags in Siberia, formed theAnders Army,and marched toIranto create theII Corps (Poland)under British high command. These Polish troops contributed to the Allied defeat of the Germans in North Africa and Italy, and hoped to return to Kresy in an independent and democratic Poland at the end of the War. But at Yalta, the borders agreed in Tehran in 1943 were finalized meaning that Stalin would keep the Soviet gains Hitler agreed to in the Nazi–Soviet Pact, including Kresy, and carry outPolish population transfers.These transfers included the land Poland gained at Tehran in the West, at the expense of Germany. Consequently, at Yalta, it was agreed that tens of thousands of veteran Polish troops under British command should lose their Kresy homes to the Soviet Union.[47]In reaction, thirty officers and men from the II Corps committed suicide.[48]

Churchill defended his actions in a three-day Parliamentary debate starting 27 February 1945, which ended in avote of confidence.During the debate, many MPs openly criticised Churchill and passionately voiced loyalty to Britain's Polish allies and expressed deep reservations about Yalta.[48]Moreover, 25 of these MPs risked their careers to draft an amendment protesting against Britain's tacit acceptance of Poland's domination by the Soviet Union. These members includedArthur Greenwood,Viscount Dunglass,CommanderArchibald Southby,theLord Willoughby de Eresby,andVictor Raikes.[48]After the failure of the amendment,Henry Strauss,theMember of ParliamentforNorwich,resigned his seat in protest at the British treatment of Poland.[48]

Before the Second World War ended, the Soviets installed a pro-Soviet regime. Although President Roosevelt "insisted on free and unfettered" elections in Poland,Vyacheslav Molotovinstead managed to deliver an election fair by "Soviet standards."[49]As many as half a million Polish soldiers refused to return to Poland,[50]because of theSoviet repressions of Polish citizens,theTrial of the Sixteen,and other executions of pro-democracy Poles, particularly the so-calledcursed soldiers,former members of theArmia Krajowa.The result was thePolish Resettlement Act 1947,[51]Britain's first mass immigration law.

Yalta was used by ruling communists to underlineanti-Western sentimentin Poland.[52][53]It was easy to argue that Poland was not very important to the West, since Allied leaders sacrificed Polish borders, legal government, and free elections for future peace between the Allies and the Soviet Union.[54][55][56]

On the other hand, some authors have pointed out that Yalta allowed the Polish communists to win over Polish nationalists by allowing them to realize their goal to annex and resettle formerly German land.[57]

TheFederal Republic of Germany(West Germany), formed in 1949, was portrayed by Communist propaganda as the breeder of Hitler's posthumous offspring who desired retaliation and wanted to take back from Poland the "Recovered Territories"[58]that had been home of more than 8 million Germans. Giving this picture a grain of credibility was that West Germany until 1970 refused torecognize the Oder-Neisse Line as the German-Polish border,and that some West German officials had a tainted Nazi past. For a segment of Polish public opinion, Communist rule was seen as the lesser of the two evils.

Defenders of the actions taken by the Western allies maintain thatRealpolitikmade it impossible to do anything else, and that they were in no shape to start an utterly un-winnable war with the Soviet Union over the subjugation of Poland and other Central and Eastern European countries immediately after the end of World War II. It could be contended that the presence of a double standard with respect to Nazi and Soviet aggression existed in 1939 and 1940, when the Soviets attacked the eastern part of Poland, then the Baltic States, and then Finland, and yet the Western Allies chose not to intervene in those theatres of the war.

The chief American negotiator at Yalta wasAlger Hiss,later accused of being a Soviet spy and convicted ofperjuringhimself in his testimony to theHouse Committee on Unamerican Activities.This accusation was later corroborated by theVenonatapes. In 2001,James Barron,a staff reporter forThe New York Times,identified what he called a "growing consensus that Hiss, indeed, had most likely been a Soviet agent."[59]

At the war's end many of these feelings of resentment were capitalised on by the occupying Soviets, who used them to reinforce anti-Western sentiments within Poland. Propaganda was produced by Communists to show the Soviet Union as the Great Liberator, and the West as the Great Traitor. For instance, Moscow'sPravdareported in February 1944 that all Poles who valued Poland's honour and independence were marching with the "Union of Polish Patriots" in the USSR.[60]

Aborted Yalta agreement enforcement plans

Further information:Operation Unthinkable

At some point in the spring of 1945, Churchill commissioned a contingency military enforcement operation plan (war on the Soviet Union) to obtain a "square deal for Poland" (Operation Unthinkable), which resulted in a May 22 report stating unfavorable success odds.[61]The report's arguments included geostrategic issues (possible Soviet-Japanese alliance resulting in moving of Japanese troops from continent to Home Islands, threat to Iran and Iraq) and uncertainties concerning land battles in Europe.[62]

Bulgaria, Greece, Hungary, Romania and Yugoslavia

Main article:Percentages agreement

During theFourth Moscow Conferencein 1944, Soviet premierJoseph Stalinand British prime ministerWinston Churchilldiscussed how to divide various European countries intospheres of influence.[63][64][65]Churchill's account of the incident is that Churchill suggested that theSoviet Unionshould have 90 percent influence inRomaniaand 75 percent inBulgaria;the United Kingdom should have 90 percent in Greece; with a 50–50 share in Hungary andYugoslavia.The two foreign ministers,Anthony EdenandVyacheslav Molotov,negotiated about the percentage shares on October 10 and 11. The result of these discussions was that the percentages of Soviet influence in Bulgaria and, more significantly, Hungary were amended to 80 percent.

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