ABSTRACT
Before the Conference of Yalta had assembled, Stalin applied himself to organizing his task of controlling and supervising the civil and military activities of the USSR so that they might proceed without interruption. The principles of the 'coup de grâce offensive', as he called it in his order of the day to the Red Army, were perfected. The Governments of Lublin and London had declared war–a pitiless war. Now, Stalin had already insisted that the future government of Poland, which would be subject to the Soviet Government, should accept as the eastern frontier the Curzon line, leaving the territories which were ethnically Ukrainian and White Russian to the USSR. Before a further meeting with the President of the USA. Stalin accordingly tried to enlarge the future Government of Lublin by accepting representatives of the London Government and of the Polish resistance groups, on condition that all should solemnly recognize the Curzon line.
