ABSTRACT
This chapter argues that in 1945 the frontiers of Poland were accepted with great reluctance by Great Britain and by the United States. One of the things that in fact allowed Stalin to impose the government that was imposed in Warsaw in 1945 was the refusal of the home government in exile in London to accept the changes in frontiers and Britain as Poland's ally. Some unrest is often expressed when the discussions touch the problem of possible long-term consequences concerning these profound changes of Poland's neighbours in the East and West. Starting with the Soviet Union, it is recognized as extremely lucky that for the first time in the period after World War II the eruption of the democratic reforms in Poland and in the Soviet Union coincided at the same time. Even greater uncertainty and unrest is caused by the events in Poland's western neighbour, the German Democratic Republic.
