ABSTRACT
The Politburo’s decision to turn down Lloyd George’s “offer” of lands “which had never belonged to the Russian Empire” in return for a quiet and permanent cessation of its further westward thrust must have come as a surprise to Lloyd George. In this chapter, Nowak analyzes the differences of opinion between the four decision-makers in the Politburo and how their final decision was reached. Here and in several other chapters, he quotes Soviet source documents which he saw and read in Moscow archives before 2015 and which are now inaccessible not only to him but presumably to most Western researchers. These documents prove beyond all doubt that the Bolsheviks had no intention to stop their westward drive at the Curzon Line but to press on, once they had taken Poland, join up with their comrades in Germany, and spread the Revolution throughout Continental Europe.
