These accords, reached without the presence or consent of Poles, left Poland in the Soviet sphere of interest. Perhaps he recalled the Treaty of Riga, which ended the Polish-Bolshevik War in 1921, and left most of Ukraine under Bolshevik control. Józewski had worked to persuade Ukrainians in Poland and in the Soviet Union to believe that, some day, war would come and everything could change again. Perhaps the world of Yalta could be resisted, just as the world of Riga had been. As far as Józewski was concerned, both were unjust, Poland was not innocent, and Poland’s duty to Ukraine and itself
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