Eastern node. Prognosis with the Soviets

If Paderewski agreed to the Federation formula, But he counted very much with Western friends, After his departure, Piłsudski and Wasilewski regained their free hand and could experiment in their own way. Leopold Skulski was the head of the government, business policy, who in the Sejm was bailed to most "central from unification to the people", And Stanisław Patek took on the Minister of Foreign Affairs, eloquent criminal defender with liberal and cultural tastes, But without experience and program. Polish troops have been dealt with from autumn Bobrujsk (28 VIII), Boris (11 IX) and the Lunieniec-Horyń line. The Republic of Council still fought for the existence: After Kołczak and Judenicz, General Denikin was tempted to rebuild the tsarist, recognized and supported by ENTENTA.

The moment seemed to be a historically hitting the Ukrainian node. Halicka Ruthenia was crystallized thanks to Austria, but against Poland; Volhynia with you poorly combined; Kiev region after the coup 1917-1918 r. showed emancipation tendencies, and the great left -bank Ukraine was a mystery. As managers of the people, the dictator Petruszewicz came out – enemy of Poland, Rakowskij from the east introduced where communism could; Ataman Semen Petlura Z Pawlenką I in. They sympathized with Warsaw and found a supporter in Piłsudski, because also Denikin threatened him and Rakowski. Day 21 April 1920 r. Belvedere with Petlura League, by the power of which Ukrainians in exchange for help against the Bolsheviks gave up Galicia. At the same time, Piłsudski endured with Denikin to examine his intentions and to scare the Soviets and, by Captain Boerner, which he calmed down, that Poland does not want to be a gendarme of the coalition. When Lenin did not accept the conditions (Petlura intolerance, granting the Latvian Daugavpils, abandoning communist agitation in Poland), Piłsudski interrupted these secret conversations. It looked like this in public, as if the parties could not communicate about the place of negotiations. Soviet (Cziczerin) They proposed peace, And on strangely favorable conditions: were to recognize the independence of the Republic of Poland, do not exceed the then front line in Belarus and Ukraine, not to be concluded with Germany or with anyone treaties against Poland. In February, the Central Soviet Executive Committee approved this proposal. The head of the state saw in these words only a insidious attempt to wait a embarrassing situation and during the winter he armed against the Soviets in addition to the Polish Army, also Ukrainian Formations of Petlura and the Belarusian gene. Bułhak-Bałachowicz, Meanwhile, he delayed the answer. He spoke, that "the Bolsheviks will beat where he likes and does not need to be arranged with them".