In 1945, only a few weeks after the conference at Yalta, a group of 16 Polish underground leaders was invited to Moscow to discuss Russian-occupied Poland's private problems. Carrying with it a Russian general's "word of honor" that its "personal safety is assured," the group headed for Russia. One of the group's leaders was General Leopold Okulicki, who succeeded General Bor as leader of the home underground army that fought the Nazis and then, in a vain bid to stop the transfer of Poland from Nazi to Red rule, harassed the on-moving Red army. Soon after crossing the border, the...
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