<P> These Polish troops were instrumental to the Allied defeat of the Germans in North Africa and Italy, and hoped to return to Kresy in an independent and democratic Poland at the end of the War . But at Yalta, Churchill agreed that Stalin should keep the Soviet gains Hitler agreed to in the Nazi--Soviet Pact, including Kresy, and carry out Polish population transfers . Consequently, Churchill had agreed that tens of thousands of veteran Polish troops under British command should lose their Kresy homes to the Soviet Union . In reaction, thirty officers and men from the II Corps committed suicide . </P> <P> Churchill defended his actions in a three - day Parliamentary debate starting 27 February 1945, which ended in a vote of confidence . During the debate, many MPs openly criticised Churchill and passionately voiced loyalty to Britain's Polish allies and expressed deep reservations about Yalta . Moreover, 25 of these MPs risked their careers to draft an amendment protesting against Britain's tacit acceptance of Poland's domination by the Soviet Union . These members included Arthur Greenwood, Sir Alec Douglas - Home, Commander Archibald Southby, the Earl of Ancaster, and Victor Raikes . After the failure of the amendment, Henry Strauss, the Member of Parliament for Norwich, resigned his seat in protest at the British treatment of Poland . </P> <P> Before the Second World War ended, the Soviets installed a pro-Soviet regime . Although president Roosevelt "insisted on free and unfettered" elections in Poland, Vyacheslav Molotov instead managed to deliver an election fair by "Soviet standards ." As many as half a million Polish soldiers refused to return to Poland, because of the Soviet repressions of Polish citizens, the Trial of the Sixteen and other executions of pro-democracy Poles, particularly the so - called cursed soldiers, former members of the Armia Krajowa . The result was the Polish Resettlement Act 1947, Britain's first mass immigration law . </P> <P> Yalta was used by ruling communists to underline anti-Western sentiments . It was easy to argue that Poland was not very important to the West, since Allied leaders sacrificed Polish borders, legal government, and free elections . </P>

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