Cóż będzie dalej? Nieznany list gen. broni Kazimierza Sosnkowskiego z roku 1945 o sytuacji międzynarodowej i perspektywach sprawy polskiej
What lies ahead? General Kazimierz Sosnkowski’s unknown Letter from 1945 on the International Situation and Prospects for the Polish Cause

Summary/Abstract: After his dismissal from the post of Commander-in-Chief, General Kazimierz Sosnkowski was given a leave of absence and via New York he went to Canada to visit his juvenile sons, who were evacuated there. Unintentionally, Canada became a place of his half-internment. From across the ocean he followed the development of the international situation, the assessment of which he presented, among others, in a letter to a former trusted subordinate, Colonel Franciszek Demel. Sosnkowski aptly predicted a number of events and socio-political processes of the near and far future. For example, he forecast the imminent disbanding of the Polish Armed Forces in the West, the end of Stanisław Mikołajczyk’s activity in Stalin-controlled Poland, or the constant expansion of Russian imperialism. He also showed the backstage and effects of his removal from the post of Commander-in-Chief, which made the process of dismantling the army in exile much quicker, and due to which the opportunities for securing a better existence of soldiers in exile and funds for organized independence activity in the free world were lost. The General’s statement presents a clear-headed assessment of the political activity of the highest Polish state and military authorities in the last months of the World War II, and carefully analyzes the behind-the-scenes personal games which led, for example, to the dismissal of General Władysław Anders from the post of Acting Commander-in-Chief in favor of General Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski. This document is an interesting material for researchers of the beginnings of post-war emigration, the process of dismantling the Polish Armed Forces, and finally makes a valuable contribution to the biographers of Kazimierz Sosnkowski.

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