Spostrzeżenia posła RP w Rio de Janeiro Tadeusza Skowrońskiego na temat stosunków brazylijsko-sowieckich i tzw. sprawy polskiej
Observations of the Polish Representative in Rio de Janeiro, Tadeusz Skowroński, on Brazilian-Soviet Relations and the So-Called Polish Cause

Summary/Abstract: Brazil – somewhat in spite of its remote geographic location – played a considerable role in the diplomacy of the Second Republic. This role increased even more after 1939 in connection with the war. Indeed, South America became an area of diplomatic struggle between the Axis states and the Western powers. Brazil – ruled since 1930 by President Getúlio Vargas – hesitated for a long time before it joined the conflict on the side of the Allies in 1942. After its entry, the attitude of the country’s authorities towards the Soviets, hitherto strongly critical, changed. The Polish representative in Rio de Janeiro, Tadeusz Skowroński, observed these events. In 1945, the country under the Southern Cross was already heading straight into the arms of Moscow, withdrawing its previous support for what was known as the Polish cause. At the same time, the head of the Polish legation was sinking into political defeatism, seeing no prospect of reversing these trends, especially as Vargas’s authoritarian dictatorship was clearly weakening.

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