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Polish Election and Yalta Commitments

Russia · Government / Government of Russia. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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Chronological records

1947

Joseph Stalin19 January 1947

Poland · Government / Government of Russia

Poland holds elections under a Soviet-dominated political system, intensifying Western claims that Yalta's free-election commitments were not fulfilled.

Names involved

Joseph Stalin

Provenance

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