The foreign policy of the Polish bourgeois government from the very beginning of the formation of independent Poland (November 1918) was directed mainly to the East. From the very first days of coming to power, the head of state and Supreme Commander-in-Chief Yu. Pilsudski set about preparing a war against the Soviet republics of Lithuania and Belarus, and eventually against Soviet Russia. The Polish government portrayed the Red Army's assistance to the population of Lithuania and Belarus in liberating them from the German invaders and restoring Soviet power as an act of aggression against Poland, a continuation of the colonial policy of tsarism. Official propaganda, in an attempt to intimidate the country's public, claimed that Poland was threatened by an invasion by the Red Army, which was trying to impose the Soviet system on the Poles by force of arms, and that therefore it was necessary to start a war against Soviet Russia and thereby protect the country from a "Bolshevik invasion". The Polish bourgeoisie with criminal levity pushed the country on the path of war, instead of strengthening the state that had emerged in the difficult conditions of economic devastation caused by the war and the German-Austrian occupation. The real aggressive goals of the ruling elite of Poland, namely the annexation of the territories of Lithuania, Belarus and Ukraine and the overthrow of the Soviet government there, which by the very fact of its existence exerted a powerful influence on the social struggle of the Polish people, were hidden from the public of the country and world public opinion.
Polish society was not united in its attitude to Soviet Russia. The Communist Workers 'Party of Poland (KRPP), the PPS-Opposition (Polish Socialist Party) and the Soviets of Workers' Deputies resolutely exposed the anti-Soviet propaganda of the ruling circles. "The cries of the bourgeoisie and the' fraks '(members of the PPS-fraction. - V. G.) about 'Bolshevik aggression', "the KRPP noted ...
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