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??? Do you have a source that it was seen as a betrayal? Poland was under Soviet control before the war ended.
That's like French communist partisans that fought for 5 years being angry at the Soviets for selling France to the Western Allies.
You can't sell what you don't own.
https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/the-yalta-conference-at-seventy-five-lessons-from-history/
https://carnegieendowment.org/posts/2020/02/the-yalta-conference-was-more-than-a-victors-feast?lang=en
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1997/08/18/betrayal-at-yalta/eb3e17d5-d685-4867-9c66-90efcf875c5b/
I read that entire first article and nowhere does it claim the Polish people thought that the West sold them to Soviets.
"This [agreement on Poland] is so elastic that the Russians can stretch it all the way from Yalta to Washington without ever technically breaking it,” Admiral William Leahy, Chief of Staff to Franklin Roosevelt.
“I know, Bill, but it is the best I can do for Poland at this time,” Franklin Roosevelt.
It reiterated what I wrote: You can't sell what you don't own.
The other links are paywalled. But I can see the last one was written by Robert Novack- a notorious right wing journalist. He would write anything to make a Democrat look bad. In this case, FDR.
Hell yeah brother. Fact check those fascists