POLAND AND RUSSIA
[To the Editor of Tint SPECTATOR.]
SIR,—YOD praise the Finns for the election of an anti-German President and condemn the Germans for their fear of Bol- shevism. Why do you not visit Russia disguised as a working man ? Then you would surely be cured of your unhealthy sympathies for Stalin and the Madrid Government, as were Gide, Celine and many others. We know in Poland the truth about Russia, because we receive daily fugitives from Moscow and if you care for Western civilisation please read at least the two volumes of Tchernavin and his wife published by Hamish Hamilton in 1933 and 1935: Escape from the Soviets, by Tatiana Tchernavin, and I Speak for the Silent, by Wladimir Tchernavin. There are now dozens of such books in English by reliable witnesses about the terrible mental alienation of the rulers of Russia who have undertaken lately the conquest of Spain. What you say that they could easily conquer Finland and the Baltic States is simply not true. You forget that the Bolsheviks were beaten by Poland in 1920 and any aggression of a Baltic State would immediately cause war, and a new defeat worse than 15 year's ago, which the Russians remember though you have forgotten it. The safety of Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania is due to one of the greatest battles
.of history, at Warsaw in 1920. Whoever wishes to under- stand the present situation must recognise the danger of Bolshevism and the merit of Poland in saving Europe in 1920 when it was easy for the Russians to conquer Germany if Poland had not stopped them—Yours sincerely, W. LUTOSLAWSKI.
Ul. Szwedzka zo, Debniki-Krakdw XL
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