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Premiered on 22 September 2023

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Hello everyone!
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In my today’s video I will tell you about the mysterious Gomberg’s map.
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You will find out what kind of map it was, in what political conditions
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it was created and who was its author.
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You will also learn the goals that guided its creation.
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This is a topic that has been brought up many times in discussions
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that took place after the premieres of my videos.
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And that’s why I decided to take it.
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And the Golden Patrons of the channel
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are Mrs. Ewa Szemraj and Mr. Andrzej Maciejewski from Alaska,
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as well Mr. Mariusz Igancy Godlewski.
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KNOW THE TRUTH
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One of the Greatest Mysteries of the 20th Century. Gomberg’s Mysterious Map
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Many times in your comments on the most important events of the 20th century,
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which I took up in my videos, there was a thread related to Gomberg’s map.
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The name doesn’t tell us much.
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Gomberg’s map is not mentioned in history textbooks
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or even in historical studies on the 20th century, at least in Poland.
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But this does not mean at all that the Gomberg map is a fiction
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that was born in the minds of history seekers and sensationalists.
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Gomberg’s map does exist,
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although it has never been and still is not of interest to professional historians.
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This is a pity, because this is a topic that has not yet been well researched.
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Gomberg’s map can be found in the US Library of Congress
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in the Geography and Map Division,
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where it is registered under the control number gm70005331 and
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marked with the appropriate stamp of this library, dated March 31, 1942.
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From the library catalogue, where you can find a description of Gomberg’s map,
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we learn that it appeared in the USA in Philadelphia, PA at the beginning of 1942.
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Its author was supposed to be a certain Maurice Gomberg,
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who is supposed to own the copyright to it.
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The map was precisely titled “Outline of Post-War New World Map”.
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Its subtitle, in turn, speaks of a new world order
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and is precisely “New World Moral Order”.
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The most intriguing is under what circumstances
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and why Gomberg’s map was created.
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Let’s start with the fact that Gomberg’s map
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was most likely created in the summer of 1941.
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It was a unique moment in the history of the then ongoing war.
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On June 22, 1941, the German Wehrmacht attacked the Soviet Union
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and advanced deep into its territory, getting closer and closer to Moscow.
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The leader of the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin, was in dire need of allies
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who could come to his aid.
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The United States was not yet a participant in the war.
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Only a few months later, after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
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on December 7, 1941, the Americans were forced to become involved.
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In any case, in the summer of 1941,
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American President Franklin Delano Roosevelt was aware
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that sooner or later his country would have to get involved.
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And already then he began to think about
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how to drag the Soviet Union to the Allied camp.
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It became even more obvious to him in the situation at the time.
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Roosevelt also began to dream of becoming the world’s savior in this war.
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After its end, to build a new world order
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and set up a new international organization to guard this order.
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It was clear to him that this would make history forever.
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And these dreams, after some time, became a political plan for him,
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which he intended to implement.
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The first step in the implementation of this plan was
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the announcement in August 1941 by Roosevelt,
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together with the British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, of the Atlantic Charter.
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It was supposed to define new rules that were to apply in international politics.
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A month later, the Soviets signed the Atlantic Charter
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as full members of the allied coalition.
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And this is exactly the situation in which the Gomberg map was created.
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Except that Maurice Gomberg was not its author at all.
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It is difficult to assume that an unknown watchmaker
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drew a map of the new world order that was to exist after the war.
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Typically, a map is the work of a professional cartographer
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who has produced many other maps.
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Meanwhile, Maurice Gomberg never had such achievements.
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He was a modest Jewish immigrant from Eastern Europe
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who came to the United States and there he dabbled in watchmaking on a daily basis.
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Gomberg also sympathized with the American communists,
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although it is not entirely clear whether he was actually a member
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of the Communist Party of the United States of America.
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He passionately read the Yiddish daily Morgen Freiheit,
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which at that time was the mouthpiece of communism
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and the interests of the Soviet Union in America.
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Due to Gomberg’s political sympathies,
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the American FBI became interested in him after some time.
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It is possible that Gomberg made contact with it and started close cooperation.
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The secrets of this cooperation are probably hidden in the FBI archives.
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There are many indications that Gomberg only lent his name to authorize the map,
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for which he was to be paid for by transferring the copyright to it.
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In this way, by the hand of Maurice Gomberg,
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an unknown American watchmaker, and in addition sympathizing with the communists,
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a map of the new world that was supposed to exist
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after the end of World War II was created.
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As I have already mentioned to you earlier,
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it was probably created immediately after Hitler’s attack on the Soviet Union and
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after the announcement of the Atlantic Charter
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and the anointing of the Soviets with members of the anti-Hitler coalition.
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Naturally, this map also had to take into account the interests of the Soviet Union,
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especially in such a key issue as the division of the world.
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So what does Gomberg’s map represent?
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Let’s start with the fact that this map quite accurately depicts
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the bipolar division of the world that was to take place after the war
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between the United States and the Soviet Union.
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American influence, according to Gomberg’s map, was to include
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Canada, Mexico, Greenland, and most of the Pacific and Atlantic islands.
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On Gomberg’s map we also see two federations: South American and African.
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We also see the United States of Europe and the United Republic of China.
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France and Great Britain were virtually stripped of
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most of their overseas colonies on Gomberg’s map,
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as a consolation, Gomberg left to the British only
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Australia, New Zealand, Indonesia, Papua and New Guinea,
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which were to remain members of the British Commonwealth.
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The Soviet Union, on the other hand, was to rule all of Central and Eastern Europe.
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It was also to control Finland, Germany and Austria,
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gain access to the Indian Ocean and control Iran with its rich oil deposits.
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It is also worth taking a look at Poland on Gomberg’s map.
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Well, Poland on Gomberg’s map differs from the one
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finally created after the end of the war.
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Poland is a Soviet republic.
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Nor is it shifted as far to the West as it eventually did.
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Poland on Gomberg’s map is based on
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the eastern territories of the Second Polish Republic,
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East Prussia and has increased access to the Baltic Sea,
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more or less to Kołobrzeg and, of course, to Gdańsk.
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According to Gomberg’s map, Lviv and Vilnius were to remain with Poland.
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Poland also borders Hungary, Romania and Moldova,
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which, like her, were also supposed to be Soviet republics.
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In short, Poland on Gomberg’s map retains most of the Kresy,
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but the price for this was to be its direct subordination to Moscow.
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Equally interesting are the borders of our neighbors on Gomberg’s map.
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It maintained the division of Czechoslovakia into two republics – Czech and Slovak.
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It is worth mentioning that at the beginning of 1942,
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when Gomberg’s map was published,
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Slovakia was formally an independent country,
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although it fought alongside the Third Reich.
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There is no doubt that the world on Gomberg’s map
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was divided between the United States and the Soviet Union.
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And there is no doubt that this division was a dream of both Roosevelt and Stalin
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when Gomberg’s map was being created.
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The question arises, however, why the division of the world from Gomberg’s map
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was not finally implemented?
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The answer to this question is not at all simple.
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Perhaps the key reason why this did not happen
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was Roosevelt’s unbridled political ambitions
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to create a new post-war order and Stalin’s concerns about them.
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The latter, seeing the determination of the American president
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to design the world entirely in his own fashion,
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may have changed his mind at some point.
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Especially after Roosevelt died in April 1945
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and the United Nations was established to oversee the new world order.
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At this point, it is worth paying attention to the struggle of the Soviet Union
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at the UN forum in order to have additional votes in the UN General Assembly
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from the Ukrainian and Belarusian Soviet Republics.
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But despite the resistance of the Allies,
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Stalin finally succeeded in achieving this goal.
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Let us imagine, however, that the Soviet dictator decided to obtain such subjectivity
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also for Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and even Hungary,
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which, according to Gomberg’s map, were supposed to be Soviet republics,
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and not, at least seemingly, sovereign states.
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It would be rather impossible.
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And that is why Roosevelt’s project stood in the way for Stalin.
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As a result, Stalin preferred to focus on the expansion of communism
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in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe and install
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subordinate governments in them,
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rather than incorporating them directly into the Soviet Union.
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There are many indications that Gomberg’s map
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was intended as an attempt to probe American public opinion,
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which at the same time wanted to suggest
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that in order to maintain world peace in the future,
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only the United States and the Soviet Union are needed,
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which will build their spheres of influence.
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It is therefore very likely that the shape of our post-war borders,
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as it happened in the case of the borders
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of other Central and Eastern European countries,
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was the result of Stalin’s decision not to include the countries
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liberated by the Red Army directly into the Soviet Union.
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The consequence of this could also be that Stalin moved the border of the Soviet Union
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as far west as possible, which for us meant the loss of Kresy.
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In any case, Gomberg’s map is still a mystery.
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We are not aware of any source documents that would indicate that
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there was a discussion between representatives of the American and Soviet sides
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over the proposal to divide the world contained in Gomberg’s map.
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Perhaps the American supporters of Stalin, headed by President Rosvelt,
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at some point abandoned the idea
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of pushing through the project of dividing the world from Gomberg’s map.
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However, we do not know this for sure.
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ONLY TRUTH IS INTERESTING
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In my next video I will tell you about
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the Ukrainian rebellion in the borderlands in September 1939.
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You will find out what this rebellion actually looked like and who inspired it.
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You will also learn what the consequences of this rebellion were for Poland.
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I titled this film “The Ukrainian Rebellion in September 1939.”
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I warmly invite you to watch it.
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