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Anniversary of the Sikorski–Mayski Agreement
Today marks 82 years since the signing of the Polish-Soviet treaty on 30 July 1941, which passed down in history as the Sikorski-Mayski Agreement. The document formally re-establish diplomatic relations, which had been broken after the USSR's aggression against Poland on 17 September 1939.
Pursuant to the agreement, prisoners-of-war and other Polish citizens detained by the Soviet authorities were to regain their freedom. Further arrangements, despite many concessions from the Polish side, especially on the question of the shifted Polish-Soviet border after the Red Army entered Poland in September, allowed the reconstitution of Polish army units on the Soviet Union territory. Poles released from prisons and labour camps were allowed to join the ranks of the army, whose command was given to General Władysław Anders.