Time To Review Poland’s Grand Strategy in the East Giedroyć – Mieroszewski Doctrine – Is Now. Part 1

Juliusz Mieroszewski and Jerzy Giedroyć, remaining in exile in the West after the last world war, formulated a geopolitical doctrine which contained a simple maxim: “there can be no free Poland without a free Lithuania, Belarus and Ukraine.” The editor-in-chief of the Paris-based journal Kultura and his important collaborator called for recognition of the subjectivity and self-decision making of Belarusians, Ukrainians and Lithuanians, to help them regain independence regardless of whether they will be loyal to Poland in the future or not.