Opublikowane: 2024-12-251

The Poles and the Japanese in the struggle for the Soviet Far East in the 1930s

Volodymyr Komar , Adam Szymanowicz
Echa Przeszłości
Dział: ARTYKUŁY I ROZPRAWY
https://doi.org/10.31648/ep.10924

Abstrakt

 In the period between World War I and World War II, the Japanese sought intelligence cooperation with the Polish military intelligence service to obtain information about the military potential of the USSR. These efforts led to the exchange of intelligence between the two countries. In the discussed period, Prometheism, a political concept aimed at weakening the USSR through the separation of areas
inhabited by non-Russian nations from Soviet territory, became an important instrument of Poland’s Eastern policy. These nations included the Ukrainians, the Crimean Tatars, as well as the peoples of the Caucasus, Central Asia, Finland, and Siberia. After the 1932 uprising, the Japanese created a puppet state of Manchukuo to separate the conquered territories in Korea and future conquests from the USSR which posed a threat in the north. The Japanese also relied on the non-Russian nations inhabiting mainly the Russian Far East to weaken the Soviet Union. Ukrainians living in a region known as Zeleny Klyn played a major role in Japan’s plans. The Japanese considered the possibility of creating a sovereign Ukrainian state. In this respect, Polish and Japanese interests overlapped. However, in the early 1940s, Japan decided to direct its main military effort against the Western allies, and exploitation of non-Russian nations in Japan’s struggle against the USSR became a marginal issue.

Słowa kluczowe:

prometheism, Polish-Japanese intelligence cooperation, Soviet Far East, Ukrainian diaspora in Manchuria, military intelligence (Poland), military intelligence (Japan)

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Zasady cytowania

Komar, V., & Szymanowicz, A. (2024). The Poles and the Japanese in the struggle for the Soviet Far East in the 1930s. Echa Przeszłości, (XXV/2), 107–131. https://doi.org/10.31648/ep.10924

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