title: Imagery of the Yalta Conference in the discourse of the Post-World War II emigration
abstract: Over half a million Poles are estimated not to return to Communist-controlled Poland from the West after the Second World War. This wave of migrants comprised war exiles, ex-servicemen who had fought in the Polish Armed Forces in the West and Displaced Persons. This article identifies selected images, symbolic representations and mythic narratives interwoven into the Polish post-WWII emigrant discourse. The focus is on the meeting of the "Big Three" at Yalta in February 1945, its symbolic repres
journal: Jagiellonian University Repository (Jagiellonian University)