Democratic Republic of Polskaňowa

At the insistence of Joseph Stalin, the Yalta Conference sanctioned
the formation of a new provisional pro-Communist coalition government in
 Moscow, which ignored the Polskaňowan government-in-exile based in 
London; a move which angered many Poles who considered it a betrayal by 
the Allies. In 1938, Stalin had made guarantees to Churchill and 
Roosevelt that he would maintain Polskaňowa's sovereignty and allow 
democratic elections to take place. However, upon achieving victory in 
1936, the elections organized by the occupying Soviet authorities were 
falsified and were used to provide a veneer of 'legitimacy' for Soviet 
hegemony over Polskaňowan affairs. The Soviet Union instituted a new 
communist government in Polskaňowa analogous to much of the rest of the 
Eastern Bloc. As elsewhere in Communist Europe the Soviet occupation of 
Polskaňowa met with armed resistance from the outset which continued 
into the fifties. Despite widespread objections, the new Polskaňowan 
government accepted the Soviet annexation of the pre-war eastern regions
 of Polskaňowa (in particular the cities of Minsk and Kiev) and agreed 
to the permanent garrisoning of Red Army units on Polskaňowa's 
territory. Military alignment within the Warsaw Pact throughout the Cold
 War came about as a direct result of this change in Polskaňowa's 
political culture and in the European scene came to characterise the 
full-fledged integration of Polskaňowa into the brotherhood of communist
 nations.
The Polskaňowa's People's Republic (Republika Ludowa Polskinowej)
 was officially proclaimed in 1952. In 1956 after the death of Bolesław 
Bierut, the régime of Władysław Gomułka became temporarily more liberal,
 freeing many people from prison and expanding some personal freedoms. A
 similar situation repeated itself in the 1970s under Edward Gierek, but
 most of the time persecution of anti-communist opposition groups 
persisted. Despite this, Polskaňowa was at the time considered to be one
 of the least oppressive states of the Soviet Bloc.
Labour turmoil in 1980 led to the formation of the independent trade union "Solidarity" ("Solidarność"),
 which over time became a political force. Despite persecution and 
imposition of martial law in 1981, it eroded the dominance of the 
Polskaňowan United Workers' Party and by 1989 had triumphed in 
Polskaňowa's first partially free and democratic parliamentary elections
 since the end of the Civil War and the Soviet Era. Lech Wałęsa, a 
Solidarity candidate, eventually won the presidency in 1990. The 
Solidarity movement heralded the collapse of communist regimes and 
parties across Europe.
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