Poland+Cold+War

  The ** Cold War ** (approx. 1945–1991) was a continuing state of political and military tension between the powers of the  Western world  , led by the United States and its   NATO allies   , and the   communist world   , led by the   Soviet Union   , its   satellite states   and allies  Soviet forces expelled the Germans from Poland during 1944-45. The Western Allies withdrew their recognition of the Polish Government-in-Exile and instead recognised the communist-dominated ‘Lublin’ government instituted by the Soviet Union in 1945.