AHC: Largest Possible Poland, post 1900

Inspired by the various Polish threads which have been floating around, what is the largest Poland possible with a POD no earlier than 1900?
 

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Inspired by the various Polish threads which have been floating around, what is the largest Poland possible with a POD no earlier than 1900?
For plausibility probably OTL inter- war Poland. If we go Pole wank: inter-war Poland with Danzig, more of Silesia, parts of Eastern Prussia, and Dniepr as the border with the USSR.
 
After civil war Russia was divided between Reds and Whites-Poland helped Whites under condition that they will agree for Polish eastern border along Dmowski Line (OTL border of Second Polish Republic plus Minsk and Kamieniec), weakened Russia is not danger for Poland. After Nazi collapse (say France turns facist, allied with Italy, Poland and Czechoslovakia, blocked Nazi attemps to expand at cost of Austria and Czechia, leading to Reich bankruptcy) Poland seize opportunity to get Danzig, Upper Silesia and Masuria.
 
For plausibility probably OTL inter- war Poland. If we go Pole wank: inter-war Poland with Danzig, more of Silesia, parts of Eastern Prussia, and Dniepr as the border with the USSR.

Nitpick: inter-war Poland probably can't be expanded all the way to the Dniepr. If the National Democrats (who wanted a unitary state) get to decide the border, they'll reject offers of territory east of the OTL border (with the possible exception of the Minsk area and maybe a very small scrap of Ukraine), as they believed that anything more would be quite impossible to assimilate. I rather doubt if, even with a PoD in 1900, this view would be altered. (However, they might possibly also make a bid for Lithuania if they can get away with it easily.) If the state which includes Poland expands all the way to that river, it means that someone federated it with Ukraine and Belorussia. While it will be dominated by Poles, wether this entiety can be properly called Poland is questionable.
 
In 1920 Russia was prepared to give up territory to approximately the prepartition border.
 
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