What if, for whatever reason, Poland had kept its second republic borders post WW2. How likely is it Stalin would let Poland keep those borders to begin with?
I'm thinking mostly about how this would've affected the minorities in the east - Ukrainians, Belarusians, Lithuanians etc. Would Poland keeping Lviv make the idea of a Ukrainian state much harder to execute, seeing how Ukrainians would be split between two countries and Lviv arguably being the cultural capital of Ukraine? Would the same thing happen to Belarusians?
I'm thinking mostly about how this would've affected the minorities in the east - Ukrainians, Belarusians, Lithuanians etc. Would Poland keeping Lviv make the idea of a Ukrainian state much harder to execute, seeing how Ukrainians would be split between two countries and Lviv arguably being the cultural capital of Ukraine? Would the same thing happen to Belarusians?