Pressie writes:
On my limited experience in Poland, I learned that a lot of Polish people do despise the British. The aftermath of WW2. A lot of Poles think that the British sold them out to the USSR after the war. A lot of people in Poland despise the Brits.
Either you're mistaken that Poles despise the Brits for not defending them after WWII or the Poles are engaging in some seriously misplaced blame. After the war strategically it would have been impossible, even with the full support of the US. The western allies recognized that it would be a race from opposite sides of Europe between they and the Soviet Union for where the post war boundaries would be drawn. That the Soviet Union would control postwar Poland was already a foregone conclusion by 1944 as they overran German forces in Poland and entered Germany.
Politics followed the realities of the war. After the fall of Poland in 1939 the Poles set up a government in exile in France under Prime Minister Wladyslaw Sikorski (I'm a WWII buff but by no means an expert, so I'm drawing upon Wikipedia, e.g.,
Wladyslaw Sikorski), but with the fall of France in 1940 that government had to move to Britain. Was that Polish government given assurances by Britain that they would guarantee Polish independence after the war? That seems possible early in the war, maybe 1940 and 1941, but by 1943 after all the German successes and allied setbacks there were no doubts that Poland would fall under Soviet influence. At that point Sikorski hoped that Poland's borders might merely move westward, ceding land to the Soviet Union while gaining land from Germany, but in 1943 he was killed in a plane crash.
Sikorski's successor, Stanislaw Mikolajczyk, was not even invited to the Tehran Conference (1943) where the allies discussed how postwar Europe would be divided, ceding eastern Poland to the Soviets. This was not only reaffirmed at the Yalta Conference in 1945, it was further recognized that all of Poland would be under the Soviet sphere of influence, and this was formalized at the Potsdam conference later that year after the defeat of Germany. Stalin had already set up a puppet government in Poland.
Even if Britain's sole determination after the war was to free Poland from Soviet domination, it could not have happened. Even if America had joined Britain in such an effort it could not have happened. Poland was adjacent to the Soviet Union (which after the war dominated all of eastern Europe), and that fact of geography is not Britain's fault.
The Poles may also be forgetting how economically devastated Britain was after WWII, though of course not physically devastated like France or Germany or Poland. Rationing in Britain continued for a number of years after the war.
--Percy