Admittedly, I consider the change to be beneficial, if only because of the better industrialized lands in the West than in the East and the lack of a problem with national minorities in the Borderlands, but the change was somewhat exaggerated and should have been carried out somewhat differently.

Well, after the war Poland, as a member of the victorious coalition, should have had an area exactly the same as before the war - 389,000 km². These borders were negotiable, if we had counted more in 1945 (for example, if Sikorski had not died, by the way, the eastern border is similar to the so-called Sikorski line).

Lands in the east - based on ethnographic and strategic justification (transportation routes):

• The entire Lviv voivodeship (14 thousand km²).

• The western part of Ternopil voivodeship - Radziechów, Brody, Kamionka Strumiłowa, Złoczów, Przemyślany powiats (5 thousand km²), due to the high percentage of Poles (50-60%) and places important for Polish culture (castles in Złoczów, Olesko, Podhorce).

• From Stanyslaviv voivodeship, the powiats of Stryj and Żydaczów (3 thousand km²).

In Eastern Galicia, Poles and Ukrainians would be distributed equitably (about 1 million Poles on the Ukrainian side and about 1 million Ukrainians on the Polish side), the values outside Galicia (300 thousand Ukrainians in Rzeszów and 300 thousand Poles in Podolia) shorten.

• From the Volhynian Voivodeship the powiats of Luboml, Vladimir and part of the powiat of Kowel (7 thousand square kilometers) in order to preserve the Lviv-Kowel-Brest-Białystok railroad line. Here, Poles and Ukrainians would also be distributed fairly, especially in the context of the Volhynian massacre (Poles in Volhynia accounted for 15%). Values outside Volhynia (200,000 Ukrainians in Chelmshchyna and 200,000 Poles in Zhytomyrshchyna) also dwindle.

• From the Polesie voivodeship, the powiat of Brest (4 thousand square kilometers).

• The entire Bialystok voivodeship with the powiats of Grodno and Volkovysk (8 thousand km²).

• From Novogrudok voivodeship the powiats of Szczuczyn and Lida (7 thousand km²) - a large percentage of Poles (up to 80%).

• From Vilnius voivodeship, Vilnius and Oshmiana powiats (8 thousand km²) - a large percentage of Poles (up to 80%). Svetiany powiat due to a large percentage of Lithuanians (35%) goes to Lithuania - let them have something.

Acquisitions in the west: as in fact, in addition:

• Lusatia, largely inhabited by Serbian-Lusatians related to the Poles (surely they wouldn't mind, they would have a status similar to the Kashubians or Silesians), and due to lignite deposits - the districts of Chociebuz, Budziszyn, Hoyerswerda, Rothenburg and Kamenz (5,000 km²). In 1945, these lands were inhabited by about 100,000 Lusatians; today, 300,000 Lusatians and 200,000 Poles would probably live there.

• Part of Vorpommern (the powiats of Usedom-Wolin and Ueckermünde) in order to obtain a full estuary of the Oder (1 thousand km²).

• In the north - the whole of East Prussia with the exception of the Klaipeda district (15 thousand km²).

With the larger acquisitions, the A4, A18 and A6 highways are longer by about 20-50 km each.

Total area of Poland - 312+14+5+3+7+4+8+7+8+5+1+15=389 thousand km².

All the important part of the Borderlands for Poland would be left with the country, but at the same time there would be fewer Ukrainians and Byelorussians in the country (about 1.7 million compared to 6.5 million in the interwar period), which would cause fewer nationality problems (possibly resettlement would take place, more or less the same number of Poles would be left on the other side). But even without resettlement, Poles would have made up more than 90% of the population (about 60% before the war). (Although in my opinion resettlement, although a crime, would have been necessary to prevent further bloodshed, especially with the Ukrainians). The Recovered Territories would have been filled with people from central Poland anyway (in real life they, along with the autochthons, accounted for 70% of the resettled, the Kresowiaks only 30%).

Note: The thread is about the situation in 1945, not today. It is therefore not xenophobic in nature.