TBF, it's not unusual for a country to reject or even give up territory when demographic concerns are severe enough. For instance, many Israelis are arguing in favor of an Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank in order to preserve Israel's Jewish character. Likewise, Charles de Gaulle argued in favor of a French withdrawal from Algeria in order to preserve France's European and Christian character. Similarly, one could support the partition of India in order to preserve India's Hindu character. Heck, some white nationalists in the US nowadays are perfectly fine seeing the US partitioned so that they could get their own white ethno-state.Sid Guttridge wrote: ↑30 Nov 2019 15:25Hi wm,
It is unusual for a country to offer more territory than is demanded and equally unusual for a country to turn territory down when offered it.
Unusual claims require an unusual amount of evidence to substantiate them.
What are your sources?
Cheers,
Sid.
Interwar Poland was only around two-thirds Polish and thus demographic issues might have very well been a real concern to their leadership. However, this doesn't explain why exactly Poland didn't take Belarus and create a nominally independent Polish puppet state out of it. This would have probably been much better for Belarusians than being put under Soviet rule was.