In 1919, the Curzon Line was proposed as a boundary between the Soviet Union and which country?
George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston was at the Paris Peace Conference, Curzon was appointed Foreign Secretary in October 1919. He gave his name to the British government's proposed Soviet-Polish boundary, the Curzon Line of December 1919. Although during the subsequent Russo-Polish War, Poland conquered ground in the east, after World War II, Poland was shifted westwards, leaving the border between Poland and its eastern neighbours today approximately at the Curzon Line. Curzon was largely responsible for the Peace Day ceremonies on 19 July 1919. These included the plaster Cenotaph, designed by the noted British architect Sir Edwin Lutyens, for the Allied Victory parade in London.
Curzon Line the population east of the Bug and San rivers (roughly equivalent to the Curzon Line of July 1920). The area also had a significant number of Jewish inhabitants. Poles constituted majorities in the cities of Lwów and Wilno (Jews were the second most numerous), and in Vilnius region or Wilno Voivodship. After the Soviet deportation of Poles and Jews in 1939–1941 (see Polish minority in Soviet Union), The Holocaust and the ethnic cleansing of the Polish population of Volhynia and East Galicia by Ukrainian Nationalists, the Polish population in the territories had decreased considerably. The cities of Wilno, Lwów, Grodno