Mikołaj Iwanow, Sorbian Autonomy and Soviet Union.

In May 1945 Sorbian National Board appealed to Marshal Georgij Żukow — the man in charge of Soviet occupational administration in Eastern Germany. They postulated joining the Upper and Lower Lusatia to Czechoslovakia. Sorbian leaders believed that in the new country the Sorbian minority will be able to gain large autonomy and develop their own political and cultural institutions. Soviet authorities were astonished by such a proposition and eventually didn't consent to adjoin Lusatia to CSR. According to the author, the relations of Sorbian activists with Czech leaders as well as the anxiety of Soviets that Czechoslovakia may in the end sustain it's independence from Moscow were the main reasons why the Soviet government didn't agree for separation of Lusatia from Germany.