Don't underestimate anti-Russian, anti-Soviet sentiment either. Their track record regarding interaction with Poland isn't so great either. Don't forget that the Soviet Union invaded and occupied the eastern not-quite-half of Poland in '39 and then set up a one-party, police, puppet state starting in '44, after kicking back on the east bank of the Vistula and watching the Home Army uprising in Warsaw get stomped by the worst of the German military.
Poland was one of the more uppity of the Soviet satellites.
And I'm sure that Soviet requests (read: demands) for material and military assistance in its war against China would cause some resentment. Heck, in the eyes of many Poles, the USSR started the war.
The offer of self government given by the PFC and its American allies might have been very attractive to many Poles tired of Soviet domination.
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