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Warsaw has decided to invite Russian President Vladimir Putin to commemorative events dedicated to the anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz at the beginning of next year, RIA Novosti reports. According to the press secretary of the Polish president, the liberation of the camp by Soviet troops is a historical fact that cannot be challenged. He stated that in this case the Polish side was ready to cooperate.
According to director for science at the Russian military historical society Mikhail Myagkov, no matter how much Warsaw wanted to rewrite history, it was the Red Army that liberated the country from the Nazis.
Today the Polish authorities try to present themselves in a positive way, depicting themselves as “white and fluffy”, and the USSR - as an aggressor who captured Poland not only in 1939, but also in 1945. It clearly traces the double standards that Warsaw use in evaluating the events of that historical period. Poland continues to adhere to aggressive Russophobia and accuses Moscow of allegedly contributing to the start of the Second World War.
Poles need to turn to the history of their country, Myagkov says. Poland as a state would simply disappear from the map, the Poles would not speak their language if it were not for the Red Army. It is one of the reasons for Poland to be grateful to Russia. After the war, it was the Soviet Union that did everything so that Poland would turn into a developed state. And the price for the freedom of the Polish people was six hundred thousand lives of Soviet soldiers.
Poland concluded a non-aggression pact with Germany in 1934. At the same time, Berlin and Warsaw agreed that Poland would let the German army pass to the Soviet borders, and for that, Hitler promised it the lands of Lithuania, Ukraine and Belarus. Poland participated in the division of Czechoslovakia as a result of the Munich Agreement in 1938.
Russkiy Mir reported that Warsaw plans to celebrate the anniversary of the start of the Second World War with Berlin, but without Moscow. The Polish authorities stated that they would be pleased to see current partners at memorial ceremonies. The partners in Warsaw mean the countries of the European Union and NATO, as well as the participants of the Eastern Partnership.
Russkiy Mir
