Posted on Jan 22, 2020
Poland says Russia trying to ‘divert attention for dark wartime past’ with Holocaust accusations
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Vladimir Putin has been accused of rewriting history to turn killers who carried out bloody massacres into victims in an ongoing and bitter dispute which erupted after he claimed that Poland was complicit with Hitler’s Germany in the lead-up to the Second World War.
The Kremlin, claims Arkady Rzegocki, Poland’s ambassador to the UK, is seeking to deflect guilt and cover-up the legacy of the Nazi-Soviet pact – the Molotov-Ribbentrop treaty – which sought to secretly carve-up countries in eastern Europe between the two totalitarian powers.
Writing in The Independent, Mr Rzegocki says: “President Vladimir Putin is harking back to the USSR’s false wartime narrative and unfairly turning perpetrators into victims.’’
The Kremlin, claims Arkady Rzegocki, Poland’s ambassador to the UK, is seeking to deflect guilt and cover-up the legacy of the Nazi-Soviet pact – the Molotov-Ribbentrop treaty – which sought to secretly carve-up countries in eastern Europe between the two totalitarian powers.
Writing in The Independent, Mr Rzegocki says: “President Vladimir Putin is harking back to the USSR’s false wartime narrative and unfairly turning perpetrators into victims.’’
Poland says Russia trying to ‘divert attention for dark wartime past’ with Holocaust accusations
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It was the Nazi-Soviet Pact.
Or if you prefer, the Molotov-Ribbentrop treaty.
I don't see where confusion would come in.
But if you would like to explore who did what, all one needs do is examine where the borders of Poland were, and where they are now. The Germans were forced to return portions of Poland they annexed, and indeed significant portions of Pomerania, East Prussia, and Selesia after the war. The Soviets kept the land they took (as well as a chunk of East Prussia Russia still owns).
Or if you prefer, the Molotov-Ribbentrop treaty.
I don't see where confusion would come in.
But if you would like to explore who did what, all one needs do is examine where the borders of Poland were, and where they are now. The Germans were forced to return portions of Poland they annexed, and indeed significant portions of Pomerania, East Prussia, and Selesia after the war. The Soviets kept the land they took (as well as a chunk of East Prussia Russia still owns).
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