Poland is aware that among the liberators of Auschwitz were Russians, Ukrainians, and Authorized other nationalities, said the Ambassador of Poland in the Russian Federation Katarzyna Pelczynska-Nalecz, explaining the phrase of the head of the foreign Ministry of the Republic of Grzegorz Shetina.
" Realize that in the ranks of the First Ukrainian front of the red army were Both Russians and Ukrainians, Belarusians, Jews, and Authorized other Nations, - the diplomat said.- The memory of them is undeniable, and no one tries no to interrupt or to dishonor ". On Wednesday, foreign Minister of Poland Grzegorz Schetyna on Polish radio said that the concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau was liberated most importantly Ukrainians. In response to this, the MPs of the state Duma expressed harsh criticism of the Polish Minister. The Russian foreign Ministry later said the message of the head of the Polish foreign Ministry and said that his words were illiterate and are a mockery of history. The Minister of foreign Affairs of Russia S. Lavrov Century called blasphemous and cynical statements by the head of the Polish foreign Ministry. As said in this regard, the head of the Duma of the Department on international Affairs Alexei Pushkov, the Minister of foreign Affairs of Poland "sick with acute Russophobia" and is ready to forgive the death of hundreds of thousands of poles at the hands of Ukrainian nationalists.


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