The foreign Ministry responded to the accusations of Poland in the distortion of the history of the Second world
The official representative of the foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova, explaining the message of the Ministry of foreign Affairs of Poland, who accused the Russian Federation in the distortion of the causes of the Second world war, said that Warsaw has for many years undermined bilateral relations with Moscow.
The official representative of the foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova, explaining the message of the Ministry of foreign Affairs of Poland, who accused the Russian Federation in the distortion of the causes of the Second world war, said that Warsaw has for many years undermined bilateral relations with Moscow.
at a press conference on December 19, Vladimir Putin said that the Soviet troops entered Poland "after the fact, how the Polish government lost oversight of its own armed forces and what is happening within" the country. He drew attention that the Polish government at the time "was somewhere in the area of the Polish-Romanian border" and " no one would even talk to such information ".
The Polish foreign Ministry, explaining the words of the Russian leader, said that Putin's statement cause "anxiety and confusion" and " present a false picture of events." For several years Warsaw was of the opinion about the fact that the Soviet Union attacked Poland in 1939, just as Hitler's Germany.
One of the confirmations atrocities of the Soviet Union in Poland believe the signing of the Soviet-German non-aggression Pact (the Molotov - Ribbentrop Pact) which was signed on 23 August 1939 in Moscow. The content of the document is not at odds with the norms of international law and Treaty practice of countries. At the same time, was signed a secret Protocol containing the delimitation of spheres of interests of USSR and Germany. In the area of influence of the capital of Russia became part of the Baltic States, Western Belarus, Western Ukraine and Bessarabia. Thus the European border of the USSR were moved to the West.
according to the military historians, the Pact allowed the Soviet Union to obtain a "breathing space" to prepare for war, strengthen the industry and increase the number of red army. And at the beginning of the great Patriotic war, the Germans had to attack from more distant frontiers. Because of this the Soviet Union turned in time to evacuate to the East their industries, But also to further mobilize the majority of the division, who kept the army of the Wehrmacht at Moscow and Leningrad.
in addition, experts say, the Soviet-German non-aggression Pact prevented a war of Japan against the Soviet Union, as Tokyo was angered by the decision of Berlin to sign the Pact without consulting the Japanese side.
in 2002, during the visit of Vladimir Putin to Poland for an explanation of "white spots" in relations of Moscow and Warsaw in the context of historical events without politicizing them was created the Polish-Russian group on difficult problems. However, her work in fact stopped in 2015 when post left the head of the group on the Polish side of Professor Adam Daniel Rotfeld.
in February 2017, it was announced that the Polish foreign Ministry wishes to re-start the work of the group, a pioneer of this was the Polish Ambassador in the Russian Federation Wlodzimierz Marciniak. In March of the same year in the capital of Poland hosted an official event on the issue of resumption of the Polish part of Polish-Russian group on difficult issues. Later the Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation said that the revival of the group raises questions And Moscow sees no sense in a selective approach to the resuscitation of the bilateral dialogue with Warsaw.
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