Warsaw accused Russia of falsifying history
Last week, the Russian military department declassified unique archival documents on the liberation of Poland from Nazism. On the website of the Ministry of Defense, you can read telegrams, memoranda, reports and combat reports testifying, among other things, about the benevolent attitude of the Poles towards the Soviet soldiers.
These documents refute the point of view adopted in Poland, according to which the Red Army brought to the Poles not a liberation, but a new enslavement. It is in this that the Institute of National Remembrance found falsification of history, RIA News.
In Warsaw, they claim that the publication of the Ministry of Defense is intended to prove that the Poles considered the soldiers of the Red Army to be exclusively liberators. The IPN calls this thesis biased, the documents - specially selected and taken out of context, and the comments - biased. According to the authors of the statement, the “false picture” of the liberation of Poland is already given in the introduction to the publication.
This is a phrase on the website of the Ministry of Defense:
The gratitude of the Red Army and the appeals to help the Soviet troops in the fight against Nazism, which are often found in documents published by the Ministry of Defense, IPN calls the population tormented by the German occupation as “episodic or local reactions”. As stated in the statement, for the overwhelming majority of Poles, the Red Army brought not liberation, but "a new, although, no doubt, enslavement not comparable with the German occupation."
Established in 1998, the Polish National Memory Institute studies the activities of the state security organs of Poland, the USSR and the Third Reich to investigate crimes against the Poles in the post-war period - up to the 1990 year. The institute also controls issues of lustration and the investigation of crimes against humanity and war crimes.
Poland was occupied by German troops from September 1939-th to February 1945. During this time, about six million Poles died (about 20 percent of the total population).
The Ministry of Defense published archival documents the day after Polish President Andrzej Duda approved a new version of the law on decommunization, according to which Soviet monuments, including military memorials, should be dismantled throughout the country. The law will affect approximately 230 monuments of the Red Army. During the Vistula-Oder operation to liberate Poland, more than 40 thousands of Soviet soldiers were killed.
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