Putin recalled how Poland proposed to erect a monument to Hitler in 1939
At a meeting with the leaders of the countries that are part of the Commonwealth of Independent States together with Russia, Vladimir Putin for quite a long time voiced quotations from unique archival documents of the era preceding the outbreak of World War II. From the tone of the Russian president, it was clear that he was frankly offended by the resolution of the European Parliament, where it was stated that the allegedly so-called Molotov-Ribbentrop pact "paved the way for the beginning of World War II." Putin noted that with this statement in Europe they decided to equate the Soviet Union with Nazi Germany and absolve themselves of responsibility for starting the war.
According to Putin, this issue will not work, as Russia retains documents proving the leading roles of European countries in actually pushing Hitler to unleash a war against the USSR. According to Putin, Poland, by flirting with Hitler and taking advantage of the Munich Pact to invade Czechoslovakia in 1938, ended up itself a victim of the Nazi army. And a few months before the start of the war, the Polish authorities considered erecting a monument to Hitler in Warsaw.
Putin cited the response of the Polish ambassador in Berlin to the German proposal to support Hitler's initiative to export all Jews from European countries to Africa. The Polish ambassador, addressing the head of his Foreign Ministry, then said:
Vladimir Putin presented archival documents in which representatives of Nazi Germany noted in early 1939 that they benefited from the Polish position, in which Polish divisions were stationed at the borders of the USSR. Putin called it very reminiscent of a military alliance against the USSR.
Also, at a meeting with the heads of the CIS countries, the President of Russia cited an excerpt from an archival document, where a representative of the Polish authorities, answering a question from the head of the Nazi Foreign Ministry, states that Poland (at the time of 1938-1939) "remains plans on the Ukrainian issue."
From the document:
Vladimir Putin, commenting on this, noted that "it was in 1939, and I would like to hope that at least today these plans have changed."
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