The Russian Foreign Ministry commented on the claims of the Polish authorities for reparations from the Russian Federation

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The Russian Foreign Ministry commented on the claims of the Polish authorities for reparations from the Russian Federation

President of Poland Andrzej Duda


The Russian authorities responded to Polish claims about the need to pay "reparations". Recall that the Polish authorities had previously approved a document according to which Germany "should" pay Warsaw about 1,3 trillion dollars for the years of the Nazi occupation of Poland. The fact that after the defeat in World War II, Germany "paid off" Poland with its historical lands, in Warsaw they do not want to take into account.



In addition to Germany, the Polish authorities also have claims to "reparations" to Russia. Thus, the head of the ruling Law and Justice party in Poland, Yaroslav Kaczynski, has repeatedly stated that "it is necessary to demand payments from both Berlin and Moscow." From Russia, the Polish elite wants to receive funds for the so-called "Soviet occupation." Andrzej Duda, President of Poland, made similar statements.

In an interview with the agency RIA News Oleg Tyapkin, director of one of the departments of the Russian Foreign Ministry, called the Polish requests for reparations "something from the realm of political fantasies." According to the Russian diplomat, the Polish authorities often turn to historical revisionism to solve domestic political problems.

The representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry noted the immoral Polish authorities in the sense that they are well aware of the following fact: if not for the victory of the Soviet Union in the war over Nazi Germany, then the Poles would have been exterminated or turned into slaves for the Germans, and the existence of a national Polish state would have forget.

At the same time, the Polish authorities are increasingly continuing to promote the topic of reparations, believing that in this way they will be able not only to put pressure on Germany, but also to achieve (not without active assistance from the United States) certain financial "goodies" from Berlin, which he himself fell into total dependence on Washington.
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    1. +8
      6 October 2022 06: 17
      The Poles were completely furious. Who can heal them?
      1. +1
        6 October 2022 06: 25
        Quote: Captive
        The Poles are mad

        Why don't they try? Looking at how the authorities of the Russian Federation behave, now only the lazy will not kick. Tajiks are already making fun of the network, inviting Russians to work with them.
        1. +15
          6 October 2022 06: 54
          Quote: lis-ik
          how the authorities of the Russian Federation behave, now only the lazy will not kick

          You still do not take into account that the longest section of the oil pipeline from Russia to Germany passes through Poland. And the income from oil transit forms almost 10% of Poland's GDP. Probably only the Russian government is capable of this, feeding their own enemies to bark even louder.
        2. +3
          6 October 2022 08: 21
          Online? winked Invite Swiss people to work online. Delov something? The poor fellows simply found a way out for their complexes and frolic. r.s. By the way, I'm far from an Aryan, but I don't have a complex. bully
          1. +1
            6 October 2022 09: 45
            Yes, there are a lot of jokes on the net. Someone is streaming a burning gas burner, someone is sculpting jokes about Biden. Once, in the comments to the song Sabaton, I decided to unsubscribe, saying that I will storm Stockholm under this one. But this is all bullshit. Judging by this about something real is not serious, as for me.
        3. +2
          6 October 2022 08: 33
          Why don't they try? Looking at how the authorities of the Russian Federation behave, now only the lazy will not kick. Tajiks are already making fun of the network, inviting Russians to work with them.
          Well, in place specifically of the Tajiks, whom we helped end the civil war and the subject of which is not closed, I would not be kidding much.
      2. +9
        6 October 2022 06: 42
        Quote: Captive
        The Poles were completely furious. Who can heal them?

        The Poles owe us like land to a collective farm, let their orderlies from Germany treat ...
        1. +2
          6 October 2022 07: 19
          Quote: 41 REGION
          Quote: Captive
          The Poles were completely furious. Who can heal them?

          , let their orderlies from Germany treat ...
          Unfortunately, the orderlies were in the GDR, and in the FRG only pIdagogi remained, and so we can give them Lvov.
          1. +2
            6 October 2022 07: 45
            Poland is being prepared for war with Russia! The next will be a victim
          2. 0
            6 October 2022 07: 49
            "We can give them Lviv"
            Russians cannot give away what does not belong to them.
            1. +4
              6 October 2022 08: 36
              Quote: Hermit
              Russians cannot give away what does not belong to them.

              So the Poles themselves will take it, according to reparations "for the Soviet occupation" from the former republic of the USSR, to pay off the "debt" to the psheks ( laughing ), even without entering the sun - he untied their hands.
              1. 0
                6 October 2022 16: 40
                Only Garik K can come up with such a multi-move pawn move.
        2. +2
          6 October 2022 07: 49
          Those nurses are gone. Only the tolerant remained.
          1. +2
            6 October 2022 09: 47
            There will be nurses there when needed. Before the Franco-Prussian, they say, the Germans were also considered musicians, poets, philosophers ... anyone, but not warriors. The main fighters were French. And here - on you! The most advanced military machine in Europe. They know how to surprise.
            1. 0
              6 October 2022 10: 13
              winked This is good. The main thing is that they would not try to surprise us.
              1. +1
                6 October 2022 11: 23
                If it's nice to be surprised, then please. I would be very surprised if they took the Americans by the scruff of the neck and threw them out of Germany, saying goodbye that they were waiting for the return of their gold from Fort Knox, and until then they would keep all American military equipment, including nuclear weapons, at home.
        3. 0
          6 October 2022 07: 59
          Exactly. We do not demand - they decided. We must now at least think about how much they owe us for saving the entire nation!
        4. 0
          6 October 2022 12: 41
          Quote: 41 REGION
          Quote: Captive
          The Poles were completely furious. Who can heal them?

          The Poles owe us like land to a collective farm, let their orderlies from Germany treat ...

          As reparations to Poland, the Russian Federation should take Przemysl, Bialystok, the western part of East Prussia, Gdansk and Pomerania.
      3. +2
        6 October 2022 07: 37
        Another section most likely
      4. 0
        6 October 2022 07: 38
        from the eternally preoccupied and whiners, you can shake off reparations, they don’t make claims against the strong, the strong can charge turnips, and the generalisimus can only threaten from the rostrum, but no one believes this anymore, even the Poles
      5. +1
        6 October 2022 08: 00
        Quote: Captive
        Who can heal them?

        Treat? wassat they don't get sick, it's their normal state. It's called the dominance instinct. Easily transforms into the instinct of self-preservation in the presence of a baton.
    2. +3
      6 October 2022 06: 18
      The hyena went berserk and decided to bite all the neighbors. Perhaps he will go out with someone? But they can send.
      1. +3
        6 October 2022 07: 21
        Do not send, but shoot. Those who are angry must be shot.
    3. +6
      6 October 2022 06: 18
      Well, let them send bailiffs to Germany and Russia for reparations .. laughing
      1. +3
        6 October 2022 09: 59
        The Poles want reparations to be paid from both sides at once. Well... It really can be repeated.
    4. +11
      6 October 2022 06: 19
      Tyapkin called the Polish claims for reparations "something from the realm of political fantasies"
      Maybe fantasies, but the Polish authorities with dull persistence are trying to promote this unpromising idea. I think that in this situation it is necessary to put forward counterclaims both for the territories "donated" after WW2 and for those built in Poland during the USSR period (in their opinion, "occupation"). So let him choke on his anger after that.
      The representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry noted the immoral Polish authorities
      Found someone to remind about morality. The thoroughly Russophobic Polish government has long forgotten this word and what it means. It is useless to talk with the Poles, and even more so to call them to reason. Those who beg the United States for the deployment of nuclear weapons on their territory, reorganize and strengthen their army are clearly preparing not for "heart-to-heart talk", but for war.
    5. +6
      6 October 2022 06: 20
      The Polish leadership skillfully earns the honorary title "Target number three for Russian strategic nuclear weapons"! And for a tactical one, it’s number one!
    6. +7
      6 October 2022 06: 21
      ***
      a complex mass and individual psychopathological phenomenon inherent in Poles and characterizing Poland's foreign policy.
      (Material from the free Russian encyclopedia Tradition)
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      - The first section of the Commonwealth in 1772,
      - The second section of the Commonwealth in 1793,
      - The third section of the Commonwealth in 1795;
      - Congress of Vienna in 1815, sometimes referred to as the fourth partition of Poland;
      - The non-aggression pact between Germany and the Soviet Union in 1939 is called either the fourth or the fifth partition of Poland ...
      (Material from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
      ***
    7. +4
      6 October 2022 06: 21
      The Psheks imagined themselves to be the beloved wife of the United States. Ukraine also decided that nothing would happen to it. A small correction: Russia is not afraid of America, and beats his beloved wife both in the tail and in the mane. They would think, but there is nothing
    8. +2
      6 October 2022 06: 28
      Statement? "Farted into a puddle" - circles went all over the Washington and the European Union swamp ... The new Baltic Pipe gas pipeline has been working for too long ...
    9. +1
      6 October 2022 06: 30
      Let them rejoice that after the Second World War they remained on the map with their own language. I won’t mention any help and construction of railways in Poland by the Union, otherwise it’s even unclear whether the psheks owe us.
      1. +1
        6 October 2022 07: 20
        Quote: Turtle
        Let them rejoice that after the Second World War they remained on the map with their own language.

        Yes, they have a "hissing" tongue. Here the viper is spinning, on whom to throw its poison.
    10. +1
      6 October 2022 06: 46
      Reparations - compensation by the defeated state, through whose fault the war arose, for the losses incurred by the victorious state.
      Poland country winner? She does not even have the right to demand from Germany. Lands received only thanks to our traditional goodwill. And Lithuania has acquired well - Vilna, Kovno. Well, the Russian Federation got a piece of the pie in the outskirts, which they now want to take away. It's time for the Psheks to explain the meaning of reparations and the victorious country to take back what is required by international law.
      1. 0
        6 October 2022 11: 01
        Poland is a winner country?

        In fact, the troops of the 1st Army of the Polish Army participated in the storming of Berlin.
        1. 0
          6 October 2022 11: 17
          Something I didn’t see Poland signing the act of capitulation of Germany ... Although, of course, there shouldn’t have been “paddling pools” there either! Again Russian (Stalinist) generosity!
          1. 0
            6 October 2022 13: 16
            The act was signed only by representatives of the "Big Four", but by that time 54 states were part of the anti-Hitler coalition. The degree of their participation was different, of course.
            As of January 1942, the anti-Hitler coalition consisted of 26 states: the Big Four (Great Britain, the USSR, the USA, China), the British dominions (Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa) and the dependent state of India, the countries of Central and Latin America, the Caribbean, and also governments in exile of occupied European countries. The number of coalition members increased during the war.
        2. 0
          6 October 2022 16: 21
          All the merits that, with the full support and support of the Union, participated in the storming of Berlin. Throughout the war, this Polish Army was assembled, at the end of the war they were barely persuaded to go to war. And the Craiova Army in general "partisan" in the rear of the Soviet troops.
          1. +1
            6 October 2022 18: 26
            The Poles fought the Germans since 1939, first on their own, then as part of or with the support of allies in the anti-Hitler coalition - as part of the French troops in Norway, Syria and France in 1940, as part of the British - in North Africa in 1941, since 1940 they were part as separate divisions in the British army in England itself, Polish troops fought the Germans in 1943 in Italy, participated in the landings in Normandy, battles with the Germans in France, Belgium and the Netherlands, in Germany. Polish sailors fought together with the allies also at sea since 1939, in addition to the Polish ships and submarines that broke into England through German barriers, the Poles rented several large destroyers, cruisers and submarines from the British, they participated in the defense of Norway in 1940, the pursuit Bismarck, landings in Europe, including the Mediterranean Sea. Polish sailors also took part in the protection of the Arctic convoys of the allies, who delivered weapons and equipment to the USSR free of charge under lend-lease.
            Polish pilots participated in the defense of France, the war for Britain, and battles in North Africa. The Poles also participated in the bombing of Germany.
            Since 1944, Polish divisions actively and proactively fought as part of the Soviet troops, participated in the liberation of Warsaw, the storming of Berlin, and the liberation of Czechoslovakia.
            Yes, they also defeated Germany, this question is beyond doubt.
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    12. +3
      6 October 2022 06: 51
      The Russian Foreign Ministry commented on the claims of the Polish authorities for reparations from the Russian Federation

      What is there to comment on? They say that Alexander Ivanovich Lebed was showing something with this gesture, talking about fishing:

      In our particular case, this means: "If you take the hand for the entire amount of reparations, then Poland will receive half!"
      Yes
    13. +4
      6 October 2022 06: 54
      if not for the victory of the Soviet Union in the war over Nazi Germany, then the Poles would have been exterminated or turned into slaves for the Germans

      Whom whom, but the Poles did not need to be freed from Hitler.
      How many times I write, so many times I get a bunch of minuses.
      1. -2
        6 October 2022 06: 57
        Quote: tihonmarine
        Whom whom, but the Poles did not need to be freed from Hitler.
        How many times I write, so many times I get a bunch of minuses.

        you get it right ... justify your idea, how would it actually look like?
        1. 0
          6 October 2022 09: 06
          Quote: Aerodrome
          you get it right ... justify your idea, how would it actually look like?

          Yes, I have already justified more than a dozen times. But for some reason everyone wants to "liberate Europe", but not to storm, capture and occupy.
    14. +5
      6 October 2022 06: 57
      Germany hinted to Poland about the land. Poland still sent the document to international authorities.
      It remains for us to hint about 2/3 of East Prussia, which we gave them and let them do what they want.
      With a strong desire, they can always lose 1/3 of their territory. Again, the Germans and Russians will divide (return) what is due to them if the psheks do not need it.
      In fact, there are sane patriots of the country in Poland. But their even slightest attempts at the household level to declare the primogeniture of the duties of the state taking care of ordinary citizens leads to their forced dismissals from work. So people sit with a fig behind their backs. And Pans-psheks think that the finest hour has come.
      I met with some representatives of such psheks. Their ambition is capitalized. And how they savor their superiority anywhere. You look at them and you are amazed, because they don’t understand that they are shitting into their own well. And everyone is eager to go to the UK.
      1. 0
        6 October 2022 16: 26
        As the government of Poland in exile, it has become a tradition for them))
    15. 0
      6 October 2022 07: 00
      Quote: Vita VKO
      Quote: lis-ik
      how the authorities of the Russian Federation behave, now only the lazy will not kick

      You still do not take into account that the longest section of the oil pipeline from Russia to Germany passes through Poland. And the income from oil transit forms almost 10% of Poland's GDP. Probably only the Russian government is capable of this, feeding their own enemies to bark even louder.

      ignorant - this pipe has not been working for a long time
    16. 0
      6 October 2022 07: 11
      Quote: Captive
      The Poles were completely furious. Who can heal them?

      One nuclear bomb
      1. 0
        6 October 2022 07: 23
        Quote: Tagan
        One nuclear bomb

        Yes, they will wait from a simple tail. Especially if it ends up in a town through which "aid" goes to Ukraine.
    17. -1
      6 October 2022 07: 26
      Poland itself must pay us reparations for the deaths of thousands of captured Red Army soldiers after the march on Warsaw and for the deaths of 600 of our soldiers during the liberation of Poland.

      She also has to pay the Germans for part of Prussia and Silesia, from where the German population was expelled ...

      Still pay an indemnity to the Czech Republic for the occupation of the Teshin region ...

      Also for the occupation of Vilna in Lithuania ...
      1. +1
        6 October 2022 16: 29
        In response, black gratitude - the destruction of monuments. Why do our people allow them this vandalism?
    18. 0
      6 October 2022 07: 44
      if not for the victory of the Soviet Union in the war over Nazi Germany, then the Poles would have been exterminated or turned into slaves for the Germans, and the existence of a national Polish state would have to be forgotten

      This is correct, only this should not be voiced in an interview, but in an official note with a summons from the Polish ambassador to the Foreign Ministry.
    19. 0
      6 October 2022 07: 49
      it's time to count and bill the psheks for the liberation of Poland from the Nazis
    20. 0
      6 October 2022 07: 50
      Flew. All against all. Such situations do not end well. Apparently, the time has come for 3-5 masters of the world to shout at the mongrels until they gnaw and tear their pants to the owners.
    21. +2
      6 October 2022 07: 50
      A clear example for those who want to be human friends with others, help, etc. There are only the interests of Russia and its citizens, and we must start from this.
      How many hundreds of thousands of Soviet soldiers were laid to free such ungrateful creatures from the Nazis?! Poland, Slovakia, etc. And then, immediately after the war, they helped the "friendly peoples" with grain and bread, when we ourselves were hungry. And why?
      So that they would accuse us of "occupation" today? To demand "reparations"? To be the first to run to serve the United States and send weapons (Soviet) to kill Russians (Russians, Chechens, Buryats, etc.)?
      And indeed, it was necessary not to talk about the friendship of peoples or social friendship, but to act like the British, French, Belgians did with their colonies. Turn Nazi henchmen and collaborators (Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia) into real colonies from which resources would be pumped out according to the principle of Western Europeans, so that "brother Slavs" would plow for 30 years like slaves on plantations for the benefit of Soviet citizens!
      Citizens of the USSR would live much richer, and Poles, Czechs, Slovaks, etc. would watch and salivate, as do the former residents of the former French and British colonies who dream of living in the former metropolis.
    22. 0
      6 October 2022 07: 56
      To begin with, let Bialystok be returned to Belarus, given to them by Stalin as a gesture of goodwill and a pledge of good neighborliness. There has been no talk of good neighborliness since the last century, the cries of decommunization and de-Stalinization have not stopped since about the same time. Well, if you want de-Stalinization - please, but with "full exposure" (Bulgakov, "The Master and Margarita").
      And besides Bialystok, please, return the Stalinist gifts to Germany. Danzig, Stettin, Breslau, Posen, well, a bunch of towns and smaller villages. For this, perhaps, Germany could fork out. If he deems it necessary.
    23. 0
      6 October 2022 07: 57
      Attach the historical Koenigsberg lands to the Kaliningrad region! Return to Germany the lands annexed to Poland!
      In general, this motto should be made global.
    24. 0
      6 October 2022 08: 08
      Well, since such a thing, then the psheks should answer us for the death of Susanin and the occupation of 1612 ... Why are we silent ... since such a "drink" has gone .... the French also owe us for 1812 ...., and To annex Mongolia to the Russian Federation for free, they don’t have enough resources to pay off ...
    25. 0
      6 October 2022 08: 40
      for 1612 we can roll them out? The Kremlin was captured, a bunch of cities were burned ...% to .... (you will be waist-deep) dripped.
      Take the lands! Because we don't need papers. Suwalki fit
    26. +1
      6 October 2022 09: 25
      Wet fantasies of the hyena of Europe will bring it to the same zugunder ....
    27. 0
      6 October 2022 09: 39
      In an interview with RIA Novosti, the director of one of the departments of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Oleg Tyapkin, called the Polish requests for reparations "something from the realm of political fantasies." According to the Russian diplomat, the Polish authorities often turn to historical revisionism to solve domestic political problems.

      Poland's right to reparations from Germany is fixed in the most official results of the Second World War in Europe - the decisions of the Potsdam Conference in 1945. But not quite the way Poland wants.

      III. REPAIRS FROM GERMANY
      1. Reparative claims of the USSR will be satisfied by exemptions from the German zone occupied by the USSR, and from the corresponding German investments abroad.
      2. The USSR will satisfy the reparations claims of Poland from its share of the reparations ...

      http://www.hist.msu.ru/ER/Etext/War_Conf/berlin_main.htm
      The fact that after the defeat in World War II, Germany “paid off” Poland with its historical lands

      It is correct that the author put in quotation marks. The change of borders has nothing to do with the payment of reparations. The change of borders was agreed at the Tehran conference in 1943 as compensation for the lands transferred to the republics of the USSR-BSSR and the Ukrainian SSR. There is a well-known story about Churchill's three matches, when he measured the change in the eastern border of Poland with a match on the map and shifted the western border of Poland by the same distance.
    28. 0
      6 October 2022 09: 43
      I wonder how the Poles want to get their reparations? Iskanders and daggers?
    29. 0
      6 October 2022 10: 13
      Win the war and get reparations. If they don't win, they won't. What are the Russians fighting for?
    30. 0
      6 October 2022 10: 15
      I should have added ... Burned in the ovens of Auschwitz and other concentration camps
    31. 0
      6 October 2022 10: 20
      Well well. The Poles apparently forgot that before the conclusion of the Molotov-Ribentrop Pact, they actively supported Germany (Hitler was already Chancellor) and incited the USSR.
    32. 0
      6 October 2022 10: 24
      You should not pay attention to beggars until they take out a knife to convince requests. bully So to say, God will give, go, orphan, work! am It is surprising that they are still paying attention, you see the mattresses are inciting. Yes
    33. +1
      6 October 2022 10: 25
      I propose that Germany put forward a proposal for the next partition of Poland, for the stabilization, improvement and development of relations between the Russian, Polish and German peoples.
    34. +2
      6 October 2022 11: 25
      Quote: Hermit
      "We can give them Lviv"
      Russians cannot give away what does not belong to them.

      How. Well well. Then a test for you young lady. Whose Crimea? wassat
    35. 0
      6 October 2022 11: 27
      The question is that even occupied Germany, represented by a petty political figure - a certain Scholz, spoke about a reciprocal revision of certain borders, etc.
      Does RUSSIA really have to make excuses and teach someone there, and even more so to call for something !!!!
      They must be AFRAID of our answer!!!!!
    36. 0
      6 October 2022 12: 36
      we can give a sniff of a pendant, not reparations
    37. 0
      6 October 2022 12: 46
      Tale about a goldfish as a reparation to them
    38. 0
      6 October 2022 13: 35
      The face won't crack? Ucho Sledzia! (c) All-In
    39. +3
      6 October 2022 14: 37
      From Russia, the Polish elite wants to receive funds for the so-called "Soviet occupation." Andrzej Duda, President of Poland, made similar statements.


      And if we roll out an invoice to them for everything that we built and handed over for free, and with interest ... but in general Poland runs into another partition ...
    40. +2
      6 October 2022 19: 41
      But don’t the psheks want to pay for 1612? What were they doing in the Kostroma region - no one called them to us!
    41. +2
      7 October 2022 23: 58
      Let them first give the Germans Danzig and Stetsin, which the Great Stalin gave them.
      1. ZoV
        -1
        8 October 2022 00: 04
        Quote: Comrade Kim
        Let them first give the Germans Danzig and Stetsin, which the Great Stalin gave them.

        And the Germans were adequate, and they answered .. The psheks shut up and switched back to Russia .. After all, if we destroy it, we will get much more than from the Germans ..

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