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Poland Prepares Russia Reparations Claim for Soviet-Era Atrocities
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Poland is preparing a reparations claim against Russia for atrocities committed during the decades when Poland was under Soviet dominance, according to the Financial Times on February 17.
Poland’s Prime Minister Donald Tusk has tasked an institute led by Bartosz Gondek to investigate historic Russian crimes.
With Gondek saying the probe will be extensive because it covers more than four decades of the Cold War and faces major obstacles, including no access to sensitive Russian archives and documents that were falsified or destroyed in Soviet times.
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The outlet said the effort risks raising tensions with Moscow as Warsaw accuses the Russian leader, Vladimir Putin, of intensifying hybrid warfare and cyber attacks, after an incursion by Russian drones into Polish airspace last September.
Poland fell within the Soviet sphere after World War II and remained under Moscow’s political and security influence through the communist era until 1989, when Poland began dismantling one-party rule and moved toward democratic government.
The report said the institute will examine not only Soviet-era atrocities, including those linked to the Katyn massacre , but also the long-term economic and social consequences of “Soviet systemic supremacy,” including the cost to Poland of population losses and the loss of eastern territories after 1945.
The Smolensk case has remained a point of friction because Polish officials have long complained that the post-crash investigations lacked transparency, accusing Russia of withholding evidence and failing to return the wreckage and flight recorders.
Earlier, it was reported that Polish officials said Russian cyberattacks targeted Poland’s energy infrastructure and came close to causing a nationwide power outage.
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