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Russia Tells Polish President to “Re-Read Putin” After WWII Comments
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On January 28, Russia’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova criticized Polish President Karol Nawrocki for remarks suggesting Soviet complicity in the outbreak of World War II, accusing him of distorting historical facts and urging him to re-read a 2020 article by Russian leader Vladimir Putin.
According to Polish media Onet, Zakharova made the comments after Nawrocki spoke during a ceremony marking the 81st anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau.
While acknowledging that Soviet troops liberated the Nazi concentration camp, Nawrocki also drew attention to the broader role of the Soviet Union in the events leading up to the war and the Holocaust.
“Outside the camp walls, [the prisoners] were not greeted by freedom, because that was also the face of those Soviet soldiers—thanks to whom Adolf Hitler was able to start World War II in 1939, leading to the tragedy of the Holocaust,” Nawrocki said.
Zakharova responded on her Telegram channel, claiming that Nawrocki had “once again grossly distorted pre-war history” and repeated a “false thesis” regarding the USSR’s responsibility for the war.
“We recommend Mr. Nawrocki re-read President V. V. Putin’s article ‘75 Years of the Great Victory: Shared Responsibility to History and the Future’ published on June 19, 2020,” Zakharova wrote.
In the controversial article, Putin argued that Western powers and Poland shared blame for the outbreak of WWII, while defending the 1939 Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union.
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