Russia demanded reparations for the Second World War. Who demanded? Poland of course. “Russia must also pay ... Our demands do not have a statute of limitations,” said the shadow ruler of that country, Yaroslav Kachinsky, in an interview with German Bild. Moscow owes Warsaw just like Berlin, the leader of the Law and Justice party believes. True, the amount has not yet been announced. She considers a special commission. But the Germans ’“ debt "is known - $ 850 billion. Almost a trillion.
In Russia, having learned about the next Polish presentation, they were outraged. But the most cold-blooded remembered that the pre-war Lviv belonged to Poland, and offered to pick it up as compensation. This creative solution fits into the concept of dividing Ukraine between its neighbors, which some politicians and experts are discussing, and it looks very witty. However, Russia in this case is not up to wit. The memory of the war is sacred.
Six hundred thousand of our soldiers died for the liberation of Poland from Nazism. And if this terrible figure was widely known, then the public was able to estimate the amount of material costs for a military operation, for the support of the Polish and civilian troops and the subsequent restoration of the country only recently, since the publication of documents from the Central Archive of the Ministry of Defense in the framework of the project “Memory Against Oblivion” ".
To knock out the Nazis from Poland, our army needed thousands of pieces of armored vehicles, artillery pieces, cars, airplanes. Hundreds of thousands of sets of uniforms and warm clothes also shipped the Soviet rear pilots. They supplied fodder, food, and cotton. Restored by the Germans destroyed railway communication, bridges. Infectious patients were treated. All this has a specific price - the monetary value reflected in the consolidated documents of the 1950s.
Scrupulous calculations were then made for a reason. During the Potsdam Conference of 1945, an agreement was signed under which Poland received reparations from a share of the Soviet Union, which Moscow, in turn, claimed from the eastern occupation zone of Germany, defined jointly with the Allies. Having received its own, Warsaw in 1953 entered into an agreement with Moscow to refuse further payments. That is, the material issue has long been settled, and Kaczynski’s claims sound like nonsense.
So why is the noble pan not afraid to look inadequate? The answer is all in the same interview with the Germans. It begins with Putin and ends with him. Anyone who hurts, he says that. It seems that in Warsaw they realized that they had played in the history of the Holocaust, and are trying to replay the party, raising rates. Indeed, at a recent forum in Jerusalem representing Russia, Putin was honored as a liberator with a brilliant absence of Polish (and Ukrainian) politicians.
Kaczynski has a deeper resentment. “Let's not forget: it was Putin who made November 4 the holiday of the“ new Russia ”in 2005 - on that day in 1612 the Poles were driven back during the battle for the Moscow Kremlin,” Kaczynski reproached historical Russia. Let's not be surprised - the nationalists of all countries are the same.
Exaltation of national feelings inevitably leads to such crazy arguments: the Poles were thrown back for the Moscow Kremlin. Wow! Well, sorry.
Claims are not a separate case, but part of a planned information war.
“According to our data,” explained the representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, “a decision was recently made at the appropriate level in Poland to launch a large-scale disinformation campaign against our country on directly historical topics relating to the Second World War.” It is logical, because history is an important component of any national building.
Moreover, the Kaczynski party is ultranationalists, declaring their claims not only against Germany and Russia, but even against the European Union, which has imprudently accepted Poland into its ranks. In its aplomb, Warsaw successfully competes with Kiev. And even competes with him for the championship in the framework of the Three Seas Initiative, which implies a special way for the development of Eastern European countries from sea to sea. The former glory of the Commonwealth does not give rest? As you can see, the conservative Catholics from Law and Justice are completely insane in their geopolitical aspirations.
Such ambitions - the struggle against all - almost always end in tears. Those who think of themselves as new arbiters of the fate of entire countries have every chance of breaking their teeth about the calm confidence of Russia itself. Or the coalition of Russia and Europe. Wasn’t that the same indefatigable passion of the Polish papacy for expansion was the root cause of the notorious three sections of Poland in the 18th century? That way and the fourth is not far. And then they will again complain that they are being offended, and beg for a pretty penny ...
However, Russia is still kind. And before you get angry in earnest, you never get tired of exhorting the lost with a word. Such measures include the proposal of RT chief editor Margarita Simonyan to shame the presumptuous Poles. "I offer these bastards, these bad people ... I just ask people to send them messages on their social networks:" Hello, pan-and-so, my grandfather died near Warsaw, freeing you, your ancestors. " With the hashtag #You're not ashamed, ”she explained.
Worth trying. Let them then not say that they were not warned.
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