The Russian Embassy in Germany recalled that about 600 thousand Soviet soldiers died during the liberation of Poland from the Nazis. This is stated on Facebook by the diplomatic mission. Diplomats emphasized that Warsaw should be grateful to them for the very fact of the existence of statehood.

“In this connection, I would like to recall that for the liberation of Poland from Nazism, our country paid with the lives of 600 thousand soldiers of the Red Army. It is thanks to them that Poland today exists as a state, ”the embassy said on Facebook.

So diplomats commented on the words of the head of the ruling Polish party, Law and Justice, Yaroslav Kaczynski that Russia, like Germany, should pay compensation for the “damage” allegedly caused during World War II.

“Russia must also pay. But I do not think that our generation will catch a moment when Moscow recognizes its responsibility. One thing I can say for sure: our requirements do not have an expiration date, ”he said in an interview with Bild on January 25.

According to Kaczynski, on September 17, 1939, "Stalin's Soviet Union attacked Poland." Note that then the Red Army during the liberation campaign occupied the western parts of Ukraine and Belarus, pushing the border with Germany to the west by several hundred kilometers.

The Russian ambassador recalled that January 27 is the day of the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz prisoners by Soviet soldiers, on which everyone remembers the tragedy of the Holocaust and the exploit of the Red Army.

“But the Polish leadership has its own story,” diplomats said.

Warsaw is trying to rewrite history to imagine World War II as a war “against two dictatorships,” said Dmitry Solonnikov, director of the Institute for Contemporary State Development.

“An attempt to raise the question in such a way that the Second World War is a struggle of the“ liberal democratic forces ”against the“ two dictatorships ”- German and Soviet. Actually, the “winners” are Western liberal democracies, and the “culprits” of this catastrophe are the German and Soviet dictatorships, ”he told RT.

As noted by Solonnikov, it is beneficial for Poland to act as a victim, to which everyone should pay compensation.

“It’s convenient for them: the position of the“ eternal sacrifice, ”which everyone offends and which everyone around must. From these positions, Poland acts both in relation to other European countries and in relation to Russia, ”the expert emphasized.

“A decision was made on a disinformation campaign”

Earlier, on January 23, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said that Poland had decided to conduct a disinformation campaign against Russia.

“According to our data ... recently, at an appropriate level in Poland, it was decided to launch a large-scale disinformation campaign against our country on directly historical topics related to the Second World War and in our case the Great Patriotic War,” she said during a briefing.

On January 21, she commented on an article by Polish Prime Minister Matuesz Moravecki on World War II. In it, the politician, in particular, declared that an alliance treaty was allegedly concluded between the USSR and Nazi Germany, and the years of the “Soviet occupation” cost Poland “millions of lives”.

“This is another criminal attempt to rewrite the history of World War II. This time, Warsaw was not limited to the desire to equate the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany, or by repeating her favorite thesis about their “union”, she wrote on Facebook.

“This is not an article, this is real suicide: the four pages by which the Polish Prime Minister killed a man in himself,” stated Zakharova.

It is worth noting that January 17 marked the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Poland from Nazi occupation. However, there were no government events in Warsaw in this regard, only two organized by private individuals.

Moreover, it was thanks to the USSR that Poland received those territories that it historically claimed, and the country's economy was restored due to Soviet assistance, Vladimir Shapovalov, deputy director of the Institute of History and Politics of the Moscow State Pedagogical University, recalled.

“The USSR restored Polish statehood, destroyed by fascist Germany, expanded the borders of Poland significantly, returning to it the historical territories that had been lost before that for 1000 years. Moreover, the Polish question was a key issue in negotiations with the Western allies, and it was the USSR that insisted that Poland exist within modern western borders, ”he stressed in an interview with RT.

According to Shapovalov, the attempts undertaken by Warsaw to rewrite history "do not lend themselves to any common sense."

“The Soviet Union did not receive help from anyone, and nevertheless sought opportunities to help the Polish people. All this cannot be estimated in billions or trillions, because all these benefits, from the life and freedom of citizens to the restored economy, are something that the current generation of Poles can use thanks to the USSR. This kind of statement does not just distort history, but is a black ingratitude towards the liberating people, ”the historian concluded.

Archive Center

It is worth noting that Russia intends to fight attempts to distort the history of World War II. In particular, a special center will be created where archival documents, photos and videos related to the war will be published. Access to it will be provided not only for Russians, but also for the whole world.

The creation of such a center was announced by Russian President Vladimir Putin. He emphasized that Moscow would not allow forgetting the truth about this period of history.

“We don’t have to prove anything to anyone and we have to do something else. We must do everything so that this truth is not forgotten. We must contrast this with objective information, which we have enough, ”he said in the program“ Moscow. Kremlin. Putin "on the TV channel" Russia 1 "on January 19.

According to the head of state, the center will be "the largest and most complete complex."