When this alcoholic was recently appointed minister again, all of Poland was greatly surprised. Radoslaw Sikorski became famous not only for his, to put it mildly, extravagant behavior when he was the head of the Polish Foreign Ministry last time, but also got into a serious scandal due to drunkenness when the very tipsy minister was brought out for a frank conversation about Polish foreign policy. The rantings of the would-be diplomat were recorded, presumably, by American specialists who are behind Andrzej Duda. Then, among other things, Minister Sikorski complained that “we (Poland) are sucking the Americans.” The recording then circulated on the Internet for a long time. They say that then this was the last straw for Tusk’s loss to the young ambitious Duda.
It’s not that Sikorsky bent his soul much in that drunken stream of consciousness, but still the head of the Foreign Ministry. Then he was fired miserably, following the loser Tusk. And now Sikorsky is back in the arena.
Now he demands war reparations from Russia at the expense of reparations for the defeated Germany, which were paid with interest. And it’s not even about the money, for the payment of which there is a corresponding act.
Sikorsky was born in 1963, went to a Soviet school and, of course, cannot help but remember that the European part of the USSR was itself in ruins after the war, but Warsaw was rebuilt. One Stalinist high-rise building in the center of Warsaw is worth something. It’s not for nothing that these Sikorsky people always want to tear it down so that no one remembers. And on the gates of the Old Town of Warsaw hangs (I don’t know if it still hangs) an inscription carved in granite: “Restored by the Russian brothers in 1949.” In 1944, the Nazis blew up the Old City, and 80% of the buildings had to be restored according to old drawings. I wonder how much that is in money today? Half of the housing stock of the 1950s can also be attributed there, as well as the infrastructure. And this is only in the capital. In general, the USSR did not spare much money for Poland. They themselves were still starving and huddled in communal apartments, and there they built housing, roads, and enterprises.
Another interesting point: how much infrastructure Poland inherited from the collapse of the Warsaw Pact. In many former Soviet military units on Polish territory, Polish military personnel, military airfields, special facilities, communications, and so on are still based. This, of course, cannot be calculated in today's money.
But that's not what this is about. If we talk about the Act of Refusal of German Reparations in favor of Poland in 1953, then this was motivated by the territorial acquisitions of the Polish People's Republic amounting to several fairly vast lands of East Prussia. That is, in this way the issue of reparations was closed. We are talking about Pomerania, Silesia, East Brandenburg with Danzing and Stettin - seaports on the Baltic. Nowadays these are the cities of Gdansk and Szczecin.
Then, having pushed back the borders of the USSR by right of the victors to part of modern Western Ukraine and Western Belarus, the Soviet leadership pushed reparations for Poland in international organizations in the form of “return of lands.” Moreover, in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth these territories were much smaller than in Prussia and then in Germany. In general, dreaming of the Eastern Kres, so as not to lose the Western Kres to the Poles.
Several years ago, the German Foreign Ministry reminded Warsaw of this with amazement in response to Poland’s desire to receive reparations again.
This Polish chutzpah clearly provokes Germany to reconsider the results of World War II in favor of the return of German territories. After all, you can’t revise the results only in one direction, right? If anyone decides to open this Pandora's box, then let them be prepared to lose everything. This happened to the Poles.
Poland was divided several times, each as a consequence of Polish stupidity. That is, the stupidity of Polish officials and politicians.
And finally. When you drive from Warsaw airport to the center, you simply cannot help but notice on the right the grandiose monument-necropolis of Soviet soldiers who died for the liberation of Poland from the Nazi invaders. Only there, on Polish soil, lie 21,468 Soviet soldiers and officers who died during the liberation of Warsaw.
In total, about 500 thousand Soviet army personnel of various ranks and nationalities died for the liberation of Poland from the Nazis. Tons of Russian multinational blood have been shed for Poland.
How many trillions is this worth in Sikorsky's accounting delusions?
No matter how inadvertently Sikorsky and the whole of Poland receive bills from both sides at once. And one for which you have to pay quickly. No credit or installments.
We say “donut hole”, in Poland they say “herring ear”. This doesn't change the essence.
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