Press Secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov called outrageous and unacceptable the statement of Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, who compared the Russian world with a "cancerous tumor."

“This is an absolutely outrageous statement, rabid and unacceptable.

This is the quintessence of that hatred for the Russians, which, probably, like metastases, struck both the entire Polish politics and the entire Polish leadership, and, in fact, Polish society in many respects, to our regret, ”the Kremlin spokesman told reporters.

"Zero Tolerance"

Recall that on May 10, an article by Mateusz Morawiecki was published on the website of the British newspaper The Telegraph.

In it, the Polish prime minister called the ideology of the Russian world "the equivalent of communism and Nazism of the 20th century."

“It is with this ideology that Russia substantiates its imaginary rights and privileges.

It also serves as the basis for the story of the “special historical mission” of the Russian people,” Morawiecki wrote.

According to the head of the Polish government, the Russian world is "a cancerous tumor that has not only struck a large part of Russian society, but also poses a mortal threat to all of Europe."

  • Prime Minister of Poland Mateusz Morawiecki

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From Morawiecki's point of view, the West should not only support Ukraine in its "armed struggle against Russia", but also "completely eradicate this horrific new ideology."

In a RT commentary, Vladimir Olenchenko, a senior researcher at the Center for European Studies at IMEMO RAS, called Morawiecki "a propagandist in the worst sense of the word."

According to the expert, the rhetoric of the Polish prime minister is close to the style of expressions used by Joseph Goebbels, the propaganda minister and president of the Imperial Chamber of Culture of Nazi Germany.

“Comparison of the Russian world with a cancer shows the intellectual poverty of Morawiecki.

Such primitive metaphors indicate that he is not able to adequately express his thoughts and can only resort to the hackneyed method of generating an external enemy for the population, ”Olenchenko believes.

Morawiecki's article in The Telegraph is not the first case of demonstration of hatred against Russia and the Russian people by representatives of the Polish political leadership since the beginning of the special operation of the RF Armed Forces.

In early April, the Polish Deputy Prime Minister, head of the Ministry of Culture Piotr Glinsky, while recognizing the great achievements of Russian art, music and literature, nevertheless stated that Russian culture “should disappear from public space” in connection with the events in Ukraine. 

“Now is not the time for Russian ballet, let alone the Alexandrov choir.

Now is not the season for Chekhov and even Pushkin.

Russian culture must disappear from public space, ”Glinsky told reporters after a meeting of the EU Council on Education, Youth, Culture and Sports in Luxembourg.

In an interview with RT, political scientist Boris Mezhuev, associate professor at Moscow State University, regarded Glinsky's words as Poland's desire to become a "key operator of anti-Russian policy", including in the field of culture.

Warsaw, according to the expert, is trying to achieve a “zero tolerance regime in relation to” the Russian world and Russia.

“Modern Poland is jealous of the achievements in the field of high culture that our country has.

She would like to press Russian classical culture.

In this and in its other anti-Russian actions, Warsaw sees a way to become a quasi-empire, to assert the status of an outpost of anti-Russian politics in culture, defense and public life,” Mezhuev said.

"Heirs of the ideas of Nazism"

Another manifestation of the increased hatred of Russia in Poland, experts called a new wave of demolition of monuments to the Red Army, which began this spring.

In mid-April, the Polish Institute of National Remembrance compiled a list of 60 monuments to be dismantled.

Almost immediately after that, the authorities dismantled three memorials, which were located in the Wielkopolska and Lower Silesia voivodeships.

Earlier in Warsaw, at the largest memorial cemetery in Poland, where the remains of more than 21 thousand soldiers of the 1st Belorussian Front are buried, unknown persons desecrated the pedestal of the monument, leaving red inscriptions on it. 

  • Red painted statue of a Red Army soldier in Poland

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The head of the Investigative Committee, Alexander Bastrykin, ordered an investigation into this act of vandalism.

The head of the Institute of National Remembrance, Karol Nawrocki, justifies the elimination of monuments to the Red Army by the need to remove from the public space of Poland "all names and symbols that still commemorate people, organizations, events or dates that symbolize communism."

According to experts, a new page of the war with memorials to Soviet soldiers in Poland and a surge of Russophobia largely "inspired" the similar blasphemous actions of the authorities and the nationalist movements of the Baltic countries and Ukraine.   

So, speaking on May 11 to the deputies of the Estonian parliament, the country's Prime Minister Kaja Kallas announced the need to continue the demolition of the monuments of the Red Army.

“A plan should be developed to remove these monuments - and this must be done taking into account all the nuances, in no case desecrating the graves of the fallen, if they are there,” said the head of the Estonian government.

Earlier, in mid-April, at the Military Cemetery in Tallinn, unknown people damaged the famous statue of the Bronze Soldier.

Despite this, on May 8 and 9, the Bronze Soldier was literally buried in flowers.

And shortly before Victory Day, vandals drew a swastika on the monument to the Red Army soldiers in the city of Tartu and covered the monument with obscene words.

Acts of vandalism against monuments to Soviet soldiers are also taking place in Lithuania.

In April, barbarians desecrated several memorials to Soviet soldiers in Palanga and at the cemetery of Red Army prisoners of war in Kaunas.

The monument to the fighters of the 16th Lithuanian division of the Red Army, located in the Klaipeda region in the village of Aukshkiemyai, was attacked.

In turn, the Riga City Council voted on May 13 to dismantle the monument to the liberators, located in the capital of the republic.

It is worth noting that on May 9, a huge number of local residents came to the monument, but the flowers that they brought to the foot of the monument were removed by the municipal services with a tractor. 

  • Children lay flowers at the memorial to the liberators in Riga

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According to Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, Riga caters to local nationalists who seek to legalize the demolition of Red Army monuments.

“The main victim has already been identified.

This is a monument to the soldiers of the Soviet army - the liberators of Riga from the Nazi invaders, the most famous memorial in Latvia and in the entire Baltic region.

Every year on May 9, hundreds of thousands of residents of the capital come here to pay tribute to the heroes-liberators, ”the press service of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs quotes Zakharova.

The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry called "blasphemy and mockery" the removal of flowers laid at the monument to the liberators of Riga.

“The very next morning, thousands of Rigans gave a worthy response to this cowardly action of the heirs of the ideas of Nazism - they again brought flowers to the monument and laid them on the entire square in front of the monument, lit candles and sang songs of Victory,” Zakharova said.

According to the representative of the RF Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the “bacchanalia concerning monuments started by the Latvian authorities not only destroys the foundation of normal interstate relations, but also provokes an interethnic conflict in the Latvian society”.

The wave of desecration and dismantling of monuments of the Great Patriotic War did not bypass Ukraine either.

In mid-April, nationalists again demolished the monument to Marshal Georgy Zhukov in Kharkov.

The first time this monument was attacked by radicals was in June 2019, when representatives of ultra-right organizations threw the bust of the Soviet commander off the pedestal.

The city authorities restored the monument, but the nationalists continued to fight it, constantly dousing it with paint.

And the city council of Chervonograd, Lviv region, shortly before Victory Day, decided to eliminate the Eternal Flame memorial - a monument erected at the site of the battle of the Red Army with the Nazi invaders, and a memorial sign to the Hero of the Soviet Union Alexei Lopatin.

Leading expert of the Russian Institute for Strategic Studies Oleg Nemensky believes that hatred of the monuments of the Great Patriotic War in Poland, the Baltic states and Ukraine clearly demonstrates the Russophobic nature of these states.

In a RT commentary, the political scientist emphasized that the ideology of these Eastern European countries is largely built on opposing and fighting everything related to Russia.

“Poland has not thought of itself outside the Russophobic context for a long time.

With the Baltics and Ukraine, a slightly different story: after the collapse of the USSR, they built their identity on the suppression of those Russians who remained there, uprooting the unifying Soviet past and Russian culture.

Hatred of Russia has become the basis of their statehood, which has become especially characteristic of modern Ukraine, ”concluded Nemensky.