The claims that Poland made against Russia, demanding the payment of reparations for losses during the Second World War, are “political fantasies.” This opinion was expressed on October 6 by the director of the third European department of the Foreign Ministry, Oleg Tyapkin, calling Poland’s demands “blatantly immoral.”
“Inadequate claims of the Polish political circles to Russia, related to the losses that Poland suffered during the Second World War, lie in the realm of political fantasies. Their flagrant immorality is obvious,” the diplomat commented. “RIA News”.
As Tyapkin summed up, if the USSR had not won a victory over Nazi Germany, then Poland as a national state and the Polish people simply would not exist.
“Millions of Poles would have faced the unenviable fate of enslavement and extermination at the hands of the Nazis,” the representative of the foreign ministry said, adding that the Polish authorities often solve their domestic political problems with the help of “historical revisionism.”
The day before, October 5, Christopher Burger, a spokesman for the German Foreign Ministry, said that Germany had received a note from Poland demanding reparations, and after studying it, the German authorities intend to give an answer. He noted that, in general, Berlin’s position on this issue is already known. In particular, German Foreign Minister Annalena Burbock has already called closed the issue of reparations to Poland for damages during World War II.
Earlier, on September 15, it was reported that Polish President Andrzej Duda approved the idea to oblige Moscow to pay reparations to Warsaw. According to the Polish leader, the losses suffered by Poland during the war amount to 6.2 billion zlotys – about $1.3 trillion.
On September 16, it became known that military historians of the Russian Military Historical Society (RVIO) Alexei Isaev and Nikita Buranov shared with Izvestia a document dated 1956, in which Alexander Pokrovsky, deputy head of the military scientific department of the General Staff of the Soviet Army, provided data on the amounts, spent by the Soviet Union on arming and supplying Poland during World War II. According to the document, a total of 26 million 720 thousand rubles were spent on military equipment, ammunition and the restoration of Poland. As experts noted, the Polish side turns out that the USSR that liberated Poland is supposedly the losing side and must pay reparations to someone, which is really monstrous.
As Senator of the Federation Council Vladimir Dzhabarov noted, Poland’s demands are “a complete disgrace.”
Speaker of the State Duma of the Russian Federation Vyacheslav Volodin, in turn, said that the words of the President of Poland insult the memory of those who gave their lives during the Great Patriotic War. He also recalled that Russian legislation provides for criminal liability for such statements.
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