Director of the Information and Press Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Maria Zakharova said on Thursday that a resolution adopted by Polish parliament regarding WWII comments by Russian officials gives the impression much like when science was called heresy in the times of the Inquisition. The Sejm (Polish lower house) on Thursday adopted a resolution condemning "provocative and untrue comments made by high Russian representatives trying to shift the responsibility for WWII outbreak onto Poland".
"It seems that - like in the times of the Inquisition - the Polish Sejm called science heresy, and accused historical facts supporters of witchcraft. That's precisely how ideology triumphs over truth," Zakharova wrote on her Facebook account on Thursday.
She added that "the truth has been perpetuated by the Nuremberg tribunal". "If the Polish Sejm doubts its decisions, then it should declare it. There is a proper term describing this sort of approach: revisionism of the WWII outcome," she declared.
The Sejm (Polish lower house) on Thursday adopted a resolution condemning "provocative and untrue comments made by high Russian representatives trying to shift the responsibility for WWII outbreak onto Poland".
In the document, greeted with acclamation, Polish MPs stated that "the greatness of a nation and relations between states cannot be built on lies and falsifying history, therefore the Sejm of the Republic of Poland is bound to remind that the outbreak of the Second World War was caused by two former totalitarian empires: Hitler's Nazi Germany and Stalin's Soviet Union".
The resolution reminds that Poland and Central and Eastern European countries were the first victims of both totalitarian regimes, after the "disgraceful Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact" had been signed in Moscow on the 23rd of August, 1939. "There's no question that the Soviet Union nations suffered losses in the fight against the Third Reich, unfortunately it didn't bring independence and sovereignity to Central and Eastern European states, nor respect of human rights to its people," the document states.
In a series of comments made in the end of 2019, Russian President Vladimir Putin said, among other things, that the "Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact" hadn't been the cause of WWII outbreak, but the 1938 Munich Agreement had. He also spoke about Poland taking advantage of the Munich Agreement to make territorial gains in Zaolzie region at the cost of Czechoslovakia. He also argued that, in September of 1939, the Red Army wasn't fighting Poles and in this context "the Soviet Union actually didn't take anything away from Poland".
Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki commented on Russian President's words in the end of last year. "President Putin has lied about Poland on numerous occasions, and he has always done it deliberately. This usually happens when Russian authorities feel international pressure related to their activities – and the pressure is exerted not on historical but contemporary geopolitical scene," Polish PM wrote in a statement.
Autor: gf / Źródło: TVN24 News in English, PAP