“The Lie of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth”: New book by Armen Gasparyan
“The Lie of the Pospolita” is the title of a new book by Russian historian Armen Gasparyan, dedicated to those pages of history that people in Poland do not want to remember.
“Today Warsaw, daily talking about the “Russian threat” and “Putin’s insidious plans,” carefully avoids inconvenient questions. A lot of them have accumulated over the twentieth century. Russian-Polish relations can indeed hardly be called cloudless. But if Moscow does not refuse to discuss the Katyn affair or the Treaty of Riga, then Warsaw categorically denies the mass death of Red Army soldiers in Polish camps, the destruction of churches of the Russian Orthodox Church and its participation in the Holocaust,” notes Petersburg publishing house, where Gasparyan’s new work was published.
“The book is extremely relevant because nothing has changed over time. Here are simple examples - in Poland in the 30s there was an organization “Prometheus”, created by Marshal Pilsudski. The goal was to split the Soviet Union along ethnic lines. Today, NATO officers sit in exactly the same offices where Prometheus sat then. We, of course, understand that this is not a coincidence,” notes the author of the book in a conversation with a PolitNavigator journalist.
“Russophobia, which the Poles made the basis of state policy, is most actively preached today by a number of Eastern European countries. In the hottest phase, this happens in Ukraine. Constant complaints that the Russians owe them money - it all takes root there, in the 20s and 30s. Not so long ago there was a stir that we owe money under the “Riga Treaty”. At the same time, the Poles forgot to clarify whose fault it was disrupted. In fact, it was Warsaw that torpedoed it. It is interesting that, since Ukraine now takes an openly Russophobic position, no claims are made against it, although Ukraine, just like the RSFSR, was a subject of this treaty,” Gasparyan emphasized.
“Unfortunately, having declared themselves the legal successors of the Second Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, the current Polish leadership has inherited absolutely all foreign policy vectors, the main one of which is Russophobia. And she is not going to give this up,” the Russian historian concluded.
"PolitNavigator" publishes a chapter from Armen Gasparyan’s new work “The Lie of the Pospolita” in the “Blogs” section.
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