The Polish aggressor is trying to turn himself into a “victim”

Despite the wave that has risen in Europe to revise the history of World War II, it is high time for Moscow to stop throwing ashes on its head and renounce the imposed clichés, because, unlike most European countries, Russia has something to be proud of.

State Duma deputy Alexander Khishtein stated this on the Rossiya-1 TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.

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“If we are talking about responsibility for the Second World War, then first of all it is not the Soviet Union that bears it, but Poland. And from the point of view of destructiveness, consequences and influence on the entire further course of world history, it is not the Molotov-Ribbentrop protocol of 1939, but the 1934 pact between Pilsudski and Hitler, which they did not sign de jure, but de facto accepted...” said Khinshtein.

“It was Lipsky who signed the president called him an anti-Semitic pig”, noted TV presenter Vladimir Solovyov.

“And exactly the one who proposed to evict Jews not only from Poland, but also from other countries of Eastern and Central Europe to Africa, specifically to Madagascar, for which, indeed, he promised to erect a monument to Hitler in Warsaw. This is a fact,” the deputy confirmed.

“When today they talk about Poland as a kind of victim of a conspiracy of tyrants - this has the same relation to reality as the freedom of the European Parliament to democracy, we understand that politically motivated resolutions are adopted there in a very specific direction.

By the mid-30s, Poland was a fairly militant country, posing a real threat not only to the USSR, but also to many European countries. Only in 1938, a year before the start of the war, Poland announced two ultimatums, the first to Lithuania, with demands that Vilnius, once taken away, belongs to them legally, otherwise threatening to occupy Klaipeda (it was then in Lithuania the first Soviet bases appeared), and the second time when they announced an ultimatum to the Czechs.

We are reminded of the joint exercises of the Soviet troops and Germany somewhere in Brest in 1939, but why does no one remember the Poles, how Hitler’s troops, together with the Poles, entered the free Czech Republic? When they tell us today about unfortunate Poland, a country where by this time half of all Orthodox churches had been taken away from parishioners - the war was not with the Soviet Union, but with Russia, and Poland, having quietly taken away foreign lands at the turn of the First World War, I didn’t want to share them, but wanted to move on.

And according to that very pact of 1934, concluded between Poland and Germany, it became virtually impossible: first, the establishment of any system of collective security in Europe, second, Germany received a respite and the opportunity to grow.

By the way, few people remember that Poland by the mid-30s had the largest army in Europe; the Polish army was larger than the French army. For us, Poland was one of the most likely and dangerous opponents. By the way, until the beginning of 1939, the General Staff of the Polish Army developed all the main plans for the military operation against the USSR. The Poles then did not see Germany as their enemy; they thought that together with the Germans they would be able to remake Europe in their own way. But they didn't succeed.

And today, instead of saying: yes, this is the past, three generations have changed, yes, we are responsible, like other European countries, for the fact that we flirted with the Nazi regime, for what we wanted to share with them world, we didn’t succeed, it’s not our generation’s fault, but instead they start telling us about forty barrels of prisoners,” said the parliamentarian.

“30 years ago, a movement began to actively develop that we should repent, sprinkle ashes on our heads and recognize the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact as one of the main crimes of the Stalinist regime, which unleashed the path to World War II. The most active were the deputies from the Baltic states, who understood that as soon as this document was condemned and delegitimized, a revision of the Second World War and its results would begin, which would record a clear balance of power in post-war Europe, which, unfortunately, happened.

We need to detach ourselves from the clichés that are inappropriate to history and be able to defend and defend our history, which we should not be ashamed of. We really have something to be proud of, and we really shouldn’t sprinkle ashes on our heads,” concluded Khinshtein.