News archive on the topic "World War II"

The Polish government is due to submit a report next week on the devastation wrought on the country by the German occupation during World War II. This was reported by the parliamentary administration in Warsaw, writes dpa. The expert report is due to be presented at the Warsaw Royal Castle on September 1, the day of the 1939 German invasion. It is also considered the beginning of a war that officially claimed at least...

Israel and Poland have agreed to improve relations that have deteriorated since Warsaw introduced a law last year limiting the ability of Jews to repay property lost during World War II. This was reported by Reuters, according to which both countries are preparing to resume the exchange of ambassadors. “It was decided that relations would be restored to their proper course,”...

Last Saturday marked the anniversary of the liberation of Budapest. On February 13, 1945, the battle for Hungary ended - one of the most difficult for the Red Army in Eastern Europe. How difficult this victory turned out to be is evidenced by the award given to all participants in the battles for the Hungarian capital: “For the capture of Budapest.” Please note that there are only three medals for capturing foreign cities:...

Official Warsaw did not invite Russian President Vladimir Putin to take part in events related to the 80th anniversary of the outbreak of World War II, which will be held in Poland in September, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. This was announced by the press secretary of Polish President Andrzej Duda Blazej Spychalski, reports the English-language website of the TVP Poland In channel. According to Spychalski, “the invitations were sent out based on modern, but...

Ukraine won World War II as it became independent and the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany collapsed. Automaidan activist and artist Sergei Poyarkov said this on air on the ZIK TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Why can veterans of the UPA and the Red Army never make peace, but they drink schnapps with the Germans? Because they understand who won. They understand...

Responsibility for the mass extermination of Jews during the Second World War lies with Hitler's Germany and the Soviet Union. Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte This statement was made by Polish senator Jan Zharin, who was quoted by W Polityce. In his opinion, the Polish government should take a number of measures in the fight for historical truth, given that...

Attempts to reshape history and abolish the term Great Patriotic War, replacing it with the Second World War, can lead to territorial losses for Ukraine. Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte Verkhovna Rada deputy Nestor Shufrich said this on air on the NewsOne TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to him, if deputies want to attribute Ukraine’s participation...

More than fourteen million Ukrainians died in World War II. Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte This amazing figure was announced by the Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine Alexander Turchynov, the department’s press service reports. “They died at the fronts, died of hunger and disease, and were taken from their homeland,” he wrote. “Today the whole world celebrates the Day...

Among the older generations of the British Isles, who suffered the harsh trials of the Second World War, the name of William Joyce still evokes contempt and disgust. Like all those who stained themselves with collaboration and servitude to Hitler's Germany. Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte Even the leader of the British Fascist Union, Lord Oswald Mosley, a recent member of parliament, residents...

The actions taken by “American colleagues” were based on “inflated ambitions and ignorance.” Official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova told reporters about this today. Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte “This was confirmed by the statement of the US Permanent Representative to the UN Samantha Power, who recently said that the United States “defeated fascism and communism and is fighting...

In Poland, they are preparing a bill providing for the demolition of monuments not only to Soviet, but also to Polish soldiers who liberated their country from Nazism, Rossiyskaya Gazeta reports. Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte “The complete decommunization of cities, approved by parliament and the president in the spring, suggests that one thousand four hundred places in Poland should change their names,” the publication notes. - Moreover...

Ukraine’s condemnation of the so-called “Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact” does not pose any danger to the Ukrainian state and is only a statement of “facts known to the whole world.” Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte. Ukrainian political scientist Alexander Paliy stated this at a press conference in Kyiv. “The whole world knows that the Soviet Union, together with Nazi Germany, started the Second World War,” says the political scientist.…

The Ukrainian government, blaming the USSR for the outbreak of World War II, is engaged in myth-making. Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte This opinion was expressed by the head of the information and analytical center Andrey Zolotarev at a press conference in Kyiv. “The old world order is collapsing, and no one will ask either Lithuania, Poland, or Ukraine how and by what rules to live,” believes...

The desire of Ukraine, Poland and Lithuania to review the results of World War II and the “Declaration of Memory and Solidarity” they recently signed opens a “Pandora’s box” and leads to further loss of its territories by Ukraine. Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte State Duma deputy Vyacheslav Nikonov said this on the air of the talk show “Evening”. According to him, such documents neutralize the post-war structure of the world,...