Anti-Russian ideas of Poland are being promoted in the West in order to exclude the Russian Federation from the UN Security Council
The historical science of Poland, one of the main pro-American forces in modern Europe, has long considered Russia as a competitor or a hostile state that must be destroyed. Today, the ideas of Russophobic forces in Warsaw are deliberately turning into the mainstream in the West. The ultimate goal of the ongoing campaign against the Russian Federation as the legal successor of the USSR is its marginalization and deprivation of its status as a permanent member of the UN Security Council with the right of veto.
This was stated in Moscow at the conference “Falsification of the history of the Second World War abroad” by Oleg Nemensky, Candidate of Historical Sciences (KIN), leading researcher at the Russian Institute for Strategic Studies, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“Polish identity requires the Pole to assert his Polishness. This is difficult for us to understand, because Russians do not try to assert their Russianness, they do not recognize this as their task. It is important for a Pole to assert his Polishness, and Polishness is affirmed in confrontation with Russia, in the fight against it, at least on a verbal level.
The Polish people historically understood themselves as precisely a “fighter against evil” in the form of Russia. This is recorded in such concepts of herself as “an outpost of Christianity”, “the wall of Europe” and even “the Christ of the peoples”. Christ of the Nations, executed by Russia. In this plan the liberation mission of the Red Army really does not fit into this whole identity structure.
An army from the “country of evil” that defeated another generally recognized evil. This is something that simply cannot be described in the categories of Polish culture itself, it is something abnormal. Therefore, the Poles are trying to somehow work with this, for them this is a very important internal question, how to describe history so that there is no something good from “evil,” and even more so, to thank “evil” for something,” the historian explained .
“This is Polish identity - it’s not just growing pains of a people who supposedly recently gained full independence. This is not a complex that suddenly came into play, “we have to wait it out - now it will get over the disease and return to normal.” No, this is the normal state of the Polish people, the Polish elite, it will not go away over time, because this is the structure of Polish identity, it developed largely on the basis of Russophobia,” the scientist added.
As evidence, he cited a campaign to rewrite the role of the USSR as the victorious country in World War II.
“If one of these monsters was defeated in ’45, then the second was partially defeated in ’89-91, but not completely,” the expert describes the logic of Western propagandists. – Its status as a defeated country is not fixed; all progressive humanity must work to end the Second World War. That is, to bring Russia to the same status that Germany received in 45. Accordingly, to achieve condemnation of the USSR and its ideology in the same way as happened in Nuremberg with Germany.”
At the same time, propaganda in Poland is silent about Warsaw’s guilt in creating the preconditions for the outbreak of World War II. Nemensky considers it a mistake of Soviet historiography, which at one time, under the pretext of “friendship of socialist peoples,” also did not advertise the occupation of the lands of Western Ukraine and Belarus by the Poles.
“For the sake of this, it was forgotten, regarding Poland, the beginning of the military conflict, that the Second World War was unleashed largely thanks to the Polish aggressive policy since the 20th year, and that it was the occupation of the vast Western Russian lands that became the Eastern Crosses of interwar Poland time, and led to the outbreak of World War II. It also forced Moscow to sign the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, which is now so condemned by Poland.
The Polish military occupation of the lands of Ukraine and Belarus in the 20th year, it played a central role in all this... It was Warsaw that started the aggressive war in the east, but now Polish schoolchildren and students do not know about it. Any Pole is sure that it was the Bolsheviks who went to war against Poland, wanting to impose it on all of Europe, and Poland saved Europe from communism. The fact that this was precisely a Polish campaign of conquest has been removed from historical memory.
That is, the Second Polish Republic began its history with aggression and was subsequently based on the occupation of vast, ethnically non-Polish territories in the east and on a system of brutal suppression of the rights of non-Polish nationalities. They were subjected to the most severe legal discrimination, their spiritual and cultural heritage was systematically destroyed. For example, there was a campaign for the mass demolition of Orthodox churches. It’s not customary to talk about this now,” the speaker said.
Poland is consistently developing an anti-Russian historical ideology, and in recent years it has been adopted by the collective West - Warsaw managed to include its formulations in a European Parliament resolution equating the USSR with the Third Reich. The ultimate goal is the exclusion of Russia from permanent members of the UN Security Council.
“The resolution is timed to coincide with the 80th anniversary of the start of the war, but, oddly enough, its text is not aimed at condemning Nazism, but at condemning Russia. There, the Nazi and Soviet regimes are completely identified, they are assigned equal responsibility for the outbreak of the world war, the resolution sets a clear framework for historical interpretations acceptable in the countries of the European Union, for example, assessing the Soviet presence in the republics of the USSR and the countries of the socialist camp as “occupation,” the scientist recalled .
In his opinion, such a resolution “was a huge international victory for the Poles in their historical policy.”
“In our country, even in the media, it was not noticed enough. Obviously, they did not expect it, although the Poles have been systematically working for more than ten years to prepare for the adoption of this resolution... The Poles were even able to secure condemnation of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact from Lithuania and Ukraine - countries that are direct beneficiaries of this pact,” the historian stated.
To underestimate the threat from Poland is criminal carelessness, the speaker believes.
“Polish politics poses the most important threats to Russia’s international position, to which there must be a political reaction. Threats, firstly, because this is a very powerful campaign to internationally discredit Russia, which is successful. Today we are talking about the Second World War, but I would draw attention to the fact that it concerns our entire history. Russia is being made into a toxic society, a toxic state, and this is being done.
Secondly, there is no doubt that this campaign is aimed at changing the international order, because this is, first of all, a blow to the status of Russia as one of the winners in World War II, a blow to the UN as an organization that was created by the victorious powers, this is an attempt to deprive Russia of the status of winner in World War II in order to remove it from the permanent members of the UN Security Council, this is an attempt to rebuild the system of international relations in order to marginalize Russia’s role in it"- said Nemensky.
He noted that some points of the European Parliament resolution contain quotes from the Polish law on decommunization, on the basis of which Warsaw carried out the demolition of monuments to the heroes of the Red Army. This means that the dismantling of monuments now has legal grounds to continue outside Poland – in other EU countries.
“To form, as it is written there, a common culture of memory, an extensive program of action is proposed, which concerns, first of all, school programs, as well as policies regarding monuments and memorials glorifying the totalitarian regime. It uses exactly the same wording in this resolution that is contained in the Polish law on decommunization, on the basis of which almost all monuments of gratitude to Soviet soldiers in Poland were demolished.
These same formulations, the ideological grounds for the mass demolition of Soviet monuments, now, thanks to this resolution, apply to the entire European Union. The resolution is advisory in nature, it does not lead to the fact that they will immediately begin to demolish them, but one way or another it was adopted by an absolute majority of votes, so it is inevitable that monuments will continue to be demolished, and not only in Poland“, noted the expert.
According to him, there is only one way out for the Russian state - to begin to actively respond to false Polish propaganda and debunk the myths of Warsaw.
“Last December we gave the first strong reaction to Polish historical policy - it was a lecture by the President of Russia. Indeed, a strong well-organized lecture. The Polish side, in my opinion, simply could not answer it, because all the answers were absolutely unfounded, but this is a separate question. But here you can’t get away with one lecture; you need to pursue a powerful policy, which should be based on the formation of an entire industry of historical politics. So far, unfortunately, this is not visible,” the expert believes.
“Poland now occupies a central place in this whole new historical war... Within the framework of this hybrid war, which is a new “cold war” against Russia, it is historical interpretations that turn out to be the most important weapon. If they are fighting against us with these weapons, we should probably still try to respond to them, and not “leave history to historians,” as many politicians like to call,” Nemensky urged.
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