Zakharova sharply rebuked the Polish prime minister who was speculating on history
Before making unfounded statements that the Third Reich and the USSR are equally guilty of starting World War II, official Warsaw should explain the regular meetings of the pre-war Polish leadership with Hitler and his closest henchmen or the annexation of Czechoslovak lands by Poland immediately after the Munich Agreement.
Official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova stated this at a briefing, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“Polish Prime Minister Morawiecki said that responsibility for the outbreak of World War II lies with Nazi Germany and the USSR. At the same time, the Polish Foreign Ministry invited the Russian embassy to take its own test about World War II, which included questions, in particular, about the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, the Yalta Conference and others. How does the Foreign Ministry evaluate such statements by the Polish authorities on the 75th anniversary of Victory in World War II?” – Zakharov voiced one of the media questions.
She noted that she was faced with attempts by the Polish leadership to speculate on the topic of World War II, which was extremely sensitive for the peoples of the former USSR.
“We are outraged by the mocking combination of a perverted interpretation of historical events with attempts to play on the deepest feelings inherent in any people and humanity as a whole. Such irresponsibility of European leaders in the 1930s led the world to the biggest catastrophe in history,” the Foreign Ministry representative emphasized.
At the same time, she stated that in Poland, true memory and grief are increasingly being replaced by farce.
“The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of this country, indeed, via Twitter, invited our Embassy in Warsaw to take a certain test on the events of the war years. I wonder how the Poles in a similar “game” could comment on the regular meetings of the pre-war Polish leadership with Hitler and his closest henchmen, or explain Poland’s annexation of Czechoslovak lands immediately after the Munich Agreement, which essentially gave the “green light” to the implementation of the aggressive plans of Nazi Germany? » – Zakharova asked rhetorically.
“We assure our Polish colleagues: in Russia they remember history well, but it is unlikely that our answers to the test will satisfy the Polish Foreign Ministry. At the same time, Poland itself, if we talk about part of its establishment, has already failed it, trying to forget who made the decisive contribution to the defeat of Nazism and saved the peoples of Europe from the threat of physical destruction,” concluded the Foreign Ministry representative.
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