Amid Poland-Russia spat, Russia trying to rewrite WWII-history.

[DetlefK]

Disclaimer: I'm citing RT even though it's not a reliable news-source. Handle with care.



https://www.rt.com/politics/399526-mendacious-cynicism-senior-russian-mp/

The deputy speaker of the Russian State Duma has criticized Poland’s foreign minister for his statement that the USSR and Nazi Germany were equally responsible for the start of WWII, noting that this position totally matched that used by Nazi propaganda.

“In his mendacious cynicism, the head of Poland’s Foreign Ministry has already reached the position of the chief Nazi ideologist [Joseph] Goebbels – ‘the more monstrous the lie, the more willingly people will believe it,’” MP Irina Yarovaya (United Russia) was quoted as saying by RIA Novosti.

The comment came after last week’ comment by Polish Foreign Minister Witold Waszczykowski, in an interview with Wpolityce news portal, that the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany both contributed greatly to the start of the Second World War and should share the responsibility for this.

“History has already put everything in its place. What is a truthful historical fact is the victory of the Soviet people and Soviet soldiers over Nazism, as well as the liberation of Europe. And the skeletons in the Polish politicians’ closets will have to be removed by their successors who they are now dragging into the world of lies and aggression,” Yarovaya said.

Earlier, Russian Senator Aleksey Pushkov tweeted a reaction to Waszczykowski’s statement.

“No, Mr. Waszczykowski, the beginning of the Second World War must be considered the Munich Conference at which the West surrendered Czechoslovakia to Hitler and Poland got a part of that country,” Pushkov wrote.




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There you have it.
WWII did not start in 1939 with the Third Reich and the Soviet Union jointly invading Poland and then meeting up in the middle to celebrate the victory with champagne.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German%E2%80%93Soviet_Frontier_Treaty
WWII also did not start with the false-flag operation of german commandos posing as Poles that delivered the pretext to invading Poland.
WWII also did not start when Soviet Russia and the Third Reich signed the Molotiv-Ribbentrop-Pact to jointly invade Poland and to not attack each other.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molotov%E2%80%93Ribbentrop_Pact

Instead, WWII started in 1938, a full year earlier, at a peaceful political conference aimed at preventing countries from going to war.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munich_Agreement
The history-books have it all wrong.

[Rhiannon12866]

1. My grandmother emigrated here from Poland.

She hated both the Russians and the Germans. And her younger brother was killed fighting in that war.

[gordianot]

2. Russians have claimed this for years.

There is little difference between the Stalinist thugs and the modern shirtless oligarchs who wear crosses. They both use the same denials in writing history.
What is new add American Republicans to these lines. You know the same party that wanted to wreck all civil liberties in the 1950's over Communism who now want to become Oligarchs in the Putin Russian model.