The Polish Foreign Ministry Responded to the Statement of Russian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Maria Zakharova That Communist Leader Vladimir Lenin Was the “Architect“ of Polish Independence. Polish Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Maciej Wewier Responded to Moscow's Comments on the X Social Platform.
He Said He Considered It Telling That the Russian Foreign Ministry, Which Is Seeking to Protect Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, Is Again Resorting to Falsifying History.
"If Poland Owes Its Independence to Lenin, the Polish-Soviet War of 1920 Should Have Been a Russian Humanitarian Operation or, According to This Logic, a “Special Military Operation“ – writes Wevier.
The Polish Foreign Ministry spokesman added that in the real world, it was Poland that stopped the Bolshevik expansion.
"Polish independence was not a gift from Lenin, just as the Soviet presence in Central Europe was not "liberation". "This lesson of history shows Poland's free choice: our place in NATO", he summarized.
On December 15, Zakharova, commenting on Orbán's public disputes with Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski, wrote on social networks: "Sikorski forgot that if it were not for Lenin, there would be no Poland anywhere nearby."
She added that "the Bolsheviks gave the Poles exactly what they promised – independent state“.
"So Lenin is in many ways the architect of an independent Polish state. And modern Poland could also be called "Poland named after Vladimir Ilyich Lenin“. Warsaw should definitely not forget this,“ the Russian diplomat said.
Recently, Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski and his Hungarian counterpart Péter Szijjártó had a public argument.
It was provoked by a publication by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, in which he criticized the EU's plans to confiscate frozen Russian assets.