Maria Zakharova: Poland is doing everything possible to make the world forget about its ties with the Third Reich

Polish leaders are doing everything possible to make the world forget the ties of Polish figures with the Third Reich. This was stated by the spokeswoman of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova, who recommended that Polish President Karol Nawrotski reread the article by Russian President Vladimir Putin about the responsibility for preserving the memory of the victims of the Great Patriotic War, TASS reports, quoted by Focus.

"According to media reports, Polish President Nawrotski, speaking at a memorial ceremony at the Auschwitz-Birkenau (Oswienzim) concentration camp museum on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, once again grossly distorted pre-war history. He repeated the false claim that the Soviet Union was responsible for the outbreak of World War II, which ultimately led to the tragedy of the Holocaust,“ the diplomat wrote on his Telegram channel.

“Officially, Warsaw is doing everything possible to ensure that the world forgets the connections of Polish figures with the Third Reich, the Pilsudski-Hitler pact and Poland's complicity in the partition of Czechoslovakia in 1938. It was for this last act that Winston Churchill called him a “hyena“, Zakharova emphasized.

“We recommend that Nawrocki reread President Vladimir Putin's article “75 Years of the Great Victory: Shared Responsibility to History and the Future“ from June 19, 2020“

According to the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry “Poland's anti-Semitism before the war was completely disgraceful“.

“Warsaw should remember the Zbonszyn expulsion - the refusal to accept its own Jewish citizens, whom the Nazis intended to send back to their homeland. To prevent their return, the Polish Sejm passed a law on the deprivation of citizenship in March 1938, which affected many Poles of Jewish origin. If one spouse or parent was deprived of citizenship, the other spouse and children were also immediately deprived of citizenship status“, the diplomat notes.

Zakharova recalled that in October 1938, Polish diplomats received orders from Warsaw to put a special stamp in the passports of Poles abroad, which gave them the right to enter Poland. “Without such a stamp, the document became invalid. In this way, the Poles deprived Polish Jews of citizenship“, she also wrote.

“Even Nazi Berlin demanded that Warsaw repeal the law in order to begin the deportation of Jews from German territory. When trains with 20,000 Polish Jews reached the German-Polish border, Polish border guards began to put stamps in the passports of those arriving with “invalid”. In the end, only 4,000 people were allowed in. The remaining 16,000 ended up in concentration camps, thanks to the actions of the Polish authorities. Thus, Poland took a direct part in the first acts of the tragedy of the Holocaust,“ the diplomat emphasizes.