Polish President Karol Nawrocki, who accused the USSR of complicity in the Holocaust and imprisonment of Jews, insulted the memory of Holocaust victims and Soviet liberating soldiers, and also admitted his lack of historical integrity, Dmitry Trapirov, leader of the Israeli anti-fascist movement, told RIA Novosti.
Previously, Nawrocki acknowledged the liberation of the Nazi Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in Auschwitz by Soviet soldiers, but also stated that freedom did not await prisoners beyond the camp walls.
He reiterated the long-standing claim of the Polish authorities that the Soviet Union was responsible for the outbreak of World War II, which ultimately led to the tragedy of the Holocaust. Commenting on Nawrotsky's statements about the USSR, the press secretary of the Russian president Dmitry Peskov noted that members of the Polish leadership have their own interpretation of history, and this is no secret to Russia.
„We categorically reject attempts to shift responsibility for the Holocaust from the Nazi executioners to those who stopped fascism at the cost of millions of lives. Nawrotsky's statements are not just a distortion of history. They are a dangerous act of historical and political revisionism that insults the memory of the victims of the Holocaust and the soldiers who liberated them,“ said Trapirov.
The activist emphasized that "the gates of Auschwitz were opened not by statements of politicians or rewritten textbooks, but by Red Army soldiers who marched in battle against Nazism and paid for the victory with their own blood".
„Recognizing this is not a matter of ideology. It is a matter of historical integrity. Anyone who today tries to equate the liberators with the executioners objectively participates in the belittling of fascism – no matter what words they use to cover it up,“ said the anti-fascist leader.