The wpolityce.pl website said a photo showing the Polish prime minister on his account has drawn a massive number of posts in Russian and from accounts in that country, some of them highly critical.
One internet user accused Morawiecki of spreading lies, the website reported.
“Could this be the Kremlin reacting so nervously to Polish efforts in defence of historical truth?” wpolityce.pl said.
Russian President Vladimir Putin last month suggested that Poland was partly responsible for the outbreak of World War II, and claimed that the Soviet Union helped “save lives” after it invaded Poland in 1939 following the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact between the USSR and Nazi Germany.
The comments triggered anger in Warsaw. Morawiecki said at the time that Putin “has lied about Poland on numerous occasions, and he has always done it deliberately.”
According to wpolityce.pl, “the historical truth is simple: without the German-Soviet alliance, World War II would not have broken out and there would not have been millions of victims.”
The website reported that Russia’s ambassador to Poland, Sergey Andreyev, on Monday argued that Poland owed a huge debt to his country for World War II.
The wpolityce.pl website quoted Prof. Wojciech Polak, a historian and academic linked to the Warsaw-based Institute of National Remembrance, as saying that any talk of the Poles having to be grateful to the Soviets smacked of “insolence.”
“It is the Soviets who owe us huge damages for the crimes and robberies they perpetrated in Poland,” Polak said, as quoted by wpolityce.pl.
“That's how it was and such a narrative should dominate when it comes to Polish-Soviet relations,” he added, according to wpolityce.pl.
'Russia should pay': Polish conservative leader
Jarosław Kaczyński, leader of Poland’s ruling conservative Law and Justice (PiS) party, was quoted as saying in an interview published by a German newspaper on Saturday that "not only Germany but also Russia" should pay Poland compensation for the damage they inflicted on the country during WWII.
“Russia should pay, too,” Kaczyński told the Bild newspaper in the interview, as cited by Poland’s PAP news agency.
He added: “I don’t think our generation will live to see Russia admitting its responsibility.”
But “one thing is certain: our demands will not expire,” Kaczyński said, as quoted by the Polish state news agency.
(gs/pk)
Source: wpolityce.pl, PAP