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Russia lying about causes of WWII: Polish gov’t spokesman

10.01.2020 12:44
A Polish government spokesman said on Friday that Warsaw cannot allow Russia to spread lies and try to shift the blame for the outbreak of World War II onto Poland.
Piotr Mller
Piotr Müller Photo: PAP/Paweł Supernak

Piotr Müller said that Russia was "simply lying when it comes to the causes of the outbreak of World War II.”

Müller, cited by state news agency PAP, added that a resolution passed by the Polish parliament on Thursday condemning “provocative and untrue” comments by Russian authorities would not improve relations with Moscow.

“At the moment, there seems to be a situation where relations are getting worse,” he said.

But he added: “We simply can't allow lies about Polish history" to be spread.

Russian President Vladimir Putin recently suggested that Poland was partly responsible for the war.

Putin also 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.

The Polish parliament on Thursday passed a resolution which said that “two totalitarian powers of the time led to the outbreak of World War II: Nazi Germany and the Stalinist Soviet Union.”

Polish President Andrzej Duda on Tuesday accused Putin of “post-Stalinist revisionism”.

Meanwhile, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said in late December that Putin “has lied about Poland on numerous occasions.”

(pk)

Source: PAP