Polish PM furious at Putin rewriting history of second world war. Mateusz Morawiecki attacks Russian president’s ‘lies’ blaming Poland for start of war
Poland’s prime minister has launched a furious response to claims by Vladimir Putin that Poland was partially responsible for the outbreak of the second world war.
Morawiecki was responding to a speech by Putin at a summit of heads of former Soviet states in St Petersburg on 20 December. Putin gave the assembled leaders an hour-long history lecture, drawing on a sheaf of archival documents he had brought with him. The Russian president has also raised the issue at a number of other meetings in recent days, including a gathering of top army generals in which he called Poland’s ambassador to Nazi Germany “a scumbag and an antisemitic pig”.
Putin, in his recent speech, insisted that the pact was born of Soviet defensive requirements and only came about after other western powers, including Poland, had signed their own agreements with the Nazis. Putin pointed to Neville Chamberlain’s 1938 Munich agreement in particular, saying war became inevitable after this point.
Sergey Radchenko, professor of international relations at the University of Cardiff, said Putin’s claims were highly selective and historically dubious in places, but he also criticised the European parliament resolution for equating Nazi and Soviet guilt for the outbreak of the war. However, Donald Tusk, a former prime minister of Poland and a critic of the current government, who until recently was the president of the European council, said Poles should unite to rebut Putin’s claims.
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