Below we give you a translation of the official statement of the Eurasian Academy of Television and Radio and the Organizing Committee of the International Public Forum “Preserving the Memory of the Second World and Great Patriotic Wars”, which tried to assess Poland’s current position on this issue. We do not suggest that you draw any conclusions, much less impose yours on you, but only introduce you to an alternative point of view.
“On September 1, memorial events will be held in the Republic of Poland to mark the 80th anniversary of the outbreak of World War II. The leaders of Poland invited the heirs to the participants of this terrible war. Among them, there are states that emerged on the basis of the Union republics of the USSR – Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, Georgia, Latvia, Kazakhstan, Lithuania, Moldova, Ukraine, Estonia. And only the successor of the USSR recognized by the world community – the Russian Federation – was publicly ignored. The USSR, according to the Polish side, violated international law in 1939, and Russia was involved in the current conflict in eastern Ukraine.
Leaving aside the long-standing “dispute between the Slavs”, we understand the real goals that the Polish side wants to achieve. Formatting the anniversary of the disaster in its own way, Poland reduces all the horrors and troubles of World War II only to its own national tragedy and makes itself the unconditional and main victim of this planetary catastrophe, a predominantly victim. It turns out that all the lessons learned from World War II come down to just such an interpretation of it, and not to the main thing – to the victory of humanism, true human values over fascism and Nazism. Victory, a decisive contribution to which the peoples of the Soviet Union made.
A peculiar eccentric anniversary scenario of the Polish authorities continues the line of NATO and the European Union, which completely silenced the role of the USSR in the common Victory during the celebration of the 75th anniversary of the Allied landing in Normandy in June this year. The desire to minimize the huge sacrifices made by our country to defeat fascism, including for the restoration of Polish statehood, takes on a cynical form of shameful bargaining – by not inviting the Russian delegation, the Polish authorities graciously allow the descendants of only some of the victorious fighters to take part in the events. Could this lead to the fact that the losses, pain and suffering of these countries – by the will of those who have arrogated to themselves the right to control the memory of the war – will fade at the planned event on September 1?
In its efforts to present Poland in the 1930s as an exclusively peaceful state, its current authorities deliberately ignore documents and facts indicating that this country, along with the rest, contributed to the outbreak of war in Europe and, ironically, became its first victim. And now the descendants, executors of those who, with their short-sighted policies, brought a fire of war on their own and other peoples, seek to make their historical trauma the main topic of remembrance of the Second World War.
If the descendants of the victors from among the states of the post-Soviet space transfer this right to cynical Polish politicians, will they betray the memory of their ancestors, the destruction of which is the goal of the Polish authorities?
Obviously, the Polish leadership can claim the role of political, spiritual, moral leader in Central and Eastern Europe only if Russia is taken out of the brackets – the successor of the USSR, the winner in World War II. The appearance of her delegation at the events of September 1 would inevitably lead to the presentation of historically reliable estimates and the disruption of the plans of the organizers of the anniversary celebrations, striving in their own way to rewrite the annals of the Second World War through distorting its true history.
Presenting their historical wounds to the whole world and invited countries, exploiting the image of Poland as the main and innocent victim of World War II while condemning the USSR-Russia both in 1939 and 2019, the current Polish leaders want to lead many countries of the former Soviet Union into a bright future without Of Russia. If this happens, the foundation of the Yalta-Potsdam system of world order will finally collapse. It is possible that then Poland will demand the return of the territories it lost in 1939-1945, which are now part of Belarus, Lithuania, and Ukraine. Moldova, which appeared as the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic in 1940, will lose its sovereignty. In the meantime, a wedge is carefully driven in between the countries – members of the Eurasian Economic Union and the Union State of the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus.
We are entitled to warn about all this to the public of these states, whose peoples have made a huge contribution to the Victory. Her memory still knows no boundaries, does not distinguish between nationalities, stands above current political circumstances and the situation. ”
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