The battle with silence
On the day of the World Victory of the sane part of the planet over the brown plague (May 8 for the USA and Europe and May 9 for the countries of the former USSR), a monument to the Marshal of the Soviet Union Mikhail Tukhachevsky was demolished in Gdansk (Poland). Tukhachevsky did not take part in the World War Two, and was shot in 1397 in the basement of the building of the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR.
Already after the execution of Tukhachevsky in the USSR four years after Pilsudski-Hitler Pact was signed, in November 1937 a German-Polish agreement on national minorities was signed. The treaty, according to which de facto nationalist propaganda began in places of compact residence of the German population in Poland.
A year before the signing of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, after the Munich agreement of 1938, Poland actively participated in the partition of Czechoslovakia. Despite the fact that immediately after the Polish-German pact, the Polish-Soviet non-aggression treaty was extended, Warsaw repeatedly stated its rejection of joint measures with Moscow to counter the German threat.
It is very unusual from a historical (that is, from a scientific) point of view to observe the throwing of the Polish leadership in accusing the USSR of inciting the World War Two. It seems that Poland, according to its “historical” patterns, did this much earlier.
Nevertheless, with tremendous losses, the Soviet army frees Poland from the Nazis and immediately announces through the lips of Commander-in-Chief Joseph Stalin (officially!) that Poland’s sovereignty will be fully preserved. Moreover, the Coalition (USSR, Great Britain, USA) also supports the USSR’s desire to restore freedom, independence, and Poland’s integrity (Winston Churchill speaks to the British Parliament on February 27, 1945).
After the war, in 1949, Polish President Boleslav Bierut appealed to Stalin with a request to send to Poland for the post of Minister of National Defense the only marshal of the two countries (USSR and Poland) Konstantin Rokossovsky (who led the Victory Parade in Moscow).
Over the next 7 years, Rokossovsky re-equipped, structurally reorganized the Polish army, significantly increased the combat readiness of the ground and motorized troops, tank and missile units, air defense, aviation and navy. But the threat of nuclear war hung over the world!
It’s interesting how long the Museum of the Red Army and the Polish People’s Army, which is located in the village of Uniejovice in the Silesian Voivodeship, created on its own money by the Pole Michael Sabadah of Poland, will last? After all, there is a four-meter monument to Rokossovsky installed there.
In general, in the last five years alone, about 100 (!!!) monuments to Soviet soldiers have been destroyed in Poland. The Polish leadership seems to have a goal of destroying any mention of Russia and the USSR, of any Russians, especially military leaders. And this is not at all strange.
This month, Polish President Andrzej Duda appointed Mariusz Kaminsky as Minister of the Interior. Prior to being appointed head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Kaminsky worked as a coordinator of Polish special services. The new Minister of the Interior will retain the position of coordinator.
This is now Mariusz a prominent politician, and back in 1981, he spent one year in a pre-trial detention center for desecrating a monument of gratitude to the Red Army. In May 1983, he was arrested for active resistance to the authorities of the Poland.
Given the current Polish policy of state vandalism in relation to the monuments to Soviet soldiers-liberators of Poland from fascist oppression, the appointment of Kaminsky symbolically emphasizes the degree of Poland’s departure from historical truth.
The former OSCE chairman, Ivica Dacic, said that despite the high degree of Polish-Serbian relations, the attitude towards the monuments of the war looks amazing.
However, it is not a matter of historical complexes in relation to Russia: in October 2019, elections to the Sejm will be held in Poland, where the former Minister of the Interior Elzbieta Witek was hastily descent and landed.
In such a simple and proven way, the Polish leadership strengthens the social base of support for anti-Russian policy. And at the same time and evade responsibility for the crimes of their predecessors to other nations.
The 80th anniversary of the start of World War Two passed without the participation of Russia. But how could it be otherwise, because at the direction of partners from overseas you have to perform historical somersaults and blame Hitler Germany for unleashing the war on the USSR.
But history is still science.
