Poland
Sunday 24 January 2021
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“The Red Army liberated European nations from the Nazi plague and brought peace and freedom to them.”
The Red Army did drive the Nazis out of Hungary and other Central/Eastern European countries, but the Soviets ushered in an era of dictatorships. -
"[T]he countries belonging to the Western culture do not sign the convention for moral reasons and those who signed it keep on withdrawing from it."
45 countries and the EU signed the EU Convention on protecting women against violence, and 34 of them ratified it. None have withdrawn from it, but Turkey and Poland are considering doing so. -
“We have never denied that coronavirus existed. This is the way mass media has presented it. How can we deny what is really here?”
Lukashenko downplayed the risks of COVID-19 multiple times in the run-up to his rigged re-election victory Sunday. -
“[I]t is unfair to claim that the two-day visit to Moscow of Nazi Foreign Minister Ribbentrop was the main reason for the start of the Second World War. All the leading countries are to a certain extent responsible for its outbreak.”
Putin’s view is not shared by most historians. The subsequent Molotov-Ribbentrop pact between the USSR and Germany triggered the Nazi invasion of Poland, and it provided Soviet economic aid that made German conquests possible. -
CLAIM: “The thing is, while this plaque was placed on the Medical Academy building illegally, without any historical grounds, it … is a historic relic of a sorts because of how many spears were broken by the opponents and supporters of that version. So today common sense finally prevailed, which is supported by historic documents that there were no such executions and so on.”
Russia admitted in 1990 that the Soviet Union’s secret police executed tens of thousands of Polish POWs during WWII. In 2010, Russia published the archival documents proving the NKVD carried out the mass executions. Those documents are no longer accessible. -
"Poland did not let Russian aircraft carrying aid to Italy pass through its airspace. This is meanness at the level of public policy. Moreover, the help was for an ally of Poland in the EU and NATO. From now on, Russia should not meet Poland half-way, on any issue."
Poland denied closing its airspace to Russian aircraft carrying virus aid, and its Foreign Ministry said Russia never requested access. -
Russian Politician Glosses Over History’s Complexity, Blames Poland for Nazi Death Camps on Its Soil
“Hundreds of extermination and death camps where Jews, Slavs, and prisoners of war of other nationalities were purposefully extinguished were located in Poland. This was largely facilitated by the pre-war atmosphere in Poland and the position of the leadership of this country, which fueled anti-Semitic sentiments in society, creating the ground for the subsequent genocide and the Holocaust. And for this, the current leadership of Poland must apologize to the Jews and the whole world.”
The German death camps in Poland during World War II were set up under Nazi leadership amid a brutal occupation; blaming Polish anti-Semitism for the camps is at best a gross oversimplification. -
We fact check six false or misleading claims by made by the Russian Foreign Ministry in its annual review of the Kremlin’s policy initiatives.
Each year, the Russian Foreign Ministry issues an annual review. Polygraph.info fact-checks six of the false or misleading claims made about cybersecurity, Syria, the United States, Latin America and the INF treaty. -
While ‘brain dead’ @NATO annual #military budget exeeds [sic] $1 trillion, #Russia spends on defence 23 times less (only $46 bln). Neretheless, [sic] #fake Russian threat is used to justify even more waste of taxpayers’ $. Good for business strategy, dangerous for intl. peace & security”
It’s no surprise that NATO’s 29 countries collectively spend more on defense than Russia alone. -
“Poland, the Baltic States and, for some time now, Ukraine, without even realizing that they are acting to their own detriment, are trying to do everything they can to, as they see it, harm Russia. That is why they are impeding the expansion of Russian gas projects and acting solely for the sake of the United States, contrary to their own national interests.”
Poland, the Baltic states and Ukraine oppose Nord Stream 2 and TurkStream because these projects endanger their energy security. They have launched new regional initiatives, working in solidarity, not to harm Russia or satisfy the Unites States, but to enhance their national interests.