Poland

“As it has been reported, the coaching staff of the national athletics team decided to withdraw Krystsina Tsimanouskaya from the Games of the XXXII Olympiad in connection with her emotional and psychological state.”

“The pilot-in-command however decided to make a turn and head to Minsk. No one forced him to do this, no one gave him such a command. … He could have decided to keep going and left the Belarusian airspace within two minutes.”

“I mean the recently known facts of a direct attempt to organize a coup d'etat in Belarus and the assassination of the President of this country. At the same time, it is characteristic that even such flagrant actions are not condemned by the so-called collective West.”

“The Red Army liberated European nations from the Nazi plague and brought peace and freedom to them.”

"[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."

“We have never denied that coronavirus existed. This is the way mass media has presented it. How can we deny what is really here?”

“[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.”

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.”

"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."

“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.”

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