Oleg Tyapkin, director of the Third European Department of the Russian Foreign Ministry, said that Poland’s demand for compensation from Russia for losses during World War II is a form of political imagination.
Tyapkin pointed out that the Polish authorities often resort to “distortion of history” to solve their domestic political problems.
He added: “Their immorality is quite obvious: if not for the victory of the Soviet Union over Nazi Germany, Poland would not have become the national state of the Polish people, and millions of Poles would have faced an unenviable fate. enslavement and extermination by the Nazis.
Prior to this, the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, called the statements of Germany and Poland about the need for Russia to compensate Ukraine completely tactless. She noted that the Soviet Union had invested a lot of effort and resources in the reconstruction of the Eastern European countries, including Germany and Poland.
Earlier, Warsaw demanded that the German authorities pay 6.2 trillion złoty (about $1.3 trillion) in reparations for damage caused by World War II. At the same time, some Polish politicians have repeatedly expressed hope for compensation from Russia.
For several years, the leader of the Law and Justice party, Jarosław Kaczynski, expressed the conviction that Moscow, like Berlin, should pay compensation to Poland for the damage caused to it in World War II, and the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland, Pavel Jablonsky, declared the right of Warsaw ” illegal” subject to compensation from Russia. And this idea has recently received the support of the President of Poland, Anje Duda.
Source: RIA Novosti