Poles furious after Russian Federation blames them for starting WWII

In a meeting advertised by privately used broadcaster TVN24 on Friday at night, envoy Sergey Andreyev declared that Poland was at somewhat liable for Nazi Germany’s breach, due to the fact that it had over and over obstructed the foundation the most group against Berlin inside the run-up to the tension. The comment prompted Poland’s Foreign Ministry to declare Saturday that the ambassador “undermines historical truth” and seems to be trying to justify Stalinist crimes.

‘Poland was therefore partly responsible for the disaster which then took place’.

World War II began after Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union sealed a pact in 1939 that included a secret provision to carve up Poland.

“The Russian ambassador will be summoned to the foreign ministry on Monday so that this issue is clarified to him by a foreign ministry representative” Schetyna told reporters.

Asked about the Russian ambassador’s comments, Polish prime minister Ewa Kopacz replied: “Even children in Poland know that neither Ribbentrop nor Molotov were Polish”.

He also tried to excuse the Soviet invasion of Poland as an act of self-defence, prompting furious recriminations from the Polish government, accusing the Kremlin of attempting to re-write history.

Relations have never been easy since Poland, a former Soviet bloc nation, rejected Moscow’s control and embraced the West, joining North Atlantic Treaty Organisation and the European Union. Warsaw has been one of the most vocal critics of Russia’s actions – which Moscow denies – and a strong proponent of upholding economic sanctions against it.

Hours before the interview with Andreyev was aired, Moscow had summoned Poland’s ambassador to Russian Federation, Katarzyna Pelczynska-Nalecz after gravestones were vandalized in a Soviet cemetery in a Polish town 20 kilometers from the Belarusian border.