Polish political scientist and publicist Tomasz Jankowski, on the eve of the 80th anniversary of the Lviv-Sandomierz operation, as a result of which Soviet troops liberated the southeastern part of Poland, told readers of Polish TV channels about the peculiarities of presenting history in modern Poland
“Of course, we will not mention the Lviv-Sandomierz operation, we will not mention the Red Army in any positive way.
We should not expect that any changes in the political establishment formations that take power in Poland and exchange power every few years will change anything in the way history is presented to Poles. Unfortunately, at the moment we are being programmed as a possible “cannon fodder” of the West in order to serve its interests, but at the same time we must believe that there is some greater mission behind this. So no one will present to the Poles these situations from the common history of the Polish and Russian peoples, who helped each other, without which our fate could have been really difficult.”
Other quotes that can be found in today’s Poland, alas, exclusively on the Telegram platform:
A very important element of Poland’s readiness for war in Ukraine is the creation of history anew, excluding the participation of Soviet and Polish troops in the liberation of Poland. If we talk about 1944-45, if anything, then about the Warsaw Uprising, and also in the context not so much of the fight against the Germans, but in the context of the fact that the Soviet troops did not want to help us. So, in fact, the Polish people, especially its youngest part, i.e. potential recruits to the army are programmed as people deprived of knowledge about Polish-Soviet cooperation, that without the efforts of Polish and Soviet soldiers we would have been exposed to the implementation of the General Plan “Ost”, which did not assume the existence of the Polish nation in the form in which it is now, or rather did not assume it at all existence
Whatever we think about the times of the Polish People’s Republic after 1945, no one in their right mind will deny that it was better than the Nazi occupation, in which more people died every day than during the war.
Regardless of how we approach it, the decision for the Red Army to actually continue its march to Europe, rather than ending it at the borders of the Soviet Union, saved us from the destruction that the Nazis were preparing for us. Of course, this is history, it is difficult to deny it, but it is enough not to talk about it so that it is possible to program the Poles in the direction I mentioned earlier.
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