Aggressive rhetoric
and the demolition of monuments to fighters against fascism and playing the
first fiddle in imposing the EU’s anti-Russian sanctions are the direct
evidence of this, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.
MOSCOW, December 22.
/TASS/. Polish authorities have undermined relations with Moscow for many years
as well as the work of experts seeking to study challenging issues of the two
countries’ history, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told
TASS on Sunday.
"Warsaw’s
representatives for many years have undermined the work of experts and
bilateral relations," Zakharova said commenting on the Polish Foreign
Ministry’s statement in connection with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s
remark on World War II. "Aggressive rhetoric and the demolition of
monuments to fighters against fascism and playing the first fiddle in imposing
the EU’s anti-Russian sanctions are the direct evidence of this."
During his annual
news conference on December 19, Putin recalled that the USSR was the last
country in Europe, which signed the treaty on non-aggression with Germany,
known as the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. Putin noted that the Soviet forces
entered Poland in line with protocols under this pact, but earlier Poland had
taken part in dividing Czechoslovakia. By the moment when the Soviet troops
entered the territory, the Polish government had lost control over the armed
forces and fled the country. As the Russian president said, "there was no
one to talk to."
In response, the
Polish Foreign Ministry voiced concerns over Putin’s remark. In its statement,
the ministry noted that Putin’s words "represented a wrong picture of
events" and aroused concerns and mistrust.
Russian-Polish
experts are working as part of a commission on challenging historic issues in
bilateral relations, set up to overcome contradictions over different
viewpoints on the events of the past.
Source: ITAR-TASS
22-12-2019
