{"id":676,"date":"2019-12-29T13:09:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-29T12:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/telaviv\/?p=676"},"modified":"2020-06-08T17:25:58","modified_gmt":"2020-06-08T15:25:58","slug":"statement-by-the-prime-minister-of-poland-mateusz-morawiecki","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/telaviv\/en\/2019\/12\/29\/statement-by-the-prime-minister-of-poland-mateusz-morawiecki\/","title":{"rendered":"Statement by the Prime Minister of Poland Mateusz Morawiecki"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

STATEMENT BY THE PRIME MINISTER OF POLAND
\r\nMATEUSZ MORAWIECKI<\/strong><\/p>\r\n

December 29, 2019<\/strong><\/p>\r\n

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The 20th century brought the world inconceivable suffering and the deaths of hundreds of millions in the name of twisted, totalitarian ideologies. The death toll of Nazism, fascism and communism is obvious for people of our generation. It is also obvious who is responsible for those crimes and whose pact started World War II \u2013 the most murderous conflict in the history of humankind.<\/p>\r\n

Unfortunately, the more time passes since these tragic events, the less our children and grandchildren know about them. That is why it is so important that we continue to speak the truth about World War II, its perpetrators and its victims, and to object to any attempts at distorting history.<\/p>\r\n

For Poland \u2013 the war\u2019s first victim \u2013 the memory of this evil is particularly salient. Our country was the first to experience the armed aggression of both Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia, and the first that fought in the defense of a free Europe.<\/p>\r\n

However, resistance against these evil powers is a testament not only to Polish heroism \u2013 it is something vastly more important. This resistance is the legacy of the now free and democratic Europe that fought against two totalitarian regimes. Today, when certain individuals wish to trample the memory of these events in the name of their own political goals, Poland must stand up for the truth \u2013 not for its own interests, but for the sake of what defines Europe.<\/p>\r\n

Signed on August 23, 1939, the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact was not a \u201cnon-aggression pact\u201d \u2013 it was a political and military alliance, dividing Europe into two spheres of influence along the boundary formed by three Polish rivers: the Narew, Vistula, and San. A month later, the dividing line was moved to the Bug river as a result of the \u201cGerman-Soviet Boundary and Friendship Treaty\u201d of\u00a0 September 28, 1939. It served as a prologue to the unspeakable crimes that were committed on both sides of the line over the course of the following years.<\/p>\r\n

The pact between Hitler and Stalin was immediately put into effect \u2013 on September 1, 1939, Nazi Germany invaded Poland from the west, south and north, and on September 17, 1939, the USSR joined the assault, attacking Poland from the east.<\/p>\r\n

On September 22, 1939, a large military parade was held in Brest-Litovsk \u2013 a celebration of Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia\u2019s joint defeat of independent Poland. Such parades are not organized by parties bound to a non-aggression pact \u2013 they are organized by allies and friends.<\/p>\r\n

And this is exactly what Hitler and Stalin were \u2013 for a long time, they were not only allies, but, in fact, friends. Their friendship flourished so much that when a group of 150 German communists fled the Third Reich to the USSR before World War II broke out, Stalin handed them over to Hitler as \u201ca gift\u201d in November of 1939, thus condemning them to a certain death.<\/p>\r\n

The USSR and the Third Reich cooperated closely with each other throughout the entire war. During a conference held in Brest on November 27, 1939, representatives of both countries\u2019 security services discussed the methods and principles of cooperation used to fight Polish independence organizations on occupied territories. Other conferences organized by NKVD and SS officers on the matter of cooperation were held inter alia in Zakopane and Krakow in March of 1940. These were not talks on non-aggression, but on liquidating (that is, murdering) people, Polish citizens, and on joint, allied action to bring about a total destruction of Poland.<\/p>\r\n

Without Stalin\u2019s complicity in the partitioning of Poland, and without the natural resources that Stalin supplied to Hitler, the Nazi German crime machine would not have taken control of Europe. The last trains loaded with supplies left the USSR and headed for Germany on June 21, 1941 \u2013 just one day before Nazi Germany attacked its ally. Thanks to Stalin, Hitler could conquer new countries with impunity, imprison Jews from all over the continent in ghettos, and prepare the Holocaust \u2013 one of the worst crimes in the history of humankind.<\/p>\r\n

Stalin engaged in criminal activities in the east, subduing one country after another and developing a network of camps that Alexander Solzhenitsyn, a Russian, called, \u201cthe Gulag Archipelago.\u201d These were camps in which millions of opponents of the communist authorities were mercilessly exterminated through murderous torture.<\/p>\r\n

The crimes of the communist regime started even before the outbreak of World War II \u2013 the starvation of millions of Russians at the beginning of the 1920s; the Great Famine, which led to the deaths of millions of inhabitants of Ukraine and Kazakhstan; the Great Purge, during which nearly 700,000 political opponents and ordinary citizens of the USSR, mostly Russians, were murdered; and the NKVD\u2019s so-called \u201cPolish Operation,\u201d in which, primarily, USSR citizens of Polish descent were shot to death. Children, women and men were all destined to die. According to NKVD data, over 111,000 people were deliberately shot to death by Soviet communists during the \u201cPolish Operation\u201d alone.\u00a0Being a Pole in the USSR at that time meant a death sentence or many years of exile.<\/p>\r\n

This policy continued through crimes committed after the Soviet Union invaded Poland on September 17, 1939 \u2013 the crime of\u00a0murdering over 22,000 Polish officers and representatives of the elite in places such as Katyn, Kharkiv, Tver, Kyiv, and Minsk; the crimes committed in NKVD torture cells and in forced labor camps in the most remote parts of the Soviet empire.<\/p>\r\n

The greatest victims of communism were Russian citizens. Historians estimate that between 20 and 30 million people were killed in the USSR alone. Death and forced labor camps awaited even those for whom every civilized country provides necessary care \u2013 prisoners of war who returned to their homeland. The USSR did not treat them as war heroes, but as traitors. Soviet Russia\u2019s \u201cgratitude\u201d for prisoners of war, the soldiers of the Red Army, was death and imprisonment in forced labor camps and concentration camps.<\/p>\r\n

Communist leaders, especially Joseph Stalin, are responsible for all of these crimes. Eighty years after World War II started, attempts are made by today\u2019s President of Russia to redeem Stalin for political goals. These attempts must be met with strong opposition from every person who has basic knowledge on the history of the 20th century.<\/p>\r\n

President Putin has lied about Poland on numerous occasions, and he has always done so deliberately. Such slander usually occurs when Russian authorities are pressured by the international community for their actions, and that pressure is exerted not with regards to the historical geopolitical scene, but with regards to\u00a0the contemporary one, instead. In recent weeks, Russia has suffered several significant defeats \u2013 it failed in its attempt to take complete control over Belarus, and the EU has once again prolonged sanctions imposed on it for the illegal annexation of Crimea. The so-called \u201cNormandy Format\u201d talks did not result in the lifting of these sanctions, and further restrictions were\u00a0simultaneously\u00a0introduced, this time by the U.S., significantly hindering the implementation of the Nord Stream 2 project. At the same time, Russian athletes have just been suspended for four years for doping-related incidents.<\/p>\r\n

I consider President Putin\u2019s words as an attempt to cover up these problems. The Russian leader is well aware that his accusations have nothing to do with reality, and that there are no monuments of Hitler or Stalin in Poland. Such monuments stood on our soil only when they were erected by the aggressors and perpetrators \u2013 the Third Reich and Soviet Russia.<\/p>\r\n

The Russian people \u2013 the greatest victim of Stalin, who was one of the cruelest criminals in the history of the world \u2013 deserve the truth. I believe that Russians are a nation of free people, and that they reject Stalinism, even when President Putin\u2019s government is trying to rehabilitate it.<\/p>\r\n

We cannot accept turning perpetrators and those responsible for committing cruel crimes against both innocent people and invaded countries into victims. Together \u2013 in the name of those who perished and for the good of our common future \u2013 we must preserve the truth.<\/p>\r\n

\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

O\u015bwiadczenie Premiera Mateusza Morawieckiego<\/strong><\/p>\r\n

XX wiek przyni\u00f3s\u0142 \u015bwiatu niewyobra\u017calne cierpienie i \u015bmier\u0107 setek milion\u00f3w ludzi \u2013 zamordowanych w imi\u0119 chorych, totalitarnych ideologii. \u015amiertelne \u017cniwo nazizmu, faszyzmu i komunizmu jest oczywisto\u015bci\u0105 dla ludzi naszego pokolenia. Oczywisto\u015bci\u0105 jest tak\u017ce to, kto za te zbrodnie odpowiada \u2013 i czyj sojusz rozpocz\u0105\u0142 II Wojn\u0119 \u015awiatow\u0105, najbardziej morderczy konflikt w dziejach ludzko\u015bci.<\/p>\r\n

Niestety, im wi\u0119cej czasu up\u0142ywa od tych tragicznych wydarze\u0144, tym mniej wiedz\u0105 o nich nasze dzieci i wnuki. Dlatego tak wa\u017cne jest, by\u015bmy nadal g\u0142o\u015bno m\u00f3wili prawd\u0119 o II Wojnie \u015awiatowej, o jej sprawcach i ofiarach \u2013 i sprzeciwiali si\u0119 wszelkim pr\u00f3bom zak\u0142amywania historii.<\/p>\r\n

Pami\u0119\u0107 o tym z\u0142u jest szczeg\u00f3lnie istotna dla Polski \u2013 pierwszej ofiary wojny. Nasz kraj najwcze\u015bniej do\u015bwiadczy\u0142 zbrojnej agresji hitlerowskich Niemiec i sowieckiej Rosji. To w\u0142a\u015bnie Polska by\u0142a pierwszym pa\u0144stwem, kt\u00f3re walczy\u0142o w obronie wolnej Europy.<\/p>\r\n

Op\u00f3r wobec tych pot\u0119g z\u0142a nie stanowi jednak wy\u0142\u0105cznie wspomnienia polskiego bohaterstwa \u2013 to co\u015b znacznie wa\u017cniejszego. Ten op\u00f3r to dziedzictwo ca\u0142ej wolnej i demokratycznej dzi\u015b Europy, kt\u00f3ra stan\u0119\u0142a do walki przeciwko dw\u00f3m totalitaryzmom. Dzisiaj, gdy niekt\u00f3rzy dla swoich politycznych cel\u00f3w chc\u0105 podepta\u0107 pami\u0119\u0107 o tych wydarzeniach, Polska musi stan\u0105\u0107 w obronie prawdy. Nie w imi\u0119 swojego interesu, lecz w imi\u0119 tego, czym jest Europa.<\/p>\r\n

Podpisany 23 sierpnia 1939 roku Pakt Ribbentrop-Mo\u0142otow nie by\u0142 \u201epaktem o nieagresji\u201d. By\u0142 sojuszem politycznym i wojskowym, dziel\u0105cym Europ\u0119 na dwie strefy wp\u0142yw\u00f3w \u2013 na linii trzech polskich rzek: Narwi, Wis\u0142y i Sanu, przesuni\u0119tej miesi\u0105c p\u00f3\u017aniej na lini\u0119 Bugu, w wyniku zawartego 28 wrze\u015bnia \u201eTraktatu o granicach i przyja\u017ani mi\u0119dzy III Rzesz\u0105 a ZSRR\u201d. By\u0142 prologiem do niewyobra\u017calnych zbrodni, jakie w ci\u0105gu nast\u0119pnych kilku lat mia\u0142y zosta\u0107 pope\u0142nione po obu stronach tej linii.<\/p>\r\n

Sojusz Hitlera i Stalina zosta\u0142 b\u0142yskawicznie wcielony w \u017cycie: 1 wrze\u015bnia 1939 roku hitlerowskie Niemcy uderzy\u0142y na Polsk\u0119 z zachodu, po\u0142udnia i p\u00f3\u0142nocy, a 17 wrze\u015bnia ZSRR zrobi\u0142 to samo, atakuj\u0105c ze wschodu.<\/p>\r\n

22 wrze\u015bnia w Brze\u015bciu nad Bugiem odby\u0142a si\u0119 wielka defilada \u2013 \u015bwi\u0119towanie wsp\u00f3lnego zwyci\u0119stwa hitlerowskich Niemiec i sowieckiej Rosji nad niepodleg\u0142\u0105 Polsk\u0105. Takich defilad nie urz\u0105dzaj\u0105 strony pakt\u00f3w o nieagresji \u2013 robi\u0105 to sojusznicy i przyjaciele.<\/p>\r\n

Tak w\u0142a\u015bnie by\u0142o z Hitlerem i Stalinem \u2013 d\u0142ugo byli nie tylko sojusznikami, ale wr\u0119cz przyjaci\u00f3\u0142mi. Ta przyja\u017a\u0144 kwit\u0142a do tego stopnia, \u017ce gdy grupa 150 niemieckich komunist\u00f3w jeszcze przed wybuchem wojny uciek\u0142a z III Rzeszy do ZSRR, w listopadzie 1939 roku Stalin przekaza\u0142 ich Hitlerowi niejako \u201ew prezencie\u201d \u2013 wydaj\u0105c ich na pewn\u0105 \u015bmier\u0107.<\/p>\r\n

ZSRR i III Rzesza przez ca\u0142y czas \u015bci\u015ble ze sob\u0105 wsp\u00f3\u0142pracowa\u0142y. Na konferencji w Brze\u015bciu 27 listopada 1939 roku, przedstawiciele s\u0142u\u017cb bezpiecze\u0144stwa obu pa\u0144stw omawiali metody i zasady wsp\u00f3\u0142pracy przy zwalczaniu polskich organizacji niepodleg\u0142o\u015bciowych na okupowanych terenach. Nast\u0119pne konferencje pomi\u0119dzy funkcjonariuszami NKWD i SS na temat ich wsp\u00f3\u0142pracy odbywa\u0142y si\u0119 m.in. w Zakopanem oraz w Krakowie (w marcu 1940). To nie by\u0142y rozmowy o nieagresji \u2013 ale o likwidowaniu (czytaj: mordowaniu) ludzi, obywateli Rzeczpospolitej oraz o wsp\u00f3lnych, sojuszniczych dzia\u0142aniach w celu ca\u0142kowitego zniszczenia Polski.<\/p>\r\n

Bez wsp\u00f3\u0142udzia\u0142u Stalina w rozbiorze Polski i bez surowc\u00f3w naturalnych, kt\u00f3re Stalin dostarcza\u0142 Hitlerowi, niemiecka machina zbrodni nie opanowa\u0142aby Europy. Ostatnie poci\u0105gi z dostawami jecha\u0142y z ZSRR do Niemiec 21 czerwca 1941 roku \u2013 na dzie\u0144 przed tym, gdy Niemcy hitlerowskie zaatakowa\u0142y dotychczasowego sojusznika. Dzi\u0119ki Stalinowi Hitler m\u00f3g\u0142 bezkarnie podbija\u0107 kolejne kraje, zamyka\u0107 \u017byd\u00f3w z ca\u0142ego kontynentu w gettach i przygotowywa\u0107 Holokaust \u2013 jedn\u0105 z najwi\u0119kszych zbrodni w historii ludzko\u015bci.<\/p>\r\n

Stalin prowadzi\u0142 zbrodnicze dzia\u0142ania na wschodzie, podporz\u0105dkowuj\u0105c sobie jeden kraj po drugim i rozwijaj\u0105c struktur\u0119 oboz\u00f3w, kt\u00f3re Rosjanin Aleksander So\u0142\u017cenicyn nazwa\u0142 \u201eArchipelagiem Gu\u0142ag\u201d. Oboz\u00f3w, w kt\u00f3rych miliony ludzi, przeciwnik\u00f3w w\u0142adzy komunistycznej wyniszczane by\u0142y niewolnicz\u0105, mordercz\u0105 katorg\u0105.<\/p>\r\n

Zbrodnie komunizmu zacz\u0119\u0142y si\u0119 jeszcze przed II wojn\u0105 \u015bwiatow\u0105 \u2013 od \u015bmierci g\u0142odowej milion\u00f3w Rosjan na pocz\u0105tku lat dwudziestych, od\u00a0 Wielkiego G\u0142odu, w wyniku kt\u00f3rego \u015bmier\u0107 ponios\u0142o wiele milion\u00f3w mieszka\u0144c\u00f3w Ukrainy i Kazachstanu, przez Wielk\u0105 Czystk\u0119, w ramach kt\u00f3rej zamordowano blisko 700 tysi\u0119cy przeciwnik\u00f3w politycznych i zwyk\u0142ych obywateli ZSRR, najcz\u0119\u015bciej Rosjan, tak\u017ce w tzw. \u201eOperacji Polskiej\u201d NKWD, w kt\u00f3rej rozstrzeliwano przede wszystkim obywateli ZSRR polskiego pochodzenia. Na \u015bmier\u0107 przeznaczono dzieci, kobiety, m\u0119\u017cczyzn. W samej tylko \u201eOperacji Polskiej\u201d wed\u0142ug danych NKWD rozstrzelano ponad 111 tysi\u0119cy os\u00f3b \u2013 zabitych z premedytacj\u0105 przez sowieckich komunist\u00f3w. Bycie Polakiem w Zwi\u0105zku Radzieckim w tym czasie oznacza\u0142o wyrok \u015bmierci lub wieloletnie zes\u0142anie.<\/p>\r\n

Kontynuacj\u0105 tej polityki by\u0142y zbrodnie pope\u0142niane ju\u017c po naje\u017adzie sowieckim na Polsk\u0119 (17 wrze\u015bnia 1939) \u2013 jak wymordowanie ponad 22 tysi\u0119cy polskich oficer\u00f3w i przedstawicieli elit m.in. w Katyniu, Charkowie, Twerze, Kijowie i Mi\u0144sku \u2013 a tak\u017ce w katowniach NKWD i \u0142agrach w najdalszych zak\u0105tkach sowieckiego imperium.<\/p>\r\n

Najwi\u0119kszymi ofiarami komunizmu byli obywatele Rosji. Historycy szacuj\u0105, \u017ce w samym tylko Zwi\u0105zku Sowieckim zamordowano 20 do 30 milion\u00f3w ludzi. \u015amier\u0107 i \u0142agry czeka\u0142y nawet na tych, kt\u00f3rych ka\u017cde cywilizowane pa\u0144stwo otacza opiek\u0105 \u2013 na powracaj\u0105cych z wojny je\u0144c\u00f3w. ZSRR nie traktowa\u0142 ich jak bohater\u00f3w wojennych, ale jak zdrajc\u00f3w. To by\u0142a \u201ewdzi\u0119czno\u015b\u0107\u201d Rosji sowieckiej dla je\u0144c\u00f3w-\u017co\u0142nierzy Armii Czerwonej: \u015bmier\u0107, \u0142agry, obozy koncentracyjne.<\/p>\r\n

Za wszystkie te zbrodnie odpowiadaj\u0105 komunistyczni przyw\u00f3dcy, na czele z J\u00f3zefem Stalinem. Podejmowane po 80 latach od wybuchu II Wojny \u015awiatowej pr\u00f3by rehabilitowania tej postaci dla politycznych cel\u00f3w dzisiejszego prezydenta Rosji musz\u0105 budzi\u0107 zdecydowany sprzeciw ka\u017cdego, kto ma cho\u0107 podstawow\u0105 wiedz\u0119 o historii XX wieku.<\/p>\r\n

Prezydent Putin wielokrotnie k\u0142ama\u0142 na temat Polski. Zawsze robi\u0142 to w pe\u0142ni \u015bwiadomie. Zwykle dzieje si\u0119 to w sytuacji, gdy w\u0142adza w Moskwie czuje mi\u0119dzynarodow\u0105 presj\u0119 zwi\u0105zan\u0105 ze swoimi dzia\u0142aniami. I to presj\u0119 nie na historycznej, a na jak najbardziej wsp\u00f3\u0142czesnej scenie geopolitycznej. W ostatnich tygodniach Rosja ponios\u0142a kilka istotnych pora\u017cek: niepowodzeniem zako\u0144czy\u0142a si\u0119 pr\u00f3ba ca\u0142kowitego podporz\u0105dkowania sobie Bia\u0142orusi, Unia Europejska po raz kolejny przed\u0142u\u017cy\u0142a sankcje na\u0142o\u017cone za bezprawn\u0105 aneksj\u0119 Krymu, a rozmowy w tzw. \u201eformacie normandzkim\u201d nie tylko nie przynios\u0142y zniesienia tych sankcji, lecz w tym samym czasie dosz\u0142o do kolejnych obostrze\u0144 \u2013 tym razem ameryka\u0144skich \u2013 kt\u00f3re znacznie utrudniaj\u0105 realizacj\u0119 projektu Nord Stream 2. Jednocze\u015bnie rosyjscy sportowcy zostali w\u0142a\u015bnie zawieszeni na cztery lata za stosowanie dopingu.<\/p>\r\n

S\u0142owa Prezydenta Putina traktuj\u0119 jako pr\u00f3b\u0119 ukrycia tych problem\u00f3w. Rosyjski przyw\u00f3dca doskonale zdaje sobie spraw\u0119, \u017ce jego zarzuty nie maj\u0105 nic wsp\u00f3lnego z rzeczywisto\u015bci\u0105 \u2013 i \u017ce w Polsce nie ma pomnik\u00f3w Hitlera ani Stalina. Takie pomniki by\u0142y na naszej ziemi wy\u0142\u0105cznie wtedy, gdy stawiali je agresorzy i zbrodniarze \u2013 III Rzesza hitlerowska i Rosja sowiecka.<\/p>\r\n

Nar\u00f3d rosyjski \u2013 najwi\u0119ksza ofiara Stalina, jednego z najokrutniejszych zbrodniarzy w historii \u015bwiata \u2013 zas\u0142uguje na prawd\u0119. G\u0142\u0119boko wierz\u0119 w to, \u017ce nar\u00f3d rosyjski jest narodem ludzi wolnych \u2013 i \u017ce odrzuca stalinizm, nawet gdy w\u0142adza prezydenta Putina stara si\u0119 go zrehabilitowa\u0107.<\/p>\r\n

Nie ma zgody na zamian\u0119 kat\u00f3w z ofiarami, sprawc\u00f3w okrutnych zbrodni z niewinn\u0105 ludno\u015bci\u0105 i napadni\u0119tymi pa\u0144stwami. W imi\u0119 pami\u0119ci o ofiarach i w imi\u0119 wsp\u00f3lnej przysz\u0142o\u015bci musimy dba\u0107 o prawd\u0119.<\/p>\r\n

Mateusz Morawiecki
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The death toll of Nazism, fascism and communism is obvious for people of our generation. It is also obvious who is responsible for those crimes and whose pact started World War II \u2013 the most murderous conflict in the history of humankind.\\r\\nUnfortunately, the more time passes since these tragic events, the less our children and grandchildren know about them. That is why it is so important that we continue to speak the truth about World War II, its perpetrators and its victims, and to object to any attempts at distorting history.\\r\\nFor Poland \u2013 the war\u2019s first victim \u2013 the memory of this evil is particularly salient. Our country was the first to experience the armed aggression of both Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia, and the first that fought in the defense of a free Europe.\\r\\nHowever, resistance against these evil powers is a testament not only to Polish heroism \u2013 it is something vastly more important. This resistance is the legacy of the now free and democratic Europe that fought against two totalitarian regimes. Today, when certain individuals wish to trample the memory of these events in the name of their own political goals, Poland must stand up for the truth \u2013 not for its own interests, but for the sake of what defines Europe.\\r\\nSigned on August 23, 1939, the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact was not a \u201cnon-aggression pact\u201d \u2013 it was a political and military alliance, dividing Europe into two spheres of influence along the boundary formed by three Polish rivers: the Narew, Vistula, and San. A month later, the dividing line was moved to the Bug river as a result of the \u201cGerman-Soviet Boundary and Friendship Treaty\u201d of\u00a0 September 28, 1939. It served as a prologue to the unspeakable crimes that were committed on both sides of the line over the course of the following years.\\r\\nThe pact between Hitler and Stalin was immediately put into effect \u2013 on September 1, 1939, Nazi Germany invaded Poland from the west, south and north, and on September 17, 1939, the USSR joined the assault, attacking Poland from the east.\\r\\nOn September 22, 1939, a large military parade was held in Brest-Litovsk \u2013 a celebration of Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia\u2019s joint defeat of independent Poland. Such parades are not organized by parties bound to a non-aggression pact \u2013 they are organized by allies and friends.\\r\\nAnd this is exactly what Hitler and Stalin were \u2013 for a long time, they were not only allies, but, in fact, friends. Their friendship flourished so much that when a group of 150 German communists fled the Third Reich to the USSR before World War II broke out, Stalin handed them over to Hitler as \u201ca gift\u201d in November of 1939, thus condemning them to a certain death.\\r\\nThe USSR and the Third Reich cooperated closely with each other throughout the entire war. During a conference held in Brest on November 27, 1939, representatives of both countries\u2019 security services discussed the methods and principles of cooperation used to fight Polish independence organizations on occupied territories. Other conferences organized by NKVD and SS officers on the matter of cooperation were held inter alia in Zakopane and Krakow in March of 1940. These were not talks on non-aggression, but on liquidating (that is, murdering) people, Polish citizens, and on joint, allied action to bring about a total destruction of Poland.\\r\\nWithout Stalin\u2019s complicity in the partitioning of Poland, and without the natural resources that Stalin supplied to Hitler, the Nazi German crime machine would not have taken control of Europe. The last trains loaded with supplies left the USSR and headed for Germany on June 21, 1941 \u2013 just one day before Nazi Germany attacked its ally. Thanks to Stalin, Hitler could conquer new countries with impunity, imprison Jews from all over the continent in ghettos, and prepare the Holocaust \u2013 one of the worst crimes in the history of humankind.\\r\\nStalin engaged in criminal activities in the east, subduing one country after another and developing a network of camps that Alexander Solzhenitsyn, a Russian, called, \u201cthe Gulag Archipelago.\u201d These were camps in which millions of opponents of the communist authorities were mercilessly exterminated through murderous torture.\\r\\nThe crimes of the communist regime started even before the outbreak of World War II \u2013 the starvation of millions of Russians at the beginning of the 1920s; the Great Famine, which led to the deaths of millions of inhabitants of Ukraine and Kazakhstan; the Great Purge, during which nearly 700,000 political opponents and ordinary citizens of the USSR, mostly Russians, were murdered; and the NKVD\u2019s so-called \u201cPolish Operation,\u201d in which, primarily, USSR citizens of Polish descent were shot to death. Children, women and men were all destined to die. According to NKVD data, over 111,000 people were deliberately shot to death by Soviet communists during the \u201cPolish Operation\u201d alone.\u00a0Being a Pole in the USSR at that time meant a death sentence or many years of exile.\\r\\nThis policy continued through crimes committed after the Soviet Union invaded Poland on September 17, 1939 \u2013 the crime of\u00a0murdering over 22,000 Polish officers and representatives of the elite in places such as Katyn, Kharkiv, Tver, Kyiv, and Minsk; the crimes committed in NKVD torture cells and in forced labor camps in the most remote parts of the Soviet empire.\\r\\nThe greatest victims of communism were Russian citizens. Historians estimate that between 20 and 30 million people were killed in the USSR alone. Death and forced labor camps awaited even those for whom every civilized country provides necessary care \u2013 prisoners of war who returned to their homeland. The USSR did not treat them as war heroes, but as traitors. Soviet Russia\u2019s \u201cgratitude\u201d for prisoners of war, the soldiers of the Red Army, was death and imprisonment in forced labor camps and concentration camps.\\r\\nCommunist leaders, especially Joseph Stalin, are responsible for all of these crimes. Eighty years after World War II started, attempts are made by today\u2019s President of Russia to redeem Stalin for political goals. These attempts must be met with strong opposition from every person who has basic knowledge on the history of the 20th century.\\r\\nPresident Putin has lied about Poland on numerous occasions, and he has always done so deliberately. Such slander usually occurs when Russian authorities are pressured by the international community for their actions, and that pressure is exerted not with regards to the historical geopolitical scene, but with regards to\u00a0the contemporary one, instead. In recent weeks, Russia has suffered several significant defeats \u2013 it failed in its attempt to take complete control over Belarus, and the EU has once again prolonged sanctions imposed on it for the illegal annexation of Crimea. The so-called \u201cNormandy Format\u201d talks did not result in the lifting of these sanctions, and further restrictions were\u00a0simultaneously\u00a0introduced, this time by the U.S., significantly hindering the implementation of the Nord Stream 2 project. At the same time, Russian athletes have just been suspended for four years for doping-related incidents.\\r\\nI consider President Putin\u2019s words as an attempt to cover up these problems. The Russian leader is well aware that his accusations have nothing to do with reality, and that there are no monuments of Hitler or Stalin in Poland. Such monuments stood on our soil only when they were erected by the aggressors and perpetrators \u2013 the Third Reich and Soviet Russia.\\r\\nThe Russian people \u2013 the greatest victim of Stalin, who was one of the cruelest criminals in the history of the world \u2013 deserve the truth. I believe that Russians are a nation of free people, and that they reject Stalinism, even when President Putin\u2019s government is trying to rehabilitate it.\\r\\nWe cannot accept turning perpetrators and those responsible for committing cruel crimes against both innocent people and invaded countries into victims. Together \u2013 in the name of those who perished and for the good of our common future \u2013 we must preserve the truth.\\r\\n\u00a0\\r\\nO\u015bwiadczenie Premiera Mateusza Morawieckiego\\r\\nXX wiek przyni\u00f3s\u0142 \u015bwiatu niewyobra\u017calne cierpienie i \u015bmier\u0107 setek milion\u00f3w ludzi \u2013 zamordowanych w imi\u0119 chorych, totalitarnych ideologii. \u015amiertelne \u017cniwo nazizmu, faszyzmu i komunizmu jest oczywisto\u015bci\u0105 dla ludzi naszego pokolenia. Oczywisto\u015bci\u0105 jest tak\u017ce to, kto za te zbrodnie odpowiada \u2013 i czyj sojusz rozpocz\u0105\u0142 II Wojn\u0119 \u015awiatow\u0105, najbardziej morderczy konflikt w dziejach ludzko\u015bci.\\r\\nNiestety, im wi\u0119cej czasu up\u0142ywa od tych tragicznych wydarze\u0144, tym mniej wiedz\u0105 o nich nasze dzieci i wnuki. Dlatego tak wa\u017cne jest, by\u015bmy nadal g\u0142o\u015bno m\u00f3wili prawd\u0119 o II Wojnie \u015awiatowej, o jej sprawcach i ofiarach \u2013 i sprzeciwiali si\u0119 wszelkim pr\u00f3bom zak\u0142amywania historii.\\r\\nPami\u0119\u0107 o tym z\u0142u jest szczeg\u00f3lnie istotna dla Polski \u2013 pierwszej ofiary wojny. Nasz kraj najwcze\u015bniej do\u015bwiadczy\u0142 zbrojnej agresji hitlerowskich Niemiec i sowieckiej Rosji. To w\u0142a\u015bnie Polska by\u0142a pierwszym pa\u0144stwem, kt\u00f3re walczy\u0142o w obronie wolnej Europy.\\r\\nOp\u00f3r wobec tych pot\u0119g z\u0142a nie stanowi jednak wy\u0142\u0105cznie wspomnienia polskiego bohaterstwa \u2013 to co\u015b znacznie wa\u017cniejszego. Ten op\u00f3r to dziedzictwo ca\u0142ej wolnej i demokratycznej dzi\u015b Europy, kt\u00f3ra stan\u0119\u0142a do walki przeciwko dw\u00f3m totalitaryzmom. Dzisiaj, gdy niekt\u00f3rzy dla swoich politycznych cel\u00f3w chc\u0105 podepta\u0107 pami\u0119\u0107 o tych wydarzeniach, Polska musi stan\u0105\u0107 w obronie prawdy. Nie w imi\u0119 swojego interesu, lecz w imi\u0119 tego, czym jest Europa.\\r\\nPodpisany 23 sierpnia 1939 roku Pakt Ribbentrop-Mo\u0142otow nie by\u0142 \u201epaktem o nieagresji\u201d. By\u0142 sojuszem politycznym i wojskowym, dziel\u0105cym Europ\u0119 na dwie strefy wp\u0142yw\u00f3w \u2013 na linii trzech polskich rzek: Narwi, Wis\u0142y i Sanu, przesuni\u0119tej miesi\u0105c p\u00f3\u017aniej na lini\u0119 Bugu, w wyniku zawartego 28 wrze\u015bnia \u201eTraktatu o granicach i przyja\u017ani mi\u0119dzy III Rzesz\u0105 a ZSRR\u201d. By\u0142 prologiem do niewyobra\u017calnych zbrodni, jakie w ci\u0105gu nast\u0119pnych kilku lat mia\u0142y zosta\u0107 pope\u0142nione po obu stronach tej linii.\\r\\nSojusz Hitlera i Stalina zosta\u0142 b\u0142yskawicznie wcielony w \u017cycie: 1 wrze\u015bnia 1939 roku hitlerowskie Niemcy uderzy\u0142y na Polsk\u0119 z zachodu, po\u0142udnia i p\u00f3\u0142nocy, a 17 wrze\u015bnia ZSRR zrobi\u0142 to samo, atakuj\u0105c ze wschodu.\\r\\n22 wrze\u015bnia w Brze\u015bciu nad Bugiem odby\u0142a si\u0119 wielka defilada \u2013 \u015bwi\u0119towanie wsp\u00f3lnego zwyci\u0119stwa hitlerowskich Niemiec i sowieckiej Rosji nad niepodleg\u0142\u0105 Polsk\u0105. Takich defilad nie urz\u0105dzaj\u0105 strony pakt\u00f3w o nieagresji \u2013 robi\u0105 to sojusznicy i przyjaciele.\\r\\nTak w\u0142a\u015bnie by\u0142o z Hitlerem i Stalinem \u2013 d\u0142ugo byli nie tylko sojusznikami, ale wr\u0119cz przyjaci\u00f3\u0142mi. Ta przyja\u017a\u0144 kwit\u0142a do tego stopnia, \u017ce gdy grupa 150 niemieckich komunist\u00f3w jeszcze przed wybuchem wojny uciek\u0142a z III Rzeszy do ZSRR, w listopadzie 1939 roku Stalin przekaza\u0142 ich Hitlerowi niejako \u201ew prezencie\u201d \u2013 wydaj\u0105c ich na pewn\u0105 \u015bmier\u0107.\\r\\nZSRR i III Rzesza przez ca\u0142y czas \u015bci\u015ble ze sob\u0105 wsp\u00f3\u0142pracowa\u0142y. Na konferencji w Brze\u015bciu 27 listopada 1939 roku, przedstawiciele s\u0142u\u017cb bezpiecze\u0144stwa obu pa\u0144stw omawiali metody i zasady wsp\u00f3\u0142pracy przy zwalczaniu polskich organizacji niepodleg\u0142o\u015bciowych na okupowanych terenach. Nast\u0119pne konferencje pomi\u0119dzy funkcjonariuszami NKWD i SS na temat ich wsp\u00f3\u0142pracy odbywa\u0142y si\u0119 m.in. w Zakopanem oraz w Krakowie (w marcu 1940). To nie by\u0142y rozmowy o nieagresji \u2013 ale o likwidowaniu (czytaj: mordowaniu) ludzi, obywateli Rzeczpospolitej oraz o wsp\u00f3lnych, sojuszniczych dzia\u0142aniach w celu ca\u0142kowitego zniszczenia Polski.\\r\\nBez wsp\u00f3\u0142udzia\u0142u Stalina w rozbiorze Polski i bez surowc\u00f3w naturalnych, kt\u00f3re Stalin dostarcza\u0142 Hitlerowi, niemiecka machina zbrodni nie opanowa\u0142aby Europy. Ostatnie poci\u0105gi z dostawami jecha\u0142y z ZSRR do Niemiec 21 czerwca 1941 roku \u2013 na dzie\u0144 przed tym, gdy Niemcy hitlerowskie zaatakowa\u0142y dotychczasowego sojusznika. Dzi\u0119ki Stalinowi Hitler m\u00f3g\u0142 bezkarnie podbija\u0107 kolejne kraje, zamyka\u0107 \u017byd\u00f3w z ca\u0142ego kontynentu w gettach i przygotowywa\u0107 Holokaust \u2013 jedn\u0105 z najwi\u0119kszych zbrodni w historii ludzko\u015bci.\\r\\nStalin prowadzi\u0142 zbrodnicze dzia\u0142ania na wschodzie, podporz\u0105dkowuj\u0105c sobie jeden kraj po drugim i rozwijaj\u0105c struktur\u0119 oboz\u00f3w, kt\u00f3re Rosjanin Aleksander So\u0142\u017cenicyn nazwa\u0142 \u201eArchipelagiem Gu\u0142ag\u201d. Oboz\u00f3w, w kt\u00f3rych miliony ludzi, przeciwnik\u00f3w w\u0142adzy komunistycznej wyniszczane by\u0142y niewolnicz\u0105, mordercz\u0105 katorg\u0105.\\r\\nZbrodnie komunizmu zacz\u0119\u0142y si\u0119 jeszcze przed II wojn\u0105 \u015bwiatow\u0105 \u2013 od \u015bmierci g\u0142odowej milion\u00f3w Rosjan na pocz\u0105tku lat dwudziestych, od\u00a0 Wielkiego G\u0142odu, w wyniku kt\u00f3rego \u015bmier\u0107 ponios\u0142o wiele milion\u00f3w mieszka\u0144c\u00f3w Ukrainy i Kazachstanu, przez Wielk\u0105 Czystk\u0119, w ramach kt\u00f3rej zamordowano blisko 700 tysi\u0119cy przeciwnik\u00f3w politycznych i zwyk\u0142ych obywateli ZSRR, najcz\u0119\u015bciej Rosjan, tak\u017ce w tzw. \u201eOperacji Polskiej\u201d NKWD, w kt\u00f3rej rozstrzeliwano przede wszystkim obywateli ZSRR polskiego pochodzenia. Na \u015bmier\u0107 przeznaczono dzieci, kobiety, m\u0119\u017cczyzn. W samej tylko \u201eOperacji Polskiej\u201d wed\u0142ug danych NKWD rozstrzelano ponad 111 tysi\u0119cy os\u00f3b \u2013 zabitych z premedytacj\u0105 przez sowieckich komunist\u00f3w. Bycie Polakiem w Zwi\u0105zku Radzieckim w tym czasie oznacza\u0142o wyrok \u015bmierci lub wieloletnie zes\u0142anie.\\r\\nKontynuacj\u0105 tej polityki by\u0142y zbrodnie pope\u0142niane ju\u017c po naje\u017adzie sowieckim na Polsk\u0119 (17 wrze\u015bnia 1939) \u2013 jak wymordowanie ponad 22 tysi\u0119cy polskich oficer\u00f3w i przedstawicieli elit m.in. w Katyniu, Charkowie, Twerze, Kijowie i Mi\u0144sku \u2013 a tak\u017ce w katowniach NKWD i \u0142agrach w najdalszych zak\u0105tkach sowieckiego imperium.\\r\\nNajwi\u0119kszymi ofiarami komunizmu byli obywatele Rosji. Historycy szacuj\u0105, \u017ce w samym tylko Zwi\u0105zku Sowieckim zamordowano 20 do 30 milion\u00f3w ludzi. \u015amier\u0107 i \u0142agry czeka\u0142y nawet na tych, kt\u00f3rych ka\u017cde cywilizowane pa\u0144stwo otacza opiek\u0105 \u2013 na powracaj\u0105cych z wojny je\u0144c\u00f3w. ZSRR nie traktowa\u0142 ich jak bohater\u00f3w wojennych, ale jak zdrajc\u00f3w. To by\u0142a \u201ewdzi\u0119czno\u015b\u0107\u201d Rosji sowieckiej dla je\u0144c\u00f3w-\u017co\u0142nierzy Armii Czerwonej: \u015bmier\u0107, \u0142agry, obozy koncentracyjne.\\r\\nZa wszystkie te zbrodnie odpowiadaj\u0105 komunistyczni przyw\u00f3dcy, na czele z J\u00f3zefem Stalinem. Podejmowane po 80 latach od wybuchu II Wojny \u015awiatowej pr\u00f3by rehabilitowania tej postaci dla politycznych cel\u00f3w dzisiejszego prezydenta Rosji musz\u0105 budzi\u0107 zdecydowany sprzeciw ka\u017cdego, kto ma cho\u0107 podstawow\u0105 wiedz\u0119 o historii XX wieku.\\r\\nPrezydent Putin wielokrotnie k\u0142ama\u0142 na temat Polski. Zawsze robi\u0142 to w pe\u0142ni \u015bwiadomie. Zwykle dzieje si\u0119 to w sytuacji, gdy w\u0142adza w Moskwie czuje mi\u0119dzynarodow\u0105 presj\u0119 zwi\u0105zan\u0105 ze swoimi dzia\u0142aniami. I to presj\u0119 nie na historycznej, a na jak najbardziej wsp\u00f3\u0142czesnej scenie geopolitycznej. W ostatnich tygodniach Rosja ponios\u0142a kilka istotnych pora\u017cek: niepowodzeniem zako\u0144czy\u0142a si\u0119 pr\u00f3ba ca\u0142kowitego podporz\u0105dkowania sobie Bia\u0142orusi, Unia Europejska po raz kolejny przed\u0142u\u017cy\u0142a sankcje na\u0142o\u017cone za bezprawn\u0105 aneksj\u0119 Krymu, a rozmowy w tzw. \u201eformacie normandzkim\u201d nie tylko nie przynios\u0142y zniesienia tych sankcji, lecz w tym samym czasie dosz\u0142o do kolejnych obostrze\u0144 \u2013 tym razem ameryka\u0144skich \u2013 kt\u00f3re znacznie utrudniaj\u0105 realizacj\u0119 projektu Nord Stream 2. Jednocze\u015bnie rosyjscy sportowcy zostali w\u0142a\u015bnie zawieszeni na cztery lata za stosowanie dopingu.\\r\\nS\u0142owa Prezydenta Putina traktuj\u0119 jako pr\u00f3b\u0119 ukrycia tych problem\u00f3w. Rosyjski przyw\u00f3dca doskonale zdaje sobie spraw\u0119, \u017ce jego zarzuty nie maj\u0105 nic wsp\u00f3lnego z rzeczywisto\u015bci\u0105 \u2013 i \u017ce w Polsce nie ma pomnik\u00f3w Hitlera ani Stalina. Takie pomniki by\u0142y na naszej ziemi wy\u0142\u0105cznie wtedy, gdy stawiali je agresorzy i zbrodniarze \u2013 III Rzesza hitlerowska i Rosja sowiecka.\\r\\nNar\u00f3d rosyjski \u2013 najwi\u0119ksza ofiara Stalina, jednego z najokrutniejszych zbrodniarzy w historii \u015bwiata \u2013 zas\u0142uguje na prawd\u0119. G\u0142\u0119boko wierz\u0119 w to, \u017ce nar\u00f3d rosyjski jest narodem ludzi wolnych \u2013 i \u017ce odrzuca stalinizm, nawet gdy w\u0142adza prezydenta Putina stara si\u0119 go zrehabilitowa\u0107.\\r\\nNie ma zgody na zamian\u0119 kat\u00f3w z ofiarami, sprawc\u00f3w okrutnych zbrodni z niewinn\u0105 ludno\u015bci\u0105 i napadni\u0119tymi pa\u0144stwami. 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The death toll of Nazism, fascism and communism is obvious for people of our generation. It is also obvious who is responsible for those crimes and whose pact started World War II \u2013 the most murderous conflict in the history of humankind.\r\nUnfortunately, the more time passes since these tragic events, the less our children and grandchildren know about them. That is why it is so important that we continue to speak the truth about World War II, its perpetrators and its victims, and to object to any attempts at distorting history.\r\nFor Poland \u2013 the war\u2019s first victim \u2013 the memory of this evil is particularly salient. Our country was the first to experience the armed aggression of both Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia, and the first that fought in the defense of a free Europe.\r\nHowever, resistance against these evil powers is a testament not only to Polish heroism \u2013 it is something vastly more important. This resistance is the legacy of the now free and democratic Europe that fought against two totalitarian regimes. Today, when certain individuals wish to trample the memory of these events in the name of their own political goals, Poland must stand up for the truth \u2013 not for its own interests, but for the sake of what defines Europe.\r\nSigned on August 23, 1939, the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact was not a \u201cnon-aggression pact\u201d \u2013 it was a political and military alliance, dividing Europe into two spheres of influence along the boundary formed by three Polish rivers: the Narew, Vistula, and San. A month later, the dividing line was moved to the Bug river as a result of the \u201cGerman-Soviet Boundary and Friendship Treaty\u201d of\u00a0 September 28, 1939. It served as a prologue to the unspeakable crimes that were committed on both sides of the line over the course of the following years.\r\nThe pact between Hitler and Stalin was immediately put into effect \u2013 on September 1, 1939, Nazi Germany invaded Poland from the west, south and north, and on September 17, 1939, the USSR joined the assault, attacking Poland from the east.\r\nOn September 22, 1939, a large military parade was held in Brest-Litovsk \u2013 a celebration of Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia\u2019s joint defeat of independent Poland. Such parades are not organized by parties bound to a non-aggression pact \u2013 they are organized by allies and friends.\r\nAnd this is exactly what Hitler and Stalin were \u2013 for a long time, they were not only allies, but, in fact, friends. Their friendship flourished so much that when a group of 150 German communists fled the Third Reich to the USSR before World War II broke out, Stalin handed them over to Hitler as \u201ca gift\u201d in November of 1939, thus condemning them to a certain death.\r\nThe USSR and the Third Reich cooperated closely with each other throughout the entire war. During a conference held in Brest on November 27, 1939, representatives of both countries\u2019 security services discussed the methods and principles of cooperation used to fight Polish independence organizations on occupied territories. Other conferences organized by NKVD and SS officers on the matter of cooperation were held inter alia in Zakopane and Krakow in March of 1940. These were not talks on non-aggression, but on liquidating (that is, murdering) people, Polish citizens, and on joint, allied action to bring about a total destruction of Poland.\r\nWithout Stalin\u2019s complicity in the partitioning of Poland, and without the natural resources that Stalin supplied to Hitler, the Nazi German crime machine would not have taken control of Europe. The last trains loaded with supplies left the USSR and headed for Germany on June 21, 1941 \u2013 just one day before Nazi Germany attacked its ally. Thanks to Stalin, Hitler could conquer new countries with impunity, imprison Jews from all over the continent in ghettos, and prepare the Holocaust \u2013 one of the worst crimes in the history of humankind.\r\nStalin engaged in criminal activities in the east, subduing one country after another and developing a network of camps that Alexander Solzhenitsyn, a Russian, called, \u201cthe Gulag Archipelago.\u201d These were camps in which millions of opponents of the communist authorities were mercilessly exterminated through murderous torture.\r\nThe crimes of the communist regime started even before the outbreak of World War II \u2013 the starvation of millions of Russians at the beginning of the 1920s; the Great Famine, which led to the deaths of millions of inhabitants of Ukraine and Kazakhstan; the Great Purge, during which nearly 700,000 political opponents and ordinary citizens of the USSR, mostly Russians, were murdered; and the NKVD\u2019s so-called \u201cPolish Operation,\u201d in which, primarily, USSR citizens of Polish descent were shot to death. Children, women and men were all destined to die. According to NKVD data, over 111,000 people were deliberately shot to death by Soviet communists during the \u201cPolish Operation\u201d alone.\u00a0Being a Pole in the USSR at that time meant a death sentence or many years of exile.\r\nThis policy continued through crimes committed after the Soviet Union invaded Poland on September 17, 1939 \u2013 the crime of\u00a0murdering over 22,000 Polish officers and representatives of the elite in places such as Katyn, Kharkiv, Tver, Kyiv, and Minsk; the crimes committed in NKVD torture cells and in forced labor camps in the most remote parts of the Soviet empire.\r\nThe greatest victims of communism were Russian citizens. Historians estimate that between 20 and 30 million people were killed in the USSR alone. Death and forced labor camps awaited even those for whom every civilized country provides necessary care \u2013 prisoners of war who returned to their homeland. The USSR did not treat them as war heroes, but as traitors. Soviet Russia\u2019s \u201cgratitude\u201d for prisoners of war, the soldiers of the Red Army, was death and imprisonment in forced labor camps and concentration camps.\r\nCommunist leaders, especially Joseph Stalin, are responsible for all of these crimes. Eighty years after World War II started, attempts are made by today\u2019s President of Russia to redeem Stalin for political goals. These attempts must be met with strong opposition from every person who has basic knowledge on the history of the 20th century.\r\nPresident Putin has lied about Poland on numerous occasions, and he has always done so deliberately. Such slander usually occurs when Russian authorities are pressured by the international community for their actions, and that pressure is exerted not with regards to the historical geopolitical scene, but with regards to\u00a0the contemporary one, instead. In recent weeks, Russia has suffered several significant defeats \u2013 it failed in its attempt to take complete control over Belarus, and the EU has once again prolonged sanctions imposed on it for the illegal annexation of Crimea. The so-called \u201cNormandy Format\u201d talks did not result in the lifting of these sanctions, and further restrictions were\u00a0simultaneously\u00a0introduced, this time by the U.S., significantly hindering the implementation of the Nord Stream 2 project. At the same time, Russian athletes have just been suspended for four years for doping-related incidents.\r\nI consider President Putin\u2019s words as an attempt to cover up these problems. The Russian leader is well aware that his accusations have nothing to do with reality, and that there are no monuments of Hitler or Stalin in Poland. Such monuments stood on our soil only when they were erected by the aggressors and perpetrators \u2013 the Third Reich and Soviet Russia.\r\nThe Russian people \u2013 the greatest victim of Stalin, who was one of the cruelest criminals in the history of the world \u2013 deserve the truth. I believe that Russians are a nation of free people, and that they reject Stalinism, even when President Putin\u2019s government is trying to rehabilitate it.\r\nWe cannot accept turning perpetrators and those responsible for committing cruel crimes against both innocent people and invaded countries into victims. Together \u2013 in the name of those who perished and for the good of our common future \u2013 we must preserve the truth.\r\n\u00a0\r\nO\u015bwiadczenie Premiera Mateusza Morawieckiego\r\nXX wiek przyni\u00f3s\u0142 \u015bwiatu niewyobra\u017calne cierpienie i \u015bmier\u0107 setek milion\u00f3w ludzi \u2013 zamordowanych w imi\u0119 chorych, totalitarnych ideologii. \u015amiertelne \u017cniwo nazizmu, faszyzmu i komunizmu jest oczywisto\u015bci\u0105 dla ludzi naszego pokolenia. Oczywisto\u015bci\u0105 jest tak\u017ce to, kto za te zbrodnie odpowiada \u2013 i czyj sojusz rozpocz\u0105\u0142 II Wojn\u0119 \u015awiatow\u0105, najbardziej morderczy konflikt w dziejach ludzko\u015bci.\r\nNiestety, im wi\u0119cej czasu up\u0142ywa od tych tragicznych wydarze\u0144, tym mniej wiedz\u0105 o nich nasze dzieci i wnuki. Dlatego tak wa\u017cne jest, by\u015bmy nadal g\u0142o\u015bno m\u00f3wili prawd\u0119 o II Wojnie \u015awiatowej, o jej sprawcach i ofiarach \u2013 i sprzeciwiali si\u0119 wszelkim pr\u00f3bom zak\u0142amywania historii.\r\nPami\u0119\u0107 o tym z\u0142u jest szczeg\u00f3lnie istotna dla Polski \u2013 pierwszej ofiary wojny. Nasz kraj najwcze\u015bniej do\u015bwiadczy\u0142 zbrojnej agresji hitlerowskich Niemiec i sowieckiej Rosji. To w\u0142a\u015bnie Polska by\u0142a pierwszym pa\u0144stwem, kt\u00f3re walczy\u0142o w obronie wolnej Europy.\r\nOp\u00f3r wobec tych pot\u0119g z\u0142a nie stanowi jednak wy\u0142\u0105cznie wspomnienia polskiego bohaterstwa \u2013 to co\u015b znacznie wa\u017cniejszego. Ten op\u00f3r to dziedzictwo ca\u0142ej wolnej i demokratycznej dzi\u015b Europy, kt\u00f3ra stan\u0119\u0142a do walki przeciwko dw\u00f3m totalitaryzmom. Dzisiaj, gdy niekt\u00f3rzy dla swoich politycznych cel\u00f3w chc\u0105 podepta\u0107 pami\u0119\u0107 o tych wydarzeniach, Polska musi stan\u0105\u0107 w obronie prawdy. Nie w imi\u0119 swojego interesu, lecz w imi\u0119 tego, czym jest Europa.\r\nPodpisany 23 sierpnia 1939 roku Pakt Ribbentrop-Mo\u0142otow nie by\u0142 \u201epaktem o nieagresji\u201d. By\u0142 sojuszem politycznym i wojskowym, dziel\u0105cym Europ\u0119 na dwie strefy wp\u0142yw\u00f3w \u2013 na linii trzech polskich rzek: Narwi, Wis\u0142y i Sanu, przesuni\u0119tej miesi\u0105c p\u00f3\u017aniej na lini\u0119 Bugu, w wyniku zawartego 28 wrze\u015bnia \u201eTraktatu o granicach i przyja\u017ani mi\u0119dzy III Rzesz\u0105 a ZSRR\u201d. By\u0142 prologiem do niewyobra\u017calnych zbrodni, jakie w ci\u0105gu nast\u0119pnych kilku lat mia\u0142y zosta\u0107 pope\u0142nione po obu stronach tej linii.\r\nSojusz Hitlera i Stalina zosta\u0142 b\u0142yskawicznie wcielony w \u017cycie: 1 wrze\u015bnia 1939 roku hitlerowskie Niemcy uderzy\u0142y na Polsk\u0119 z zachodu, po\u0142udnia i p\u00f3\u0142nocy, a 17 wrze\u015bnia ZSRR zrobi\u0142 to samo, atakuj\u0105c ze wschodu.\r\n22 wrze\u015bnia w Brze\u015bciu nad Bugiem odby\u0142a si\u0119 wielka defilada \u2013 \u015bwi\u0119towanie wsp\u00f3lnego zwyci\u0119stwa hitlerowskich Niemiec i sowieckiej Rosji nad niepodleg\u0142\u0105 Polsk\u0105. Takich defilad nie urz\u0105dzaj\u0105 strony pakt\u00f3w o nieagresji \u2013 robi\u0105 to sojusznicy i przyjaciele.\r\nTak w\u0142a\u015bnie by\u0142o z Hitlerem i Stalinem \u2013 d\u0142ugo byli nie tylko sojusznikami, ale wr\u0119cz przyjaci\u00f3\u0142mi. Ta przyja\u017a\u0144 kwit\u0142a do tego stopnia, \u017ce gdy grupa 150 niemieckich komunist\u00f3w jeszcze przed wybuchem wojny uciek\u0142a z III Rzeszy do ZSRR, w listopadzie 1939 roku Stalin przekaza\u0142 ich Hitlerowi niejako \u201ew prezencie\u201d \u2013 wydaj\u0105c ich na pewn\u0105 \u015bmier\u0107.\r\nZSRR i III Rzesza przez ca\u0142y czas \u015bci\u015ble ze sob\u0105 wsp\u00f3\u0142pracowa\u0142y. Na konferencji w Brze\u015bciu 27 listopada 1939 roku, przedstawiciele s\u0142u\u017cb bezpiecze\u0144stwa obu pa\u0144stw omawiali metody i zasady wsp\u00f3\u0142pracy przy zwalczaniu polskich organizacji niepodleg\u0142o\u015bciowych na okupowanych terenach. Nast\u0119pne konferencje pomi\u0119dzy funkcjonariuszami NKWD i SS na temat ich wsp\u00f3\u0142pracy odbywa\u0142y si\u0119 m.in. w Zakopanem oraz w Krakowie (w marcu 1940). To nie by\u0142y rozmowy o nieagresji \u2013 ale o likwidowaniu (czytaj: mordowaniu) ludzi, obywateli Rzeczpospolitej oraz o wsp\u00f3lnych, sojuszniczych dzia\u0142aniach w celu ca\u0142kowitego zniszczenia Polski.\r\nBez wsp\u00f3\u0142udzia\u0142u Stalina w rozbiorze Polski i bez surowc\u00f3w naturalnych, kt\u00f3re Stalin dostarcza\u0142 Hitlerowi, niemiecka machina zbrodni nie opanowa\u0142aby Europy. Ostatnie poci\u0105gi z dostawami jecha\u0142y z ZSRR do Niemiec 21 czerwca 1941 roku \u2013 na dzie\u0144 przed tym, gdy Niemcy hitlerowskie zaatakowa\u0142y dotychczasowego sojusznika. Dzi\u0119ki Stalinowi Hitler m\u00f3g\u0142 bezkarnie podbija\u0107 kolejne kraje, zamyka\u0107 \u017byd\u00f3w z ca\u0142ego kontynentu w gettach i przygotowywa\u0107 Holokaust \u2013 jedn\u0105 z najwi\u0119kszych zbrodni w historii ludzko\u015bci.\r\nStalin prowadzi\u0142 zbrodnicze dzia\u0142ania na wschodzie, podporz\u0105dkowuj\u0105c sobie jeden kraj po drugim i rozwijaj\u0105c struktur\u0119 oboz\u00f3w, kt\u00f3re Rosjanin Aleksander So\u0142\u017cenicyn nazwa\u0142 \u201eArchipelagiem Gu\u0142ag\u201d. Oboz\u00f3w, w kt\u00f3rych miliony ludzi, przeciwnik\u00f3w w\u0142adzy komunistycznej wyniszczane by\u0142y niewolnicz\u0105, mordercz\u0105 katorg\u0105.\r\nZbrodnie komunizmu zacz\u0119\u0142y si\u0119 jeszcze przed II wojn\u0105 \u015bwiatow\u0105 \u2013 od \u015bmierci g\u0142odowej milion\u00f3w Rosjan na pocz\u0105tku lat dwudziestych, od\u00a0 Wielkiego G\u0142odu, w wyniku kt\u00f3rego \u015bmier\u0107 ponios\u0142o wiele milion\u00f3w mieszka\u0144c\u00f3w Ukrainy i Kazachstanu, przez Wielk\u0105 Czystk\u0119, w ramach kt\u00f3rej zamordowano blisko 700 tysi\u0119cy przeciwnik\u00f3w politycznych i zwyk\u0142ych obywateli ZSRR, najcz\u0119\u015bciej Rosjan, tak\u017ce w tzw. \u201eOperacji Polskiej\u201d NKWD, w kt\u00f3rej rozstrzeliwano przede wszystkim obywateli ZSRR polskiego pochodzenia. Na \u015bmier\u0107 przeznaczono dzieci, kobiety, m\u0119\u017cczyzn. W samej tylko \u201eOperacji Polskiej\u201d wed\u0142ug danych NKWD rozstrzelano ponad 111 tysi\u0119cy os\u00f3b \u2013 zabitych z premedytacj\u0105 przez sowieckich komunist\u00f3w. Bycie Polakiem w Zwi\u0105zku Radzieckim w tym czasie oznacza\u0142o wyrok \u015bmierci lub wieloletnie zes\u0142anie.\r\nKontynuacj\u0105 tej polityki by\u0142y zbrodnie pope\u0142niane ju\u017c po naje\u017adzie sowieckim na Polsk\u0119 (17 wrze\u015bnia 1939) \u2013 jak wymordowanie ponad 22 tysi\u0119cy polskich oficer\u00f3w i przedstawicieli elit m.in. w Katyniu, Charkowie, Twerze, Kijowie i Mi\u0144sku \u2013 a tak\u017ce w katowniach NKWD i \u0142agrach w najdalszych zak\u0105tkach sowieckiego imperium.\r\nNajwi\u0119kszymi ofiarami komunizmu byli obywatele Rosji. Historycy szacuj\u0105, \u017ce w samym tylko Zwi\u0105zku Sowieckim zamordowano 20 do 30 milion\u00f3w ludzi. \u015amier\u0107 i \u0142agry czeka\u0142y nawet na tych, kt\u00f3rych ka\u017cde cywilizowane pa\u0144stwo otacza opiek\u0105 \u2013 na powracaj\u0105cych z wojny je\u0144c\u00f3w. ZSRR nie traktowa\u0142 ich jak bohater\u00f3w wojennych, ale jak zdrajc\u00f3w. To by\u0142a \u201ewdzi\u0119czno\u015b\u0107\u201d Rosji sowieckiej dla je\u0144c\u00f3w-\u017co\u0142nierzy Armii Czerwonej: \u015bmier\u0107, \u0142agry, obozy koncentracyjne.\r\nZa wszystkie te zbrodnie odpowiadaj\u0105 komunistyczni przyw\u00f3dcy, na czele z J\u00f3zefem Stalinem. Podejmowane po 80 latach od wybuchu II Wojny \u015awiatowej pr\u00f3by rehabilitowania tej postaci dla politycznych cel\u00f3w dzisiejszego prezydenta Rosji musz\u0105 budzi\u0107 zdecydowany sprzeciw ka\u017cdego, kto ma cho\u0107 podstawow\u0105 wiedz\u0119 o historii XX wieku.\r\nPrezydent Putin wielokrotnie k\u0142ama\u0142 na temat Polski. Zawsze robi\u0142 to w pe\u0142ni \u015bwiadomie. Zwykle dzieje si\u0119 to w sytuacji, gdy w\u0142adza w Moskwie czuje mi\u0119dzynarodow\u0105 presj\u0119 zwi\u0105zan\u0105 ze swoimi dzia\u0142aniami. I to presj\u0119 nie na historycznej, a na jak najbardziej wsp\u00f3\u0142czesnej scenie geopolitycznej. W ostatnich tygodniach Rosja ponios\u0142a kilka istotnych pora\u017cek: niepowodzeniem zako\u0144czy\u0142a si\u0119 pr\u00f3ba ca\u0142kowitego podporz\u0105dkowania sobie Bia\u0142orusi, Unia Europejska po raz kolejny przed\u0142u\u017cy\u0142a sankcje na\u0142o\u017cone za bezprawn\u0105 aneksj\u0119 Krymu, a rozmowy w tzw. \u201eformacie normandzkim\u201d nie tylko nie przynios\u0142y zniesienia tych sankcji, lecz w tym samym czasie dosz\u0142o do kolejnych obostrze\u0144 \u2013 tym razem ameryka\u0144skich \u2013 kt\u00f3re znacznie utrudniaj\u0105 realizacj\u0119 projektu Nord Stream 2. Jednocze\u015bnie rosyjscy sportowcy zostali w\u0142a\u015bnie zawieszeni na cztery lata za stosowanie dopingu.\r\nS\u0142owa Prezydenta Putina traktuj\u0119 jako pr\u00f3b\u0119 ukrycia tych problem\u00f3w. Rosyjski przyw\u00f3dca doskonale zdaje sobie spraw\u0119, \u017ce jego zarzuty nie maj\u0105 nic wsp\u00f3lnego z rzeczywisto\u015bci\u0105 \u2013 i \u017ce w Polsce nie ma pomnik\u00f3w Hitlera ani Stalina. Takie pomniki by\u0142y na naszej ziemi wy\u0142\u0105cznie wtedy, gdy stawiali je agresorzy i zbrodniarze \u2013 III Rzesza hitlerowska i Rosja sowiecka.\r\nNar\u00f3d rosyjski \u2013 najwi\u0119ksza ofiara Stalina, jednego z najokrutniejszych zbrodniarzy w historii \u015bwiata \u2013 zas\u0142uguje na prawd\u0119. G\u0142\u0119boko wierz\u0119 w to, \u017ce nar\u00f3d rosyjski jest narodem ludzi wolnych \u2013 i \u017ce odrzuca stalinizm, nawet gdy w\u0142adza prezydenta Putina stara si\u0119 go zrehabilitowa\u0107.\r\nNie ma zgody na zamian\u0119 kat\u00f3w z ofiarami, sprawc\u00f3w okrutnych zbrodni z niewinn\u0105 ludno\u015bci\u0105 i napadni\u0119tymi pa\u0144stwami. 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