Polish foreign minister at the UN: we need truth in talking about the end of WWII

Poland’s foreign minister Adam Rotfeld has addressed the UN General Assembly session in tribute to the victims of World War Two. He called for revealing the whole truth about the 1939 Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. He recalled the losses which Poland suffered during and in the aftermath of World War Two and stressed that the end of the war meant a significant loss of sovereignty for Poland. Rotfeld told the UN General Assembly that Poland wants to shape good relations with all its neighbours on the basis of historical truth..

You know, yhey can stick those reparations up their a...s.

I would just like them to stop praising glory of the former Soviet Union and spreading lies about history.

Like today - Katyn massacre is not a genocide according to Russian authorities, because Polish officers were shot to dead allegedly not as Poles, but as political opponents.
But what's really "funny" - according to them - it's not a war crime eiter, because ... Poland and Soviet union at that time formally were not at war (Soviet just invaded Poland, without declaring war).

As to Yalta - according to latest statements by Russian MFA - Poland should be grateful for the results of that conference, because the Allies contributed there to building independent, strong and democratic Poland after WW2.

As to the falling of the Soviet Union - according to Putin - it was the greatest geopolitical catastrophy of the century and real tragedy for the Russian people.

As to the Baltics - according to the Russians - those countries were not annexed nor occupied by the Soviet Union. They just voluntarily joined it. Just desired to become Soviet republics.

In today's speech given by Putin at the Red Square in Moscow he said that always remembered will be American, British and French (!!!) contribution in victory over Nazi Germany. Even German and Italian antifascist resistance will be always remembered by Mr Putin. But not the sacrifice of Poland, which had the fourth biggest army among Allied forces (after Soviet, American and British), fought against Germany from the very beginning till the end on every European and African front of the war.

As to beginning of the war - according to the Russians (as I saw it today on TV) - it started in 1941. Sure it did to them, because until that time Soviets were NAZI'S ALLY.

Any further comment needed? Don't think so.

You're so right - Stalin was so delighted to carve up Poland with Hitler in 1939, and to gobble up the Baltic States and some of Finland, too. Before Hitler really got up to speed with massacres, invasions, and genocide it was difficult for most people in western Europe to feel more relaxed about Stalin than about Hitler, for both were depraved genocidal tyrants seeking to dominate Europe if not the entire world. Only Hitler's monumental miscalculation of invading the USSR allowed either Stalin or the free world to seek an alliance together. There had been some tentative feelers in the spring of 1939, as a "stop Hitler" measure, but the leaders of France and Britain could not bring themselves to alliance with a loathsome pig like Stalin. One can certainly fault their foresight, since they really needed to stop Hitler at almost any cost, but it certainly was difficult for any decent person in the west to contemplate an alliance with the USSR before the full spectacle of Hitler's evil was undeniable to all.

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