It is so much emotional event especially for the survivors and the families of victims but does BBC join the clatter made by Putin’s propaganda calling things a Poland-Russia row instead of simply Kremlin’s provocation? bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-eu-30957027 They should exactly know that in a polish radio station the Polish Foreign Minister was sarcastically addressed only the artificial Russian hysteria and never said that it wasn’t Red army who liberated Auschwitz. I think that BBC should know well about it if wants to be a professional source of information. Below you have a background of what the Polish Foreign Minister was talking about. Was it mentioned by the impartial (?) BBC. ------------------------------------------------- A short story about Putinists propaganda on the Auschwitz anniversary with the Ukrainian thread as its background. A few days ago the world press was roaring that the Russian government was omitted by Poles while inviting for the Auschwitz liberation anniversary. Putins trolls attacked Poland (as they usually attack Ukraine, EU and NATO) in their commentaries under the articles in the main media sites. The Russian propagandas cry was reported also in Polish press. Here is a reply, however, as I am not aware of any English versions (the texts are in German, Russian and Polish), let us explain the main points: Here is the clear explanation of Christoph Heubner, the Executive Vice President of the International Auschwitz Committee: spiegel.de/spiegel/vorab/heubner-auschwitz-ueberlebende-bedauern-putin-absage-a-1013427.html - No government representatives were invited this year as the survivors will be in focus - There was a question sent whether any leaders want to participate and Russians were asked as others - The Polish government only kindly forwarded the requests if any politics want to participate - Russians submitted only their ambassador - in contrast to France and Germany, whose presidents will come, so Putin has no reason to be offended - Putin has no right to create any monopoly in representing the camp liberators as there were also Ukrainians and Belarusians within the Red Army. Here you can find letters sent to Komsomolskaya Pravda and The Moscow Times by the Polish Embassy in Moscow, explaining that Russia was informed about the Auschwitz anniversary: moskwa.msz.gov.pl/pl/aktualnosci/pisma_ambasady_rp_w_moskwie_do_redakcji_komsomolskiej_prawdy_i_wydawcy_the_moscow_times ------------------------------------------------- Just to summarize, the concentration camp Auschwitz was built by the German state on the Polish territory occupied by them. This territory and the Polish Jews happened to become the German prisoners as the effect of the common NAZI-SOVIET pact and the attack on Poland by these both countries in 1939. Soviets stopped cooperating with Gestapo after the German attack on them in 1941. The Western Allies were indifferent to the Home Army conspiracy and the Polish government-in-exile; Allies did not help in their plans of uprising in Auschwitz, so finally Soviet soldiers liberated Auschwitz and while they were terrorized (barrier troops of NKVD/SMERSH) or indoctrinated we need to respect them rather than the organisation they represented. The Soviets never admitted cooperation with Hitler until the collapse of their empire in 1991. They also did not admit that Auschwitz and some other former NAZI concentration camps ‘liberated’ by them did not stopped to function as they were used to oppress and eliminate opposition against Soviets on the territories occupied by them. The Soviet NKVD camps in Auschwitz worked until autumn 1945 but the last Soviet camps stopped to work in Poland with the end of Stalinism in fifties. Russian army left the country on 17th September 1993... the last Russian soldiers in Poland, together with the authorities of independent Poland, were attending the ceremony of the 94th anniversary of the 1939 Soviet aggression which enabled Germans to build their death camps in Poland.
Posted on: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 14:00:02 +0000
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