Poland accuses Russia of rewriting history of World War II
The Polish Institute of National Remembrance (IPN) believes that documents on the Red Army's liberation of the Polish territory, which have been made publicly available by the Russian Defense Ministry, falsify history.
According to Polish researchers, information from the archive was given as proof that the Poles considered the Soviet soldiers to exclusively be liberators. An exemplary phrase is quoted: "In the summer of 1944, the troops of the First Byelorussian Front in the Brest area came to the border of the Soviet Union. The liberation of Poland from the German-fascist occupation began. "
However, Warsaw sees bias, and claims the fact that the Red Army crossed the pre-war borders of Poland back in January 1944; in fact, IPN considers them to have been critical at that time.
In addition, the documents allegedly contradict the Polish view that the Red Army brought the inhabitants of the country not liberation, but a new enslavement.
"From that moment the 'liberation' of Poland began, the symbol of which was the inglorious events in Vilnius," the institute said, citing data that Soviet troops and the NKVD surrounded and disarmed about 8,000 soldiers of Armia Krajowa (Home Army) who participated in the battle for the city. The soldiers were then taken to Kaluga, and Home Army officers were arrested and sent to camps in the USSR.
Last week, the Russian military office declassified irreplaceable archival documents on the liberation of Poland from Nazism.