„Wojna o pamięć trwa”. Davies broni Polski
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– W wojnie o pamięć niewiele rzeczy można porównać ze skalą i determinacji zmasowanej ofensywy propagandowej, którą Moskwa rozpętała w przededniu spodziewanego wyjazdu premiera Władimira Putina do Polski – pisze Norman Davies w „The Independent”. Tak brytyjski historyk odpowiada na rosyjskie publikacje na temat paktowania Polaków z Hitlerem, które nazywa „szokującymi”….
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We must not forget the real causes of the war
The Independent Saturday, 29 August 2009
It was Hitler’s invasion of Poland that set off the Second World War war, argues Norman Davies, one of our leading historians. But their suffering and Russia’s part in their fate afterwards still goes unrecognised..
Revelations, each more shocking than the next, are growing to a crescendo. Russia’s President, Dmitry Medvedev, has formed a commission for historical truth. One of its first members to speak out, Professor Natalia Narochnitskaya, chose last week to reject the well-documented admissions by Presidents Gorbachev and Yeltsin about the Katyn massacres of 1940, when Stalin’s security forces murdered 25,000 Polish officer-prisoners in cold blood. Instead, she threw up a fabricated tale about 100,000 Russian POWs had been murdered by the Poles in 1920. Attack, it appears, is the best form of defence.
The Novosti press agency chimed in. It announced the publication of a collection of documents on Soviet-German relations, whose full contents will be unveiled on 31 August. It has been joined in the chorus by ambassadors, academicians and assorted commentators, all singing from the same sheet. The Soviet Union must not be blamed for the crisis of 1939. The Poles were „Hitler’s first ally” (despite being the first ally of Great Britain). And the Western powers, by their duplicity and complacency, were happy to connive in Hitler’s lust for war.
One of the clearest statements of Russia’s apparently official line appeared on the website of the Ministry of Defence. Sergei Kovalev, from the Institute of Military History in Moscow, submitted a text entitled „Falsifications and inventions in interpretations of the Soviet Union’s role…”. His analysis offers the opinion that Hitler’s demands on Poland in 1939 were „moderate” and „justified”, and hence that responsibility for the war must be laid at Poland’s door. His style, complaining about the „falsifications and inventions” of others, is highly reminiscent of Soviet times. But his logic is not. No one in Soviet Moscow would have dreamt of describing Adolf Hitler’s policies as „moderate”.
The newspaper Pravda (which means truth) went one better. An article written under the name of Lisa Karpova states that Poland from 1926 was a fascist state like Mussolini’s Italy. Poland attacked all its neighbours in turn. And Jews in Poland were able to survive only thanks to the concentration camps. Polish agents organised a bandit attack on a German convoy carrying an Enigma machine. So, Karpova concludes, the cause of the Second World War lay in „a Polish intrigue supported by the British”.
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