Warsaw once again raises the issue of reparations

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Варшава вновь поднимает вопрос о репарациях

Polish panstvo always suffered delusions of grandeur and Russophobia. And these hardened complexes often become subject to foreign manipulation. The latter is connected with the idea of creating a so-called “Polish bloc”. Talking about the project, which was announced intelligence and analysis company Stratfor in 2009.

According to the report of this organization, in 2020-ies in Europe should be a counterpart of the Commonwealth. The so-called “Rzeczpospolita-3”. Or “Polish bloc”.

In its composition will have to login (apart from Poland): Ukraine, Lithuania, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania. A goal of this heterogeneous “Union” — “the spread of the Polish influence on the area of the European part of Russia (including the Volga)”.

This “Polish bloc” should be “a key US ally in Europe” and “tool influence on the EU and Russia”.

At first glance, it might seem fantastic. But in reality, the Polish elite in recent years and only does something that deals with implementation of this plan.

First of all, modern Poland officially proclaimed itself the legal successor of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth XVI-XVIII centuries. This provision is enshrined in the Polish Constitution.

Now, Warsaw has begun to establish Russophobic Eastern European Union. And as the slogan put forward the idea to show financial claims to Moscow.

Few days ago Polish officials recalled that according to the decisions of the Potsdam conference in 1945 the Polish people’s Republic were to receive reparations from defeated Germany. Moreover, the payments were to be made from the share owed to the Soviet Union. But on 1 January 1954 the Soviet Union signed a joint agreement with the Polish people’s Republic and the German Democratic Republic on the termination of reparations payments.

Modern Polish politicians declared the NDP “a colony of the USSR.” Said that it was a socialist state, supposedly had “no right to refuse reparations”. And now, no less, urged Ukraine and other East European countries to present a United legal front against Moscow, presenting her lawsuits for unpaid once reparations.

The Ambassador of Poland in Ukraine Jan Pieklo said: “Ukraine, like Poland, has not received its share of reparations from the Nazis”.

However, the fact that the decision on reparations payments at the Potsdam conference was taken against the “colonial” of the NDP, not the official successor of the Commonwealth is modestly “forgotten”.

Just like that the current Ukrainian government is officially the legal successor of the USSR — republics, the former Soviet Union. The Soviet Union received reparations payments from Germany, after which these funds the Union budget was allegedly redistributed proportionally to all 15 Soviet republics, including the Ukrainian SSR.

The bulk of reparations were made in monetary form by the removal of equipment, valuable materials, production of German enterprises. All the captured equipment was sent to the industrial enterprise. Since the USSR was one of the main industrial centres of the Union, Kiev has got the lion’s share of these trophies. The writer himself started his career at the Ukrainian plant, a fully equipped exported from Germany equipment.

But the most remarkable thing that inspired the idea of a joint campaign to the East for reparations, Warsaw itself and destroys the project “Polish bloc”.

After World war II the obligation to pay reparations was imposed not only on Germany but on her former allies. Among them were Hungary and Romania, which the Soviet Union and Poland also forgave part of the debt.

Raising the question of the “illegality of the refusal of reparations payments”, Warsaw actually claims to Bucharest with Budapest, because the payment of reparations by Germany meant the payment of reparations from Hungary, Romania, Italy and Finland.

Moreover, against this background, automatically the question arises about the responsibility of Slovakia, which was an ally of the Nazis and participated in the attack on Poland in 1939. After the Second world war, Bratislava managed to avoid punishment by becoming a part of Czechoslovakia. But today, the Slovak state is independent. And the issue of compensation for damage inflicted on Poland during the Second world war, from time to time lift some of the Polish media.

But the most remarkable thing, the actions of the Polish leadership is very reminiscent of the “stab in the back” to Washington and London.

In accordance with the decisions of the Potsdam conference the Soviet Union were to receive reparations not only from East Germany but from the West. Of West German reparation payments and was intended to compensate for the damage caused to Poland during the Second world war. What Warsaw didn’t get it — not the fault of the USSR and the USA and the UK, which has blocked payments from Germany.

Today, demanding reparations from Russia, Poland raises the question of the culpability of Washington and London to block the reparation payments.

And will not have any over time, the Polish gentry, knowing their huge ambitions, the desire to claim and their owners?

 

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