WARSAW, July 21 The Russian Ambassador to Poland will be summoned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic because of the words of Russian President Vladimir Putin about the role of the Soviet Union and Joseph Stalin and in the restoration of Polish statehood, said Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki on Twitter.
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» Stalin was a war criminal responsible for the death of hundreds of thousands of Poles. Historical truth is not discussed. The Ambassador of the Russian Federation will be summoned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs,» wrote Morawiecki.
President Putin, at a meeting with the permanent members of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, recalled that Poland in 1939 was thrown by the Western allies to «devour» the German military machine and actually lost its independence and statehood, which was restored to a large extent thanks to the Soviet Union. According to him, thanks to the Soviet Union, thanks to the position of Stalin, Poland received significant lands in the West, the lands of Germany. The western territories of present-day Poland are Stalin's gift to the Poles, Putin pointed out.
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