Russian State Duma Building MOSCOW, Mar 26Commenting on the words of one of the former leaders of the Polish army, Waldemar Skrzypchka, about «occupied Kaliningrad», Dmitry Sablin, deputy head of the Duma Committee on Defense, noted that it is better for Warsaw to think about those territories that were transferred to it by the USSR after World War II, and not about the Russian city. Earlier, the former commander of the Polish ground forces, General Waldemar Skrzypczak, in an interview with Super Express, said that Poland should raise the issue of belonging to the Kaliningrad region, which has been «occupied by Russia» since 1945.
Zakharova sharply responded to the Polish general, who spoke out about Kaliningrad «(Former British Prime Minister Winston) Churchill did not call Poland the hyena of Europe in vain. In the same way, in 1938, the Poles grabbed a piece of Czechoslovakia from behind the backs of large predators. They hope to repeat it. I think, Polish politicians should take a good look at the country’s map of the territory that the then fraternal Poland was generously slaughtered by the Soviet Union, and worry about them, and not about our Kaliningrad,” Sablin told RIA Novosti. Earlier in Russia, the Polish military was advised to better learn the history of his country, and the official Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, in response to the idea to raise the issue of Kaliningrad in Poland, replied that she would “both raise it and lower it.” The modern Kaliningrad region is located on the territory of the former German province of East Prussia. In 1945, the battles of the East Prussian operation of the Soviet troops took place here. After the end of World War II, by decision of the Potsdam Conference, part of East Prussia (about a third) was ceded to the USSR, the rest of the territory to Poland. The territories transferred to Poland under the terms of the international Yalta and Potsdam conferences in 1945, as well as as a result of bilateral agreements with the USSR in 1945-1956, are called «returned territories» in the country.
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