The Polish Foreign Ministry was going to demand from Russia reparations for the Second World War

The Polish authorities will calculate the amount of damage caused by the Soviet Union during World War II and demand appropriate reparations from Moscow. This is stated in a statement by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Poland regarding similar requirements to the German government.

“The calculation of wartime losses inflicted on the USSR will be prepared on the basis of studies similar to those that led to the compilation of a report on the losses suffered by Poland as a result of German aggression and occupation during the Second World War of 1939-1945,” the report says. website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Poland.

In Moscow, these demands were called “political fantasies” and accused Warsaw of trying to solve internal problems with “historical revisionism.”

“Their blatant immorality is obvious: after all, if it were not for the victory of the USSR over Nazi Germany, then Poland as a national state of the Polish people would not exist, and millions of Poles would have faced the unenviable fate of enslavement and extermination at the hands of the Nazis,” said Oleg, head of the third European department of the Foreign Ministry. Tyapkin.

In September, the Polish Sejm adopted a resolution on war reparations from Germany for losses during World War II. Warsaw estimates the amount of military damage at 6 trillion 220 billion 609 million Polish zlotys ($1.3 trillion). On October 25, the Polish parliament postponed consideration of the resolution.

Poland and Germany also called on Russia to pay reparations to Ukraine for the destruction caused during the invasion. “We agree that the war should end with Ukraine gaining full territorial integrity, bringing those responsible for war crimes to justice and Russia paying war reparations and compensation,” Polish Foreign Minister Zbigniew Rau said after meeting with his German counterpart Annalena Berbock on October 4.