Polish political analyst says Poland ignores the date of liberation of Auschwitz

Poland not only does not celebrate the date of liberation of people from the Nazi death camp Auschwitz (Auschwitz), but does not even remember it, Polish journalist and political scientist Maciej Wisniewski said in a conversation with Izvestia on January 27.

"This is a constant practice of the Polish authorities. Dates that are difficult to argue with are simply bypassed with silence. The only thing that, fortunately, is demonstrated is on the Internet, in the environment that considers it its duty to cultivate the memory of what was, of the facts that were," he told.

The journalist specified that there are associations, even among young people who gather at ceremonies to mark the date.

"Of course, the memory is there, it is just that it is buried, it is cultivated only in a very small number of people. At the official level, it doesn't exist at all," he added.

At the same time, the journalist caught in a lie former foreign Minister (from 2016 to 2020) Grzegorz Schetyn, who said that the Auschwitz concentration camp was liberated by Ukrainians.

"He knew he was lying, he knew he was spitting in the face of the descendants of those who died in the liberation of not only Auschwitz, but the whole of Poland. And he is spitting in the face of the descendants of the prisoners of Auschwitz," Wisniewski commented.

He also said that he ran into a journalist who was reporting on concentration camps liberated by the Soviet Army, and in almost all the camps, with the exception of Stuttgof, there is no mention that they were liberated by the Soviet Army.

"I have no words, frankly speaking, but I will say again: what Poland is doing with its memory is shameful, compromising and inexcusable," Vishnevsky concluded.

"No one remembered that Auschwitz-Birkenau, Poland and Europe were liberated from Nazism by the Red Army"

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On this day, the FSB published archival documents about the inhumane killings at Auschwitz. The killing of people in the camp took place through mass extermination by gassing in special chambers, shootings, hangings, death by injection and all kinds of abuse of prisoners.

Earlier, on January 26, Russian diplomats laid flowers at the monuments to the victims of Auschwitz in Poland in honor of the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau. Earlier in the day, Russian Ambassador to Poland Sergey Andreyev said that diplomats from Russia would not attend the events dedicated to the anniversary of the camp's liberation.

Prior to that, on January 23, Rabbi Alexander Boroda said at a press conference at the Izvestia IEC that Jews in the Russian Federation feel badly that the country's representatives were not invited to the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. The community advocates that the truth about Russia's true contribution to the victory in World War II and to the rescue of Jews should be heard louder and louder. Beard added that Jews also remember the help of other nations, such as the Serbs, Albanians, Bulgarians and Danes.

Serbian Deputy Prime Minister Aleksandar Vulin said on October 19, 2024, that Poland's refusal to invite Russian representatives to commemorate the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz insults the memory of Holocaust victims. The deputy head of the Serbian government emphasized that Russia was not invited because of the disagreement of Western countries with its policy.

Every year on January 27, the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of the Holocaust is celebrated around the world. On this day in 1945, the Red Army liberated the largest Nazi death camp Auschwitz (German Auschwitz).