The State Duma called Poland's demands for compensation for the events of 1939 meaningless.

Conversations in Poland about compensation from Russia for the actions of the USSR in September 1939 are meaningless, since then the USSR launched a liberation campaign. This was announced on January 16 by Konstantin Zatulin, First Deputy chairman of the State Duma Committee on Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) Affairs.

"If Poland is plunging into historical circumstances in this way, then why don't we demand compensation from it for the Time of Troubles, the occupation of the Kremlin at the beginning of the 17th century," he said in an interview with Gazeta.Ru».

According to him, such requirements "are no more expensive than the paper" on which they are stated. He added that in the Baltic countries there are also periodic initiatives to recover money from Russia allegedly for their "occupation."

Earlier that day, the head of the Federal Archival Agency, Andrei Artizov, said that the declassified captured documents revealed in great detail Poland's opposition to the negotiations between France, Britain and the USSR on an alliance against the Nazis and Hitler. He recalled that in 1939, the Soviet Union was extremely interested in concluding a treaty that would prevent war.

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