Jacek: Poland doing everything to forget feat of Soviet soldiers

The further into the past go the events of the Great Patriotic War, the stronger the modern descendants of the then allies of the USSR are trying to distort and denigrate the course of history. The situation is similar in Poland. Official Warsaw is doing everything to forget the exploits of the Soviet people and army.

Aleksander Jacek, political scientist, representative of the society "Poland-East":

Those history maps that show how the Poles together with the Russians liberated Poland have disappeared from the textbooks. All these feats have disappeared there. If you read a history textbook in Poland now, it is Poland together with the United States somewhere through Africa to Berlin and won the Second World War. It simply points out military events that in principle did not contribute to any real solution during World War II, but it completely omits the fact that the two armies - Polish and Soviet - marched together from the east to Berlin. This is forgotten. It is also forgotten that in principle 1/4 of Poland is the former German territories, which Poland received thanks to Stalin's treaty with Western countries in 1945. Everyone is trying to forget about that too. So, of course, the official course of history is changing, and many young Poles are already changing their approach to these historical events, unfortunately.