The State Duma has expressed disapproval of the Polish parliamentarians who are not satisfied with the contours of quiet dialogue between Russia and Poland, emerging after a visit to Poland of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.
“This discussion may not be construed otherwise than a desperate attempt to reverse the already present history of relations between the two countries,” - says the letter, which the International Committee of the State Duma sent to the head of the Foreign Affairs Committee of Polish Sejm Andrzej Halitskomu in response to the parliamentarians adopted a resolution in connection Soviet aggression against Poland on Sept. 17, 1939.
Sejm of Poland on Sept. 23 adopted a resolution condemning the “invasion” of the Red Army in 1939 in Western Ukraine and Western Belorussia, which by then was part of the Polish state. Resolution for the first time for action against the USSR in Poland during World War II used the word “genocide”. The text states that the shooting of Polish officers at Katyn in 1940 was a “war crime” which had “signs of genocide.”
“Despite the fact that the differences in the estimates are still preserved, however, to chart a more peaceful dialogue on these issues without unnecessary declaration of controversial topics and stories of their negative overlay of modern Russo-Polish relations,” - says the letter.
Similar resolutions stoking nationalist sentiment and aggressive toward its neighbors, the Polish parliament a disservice to his people, believe Russia’s deputy.
In the State Duma agreed with the findings of the Polish colleagues that the Polish-Russia reconciliation requires respect for historical truth, the document says.
The main goals of Putin’s visit to Poland in early September were “opposition in the international context, attempt to revise the history of the Second World War, as well as to give impetus to bilateral Russo-Polish relations.” Causes and lessons of the Second World War became the main theme of all the speeches at the ceremony on Westerplatte in Poland to mark the 70 th anniversary of the war.
Putin and Prime Minister Donald Tusk in the negotiations agreed on the fact that the causes of World War II should find out specialists, and public relations must move forward.



