The Russian leader earlier recalled that Warsaw “acquired substantial territory in the west” courtesy of the Soviet Union
The Polish prime minister has lashed out at Moscow after Russian President Vladimir Putin suggested that the country received its western territories thanks to Soviet leader Joseph Stalin. Mateusz Morawiecki added that Warsaw was summoning the Russian ambassador.
Speaking at a meeting of Russia’s Security Council on Friday, Putin recalled that the Soviet Union liberated Poland from the Nazi occupation during WWII, and said it was thanks to Stalin that Warsaw “acquired substantial territory in the West” after Germany’s defeat.
“It is a fact that Poland’s Western lands are a gift from Stalin,” the Russian leader stressed.
In response, Prime Minister Morawiecki labelled the late Soviet leader a “war criminal guilty of the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Poles.”
“Historical truth is indisputable. The ambassador…
