The Communist Party faction of the State Duma has proposed to task the Duma international affairs committee with requesting from the Russian Foreign Ministry information on the possibility of perpetuating the memory of the Red Army troops who freed the Eastern Slavic regions of Russia from Polish occupation seventy years ago.
Three members of the Communist Party faction (Sergei Obukhov, Valery
Rashkin, and Vladimir Khakhichev) recalled at the State Duma meeting on
Wednesday that September 17 is the 70th anniversary of the “liberation
crusade of the Red Army, which led to the release of the Eastern Slavic
population of the old Russian land of Western Russia from Polish
occupation.”
“Thanks to the liberation crusade of the Red Army, historical
justice was done. For the first time the state unity of two parts of
the triune Russian people; Russians, Ukrainians, and Belarusians was
restored,” the parliamentarians said in their statement.
“The high moral and political authority of the actions taken by the
USSR then, 70 years ago is indicated by the fact that, when the USSR
collapsed, no country refused the territories they acquired after that
liberation crusade and Poland did not contest its receipt of land from
the German Reich after WW II, which in a way compensate Poland for its
territorial losses,” the parliamentarians said.
The authors of the initiative are confident that the restoration of
“historical justice on September 17, 1939 led to the release of
“thousands of political prisoners from the Polish concentration camp of
Bereza Kartuzskaya.”
