DISINFO: The Polish Home Army tried to prevent peace in the areas liberated from the Nazis
SUMMARY
The archive documents declassified by the Russian FSB prove that the soldiers of the Polish Home Army, led by the government-in-exile in London, committed numerous murders at the end of the war in 1944-45, trying to prevent peace in the areas liberated from the Nazis.
RESPONSE
This message is a part of the Russian historical revisionism efforts, trying to portray the USSR as a “liberator” and a peaceful country.
The Russian FSB regularly declassifies “secret” documents trying to denigrate the Polish Home Army and other formations, who fought both against the Nazi and Soviet occupation.
According to the Polish Institute of National Remembrance, the declassified documents published by Russia do not bring any particularly significant new information on Soviet operations during 1944-1945. The institute also states that during this period, the Soviet Union, at the same time as fighting Germany, pursued a consistent policy aimed at preventing the reconstruction of the independent Republic of Poland. The Soviet documents falsely present the Polish Home Army self-defence actions against Soviet enslavement, massive repression and murders by the NKVD and other formations in the parts of Poland occupied by the USSR as "terrorist activities", hiding the entire Soviet policy against Poland's independence in 1944-1945. The Polish Minister of Culture, Piotr Gliński, reacted to the Russian publication of the declassified archive materials with an appeal for the return of national treasures and archives taken by the USSR from Poland during and after WWII.
See other examples of Russian historical revisionism concerning this issue such as Signing of the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact thwarted the UK’s expansionist plans in Europe, The Molotov-Ribbentrop pact did not violate the rights of the Polish state and the shift of all blame for WWII outbreak at the Ribbentrop-Molotov pact the best example of manipulation of history.