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24.06.2020The statement of the Institute of National Remembrance in relation to the article by President PutinThis is not the first time that the President of Russia is attempting to revive the Stalinist vision of modern history. It was created in the communist era by combining selective interpretations of facts, half-truths and propaganda. An image alternative to reality was constructed. The totalitarian Soviet Union was presented as a country of good intentions, a defender of peace and the security of nations, a noble conqueror of the German Reich. This kind of false vision of history was imposed as binding not only in the USSR but also in other countries enslaved by Moscow following World War II. At that time, revealing the truth about the actual role of the USSR in the history of the continent, about enslaving the people of Central and Eastern Europe, about Soviet crimes against peace, war crimes and crimes against humanity, was threatened with severe repression. It is surprising that today, in a free world, the Russian President is trying to promote theses which are almost a literal copy of the propaganda dating back to the era of Stalin and Brezhnev. He does so, in an article appearing in The National Interest.
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03.05.2020229th anniversary of the Constitution of 3 MayAdopted on 3 May 1791 in Warsaw by the Sejm of the Polish Republic (later known as the Great Sejm), the Polish Constitution was Europe’s first and the world’s second modern constitution.
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10.04.2020The tenth anniversary of the Smolensk plane crashOn 10 April 2010, a special TU-154M plane with the President of Poland Lech Kaczyński and the First Lady Maria Kaczyńska on board took off from Warsaw to Smolensk. On that very day the members of the official delegation were to participate in the ceremonies taking place in the Katyn War Cemetery, commemorating the 70th anniversary of the crime committed there. The aircraft carried 96 people, including members of the highest state authorities, representatives of various social circles and religious denominations, high-ranking military commanders and the plane’s crew. All the flight passengers died in the air disaster which took place during landing at the airport near Smolensk.
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23.01.2020The Truth That Must Not DieThe President of Poland on the 75th Anniversary of Liberation of the Nazi German Death Camp KL Auschwitz.
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29.12.2019Statement by the Prime Minister of Poland Mateusz Morawiecki
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21.11.201913th Warsaw Seminar on Human Rights“Poland has traditionally been interested in and committed to the promotion and protection of the rights of the child both internationally – at the UN, the Council of Europe and the European Union – and nationally,” emphasised Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Marcin Przydacz launching the 13th Warsaw Seminar titled “Rights of the Child in the Light of the European Convention on Human Rights.”
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14.11.2019Presentation of the book "Killed in Kalinin, buried in Miednoje"On October 23, 2019, at the "History Stop" event of the Institute of National Remembrance in Warsaw, the book "Killed in Kalinin, buried in Miednoje" (Убиты в Калинине, захоронены в Медном) was presented. The three-volume work contains more than 6,000 biographical notes of Polish prisoners of war in Ostashkov, who died in captivity or were shot by the order of the USSR authorities of March 5, 1940. The book also presents source materials documenting the crime and exhumations of victims carried out in 1991 and 1995.
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18.09.2019Inauguration of the exhibition “Fighting and suffering. Polish Citizens during World War II“To commemorate the 80th anniversary of the outbreak of World War II, the Permanent Representation of the Republic of Poland presents an exhibition of the Museum of the Second World War, at the Council of Europe, in Strasbourg.
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01.09.201980th anniversary of the outbreak of the Second World WarEighty years ago, German aggression on Poland started the Second World War. In the early hours of 1 September 1939, troops of the German Reich crossed the Polish-German border. Polish Army put up military resistance and expected the Allies’ reaction. On 3 September 1939, France and the UK declared war on the German Reich but did not take any real military action. Poland’s tragic fate was sealed on 17 September 1939 when the Soviet Union launched the invasion of Poland from the East. The attack of the German Reich and the Soviet Union resulted from the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact signed by the two totalitarian regimes, a secret protocol to which effectively divided Central Europe into the so-called spheres of influence.
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26th Conference of Ministers of Education of the Council of Europe