Comments by "" (@user-si2dr1pn3p) on "Polish PM accuses EU of blackmail as row over rule of law escalates - BBC Newsnight" video.
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@rogersponge6153 Katyn's case has not been fully investigated.
It is known that the investigative commission easily determined the ranks of those executed in Katyn. How? And according to the insignia! Both Dr. Butz's report and some of the witness statements mention the asterisks on the shoulder straps of the dead. But, according to the Soviet regulations on prisoners of war of 1931, they were FORBIDDEN to wear insignia! So the shoulder straps with asterisks could not possibly be on the uniforms of prisoners shot by the NKVD in 1940. Wearing insignia in captivity was allowed only by a new Regulation adopted on July 1, 1941. It was also allowed by the Geneva Convention.
It turns out that the Russians could not shoot Polish prisoners in 1940, crowned with military insignia, which were found together with the remains of the dead. This could not be simply because these same insignia were torn off from all prisoners of war. Our prisoner-of-war camps did not contain captured generals, captured officers or captured privates: by their status, they were all just prisoners, WITHOUT INSIGNIA!
And this means that Poles with "asterisks" could be executed by the NKVD only after July 1, 1941. But they were shot back in 1940. Could this have happened? In Soviet military camps – definitely not. But in the German camps, this was the norm: Germany had already joined (unlike the USSR) the Geneva Convention on Prisoners of War. Of course, I feel sorry for the murdered Poles. But first of all, I am against groundless accusations. And secondly, modern Russians have nothing to do with it.
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@charonboat6394 After the liberation of Poland from the German occupation, the Soviet Union embarked on a large-scale program to restore the economy of this country, destroyed by the Nazis. At the same time, the Soviet government acted selflessly, often sacrificing its interests for the sake of strengthening the newly independent Polish state.
At the end of 1944, the USSR provided Poland with multimillion-dollar interest-free loans. The USSR sent to Poland 45 thousand tons of coal, 3 thousand tons of kerosene, 280 thousand tons of motor oil, 6 thousand tons of salt, 60 tons of tea, 150 thousand heads of cattle, 20 thousand tons of cotton, 2 thousand tons of wool, 100 thousand large leathers, seeds for sowing, medicines, fuel, etc.
In February 1945, the request of the Polish Government for the provision of logistical assistance in the amount of 50% of the costs provided for by the plan for the restoration of the main districts of Warsaw was granted. Soviet architects, using documents from the archives of the USSR, contributed to the development and implementation of a complex and expensive project to recreate the historical appearance of the country's capital. Polish builders said that half of the restored Poland consists of Soviet cement and bricks.
In 1947, the USSR sent thousands of tons of grain and other types of food to the Poles, which made it possible to avoid a large-scale famine in Poland due to drought.
In 1948, Warsaw signed an agreement with Moscow on the supply of Soviet industrial equipment worth almost half a billion dollars. free of charge.
Due to the Soviet share of reparations that Germany had to pay ($ 10 billion), Poland received financial and logistical assistance in the amount of about $ 1 billion.
Due to the growth of trade turnover between Poland and the USSR by 1949, the production of industrial products in Poland increased 2.5 times compared to the pre-war years, the economic return on the sale of Polish industrial goods increased by more than 200%.
By 1950, the total value of trade turnover exceeded $ 1 billion, the country increased the number of jobs with an industrial component to record levels for the entire existence of Poland.
As a result, the first three-year plan for the restoration of the Polish economy, developed by Warsaw and Moscow, was implemented ahead of schedule, after which a six-year stage of industrialization began in Poland (1950-1955).
With the active support of the USSR, heavy industry and mechanical engineering developed in Poland. By 1955, Polish production in terms of its volumes increased 2.5 times compared with the indicators of the beginning of the six-year period (1950). The number of agricultural cooperatives by 1955 increased 14.3 times compared to 1950.
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@charonboat6394 The USSR restored in Poland in 1944-1946 3327 km of main tracks and 5655 km of railways, 63 railway stations, 8 depots, the Warsaw power Plant was restored.
From August 1944 to December 31, 1945, the sanitary units of the Red Army identified more than 3.5 thousand infectious patients among the Polish population, cured almost three thousand people in army hospitals, chlorinated 16 thousand wells. Military railway workers of the Red Army restored more than four thousand kilometers of railways destroyed by the Nazis. 20 kilometers of bridges were built and restored, and the volume of earthworks carried out during the restoration of highways amounted to 465 thousand cubic meters. Against this background, "little things" like assistance in agricultural work, gratuitous provision of equipment and inventory to Polish peasants, supplies of grain, sugar and potatoes and 150 million boxes of matches, as well as much more are lost. And all this at the expense of the belligerent Red Army.
For the sake of helping the Polish Army, the Red Army even sacrificed its mobility. According to Joseph Stalin's telegram addressed to the Military Councils of the 1st, 2nd, 3rd Belorussian Fronts, 1st Ukrainian Front dated February 26, 1945, each front had to allocate 400 to 600 vehicles to representatives of the Provisional Government of Poland by March 20. In addition, 600 tons of gasoline, 30 railway tanks for the transportation of fuel, 10 Douglas aircraft and 100 Po-2 aircraft were transferred to the ally.
The Red Army, at its own expense, actually maintained the Polish Army at full board. Today, official Warsaw is paying Russia for this assistance with another "currency" - Russophobia, and active support for Western sanctions. And the war with monuments to the "occupiers" who gave their lives to their allies.
From 1945 to 1986, the USSR built 151 factories in Poland.
After the end of the war, the USSR invested a lot of money to ensure that the railways and the entire infrastructure of Poland as a whole were restored, although at the same time the Soviet people were starving. Poland's total GDP will not be enough to reimburse Russia for these costs.
At the Potsdam Conference, the USSR officially renounced in favor of Poland all claims to German property and other assets on Polish territory, including the vast new Western lands.
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