Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said that the USSR and Germany are responsible for the beginning of the Second world war. He is quoted by TASS.
“It was not only a total war, but also a totalitarian one, because it was launched by two totalitarian regimes. Totalitarian in design, destructive, barbaric and in the full sense of the word criminal, ” the Prime Minister said, accusing the countries of starting a military conflict.
At the end of January 2020, the Deputy head of the Polish foreign Minister Shimon Cross called on the President of Russia Vladimir Putin to tell the truth about the Holocaust. According to him, the Russian leader unfairly recorded Poland among the countries that launched the Second world war.
On June 22, 1941, Hitler’s troops and their European allies attacked the USSR. The great Patriotic war lasted almost four years and ended with the liberation from Nazism in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe.
Military losses of the USSR in the Second world war are estimated at more than 12 million people, total human losses-about 27 million people.
In the United States, great Britain, and most Western European countries, the end of world war II in Europe is celebrated on may 8 — the day of the German surrender — and is called Victory Day in Europe. In Russia, Victory Day is celebrated on may 9 due to time zone differences.