Relations between Poland and Russia

September 1 day this year marks the 80th anniversary of the German invasion of Poland. Poland invited more than 200 officials from 40 countries to participate in the commemorative activities held that day, but Russia was not invited. Poland did not invite Russia to commemorate the outbreak of World War II, which caused Russian dissatisfaction. The Russian Foreign Ministry, the Russian Presidential Press Secretary and the Chairman of the Russian Duma all criticized Poland for ignoring the Soviet Union's contribution in World War II as "ignorance, inferiority and stupidity".

Exchanges between countries are based on national interests. Poland invited more than 40 countries to participate in the commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the outbreak of World War II, but did not invite Russia, which made great contributions to World War II. Obviously, this is related to the discord between Poland and Russia. Today, Mr. Su Ming will give you a detailed analysis of why the relations between Poland and Russia are not good.

1. During the period of Poland's prosperity, Russians were the targets of Polish abuse.

Poles and Russians are both branches of Slavs, but Poles are West Slavs and Russians are East Slavs. Historically, Poles were founded much earlier than Russia, and Poland became a European power as early as 10 century. At that time, the Eastern Slavs formed the Gullas tribe and established the Gullas State in today's Kiev, so the founding of Russia was indeed hundreds of years later than that of Poland.

During the Mongolian invasion and rule of Russia, Russia was divided. At this time, Poland and Lithuania took advantage of the fire and robbed Russia between Poland, Lithuania and the Mongols. This period was the period when Poles enslaved Eastern Slavs. However, the Poles did not become bigger and stronger. After the gradual rise of Russia, they became the bitter rivals of the Poles.

1605, Russia began to fall into chaos. With its strong military strength, Poland has successively trained two czars, but neither of them was what Poland hoped. In the end, the Polish king simply became the czar of Russia himself. Poland occupied Moscow for two years from 16 10 to 16 12, which was the darkest period in Russian history.

Second, after the rise of Russia, Poland became the target of Russia's attack and partition.

100 years later, Russia gradually developed and grew, while Poland gradually declined due to the implementation of the system of "free choice of king" and "free veto", and Russia gradually gained the upper hand in the struggle with Poland. 1772-1795, Russia, together with Prussia and the Grand Duchy of Austria, carved up Poland three times, which led to Poland's direct national subjugation and lasted for more than 800 years.

World War I gave Poland a chance to revive the country. Soviet Russia abolished all treaties signed with Prussia and Austria and recognized the "undeniable right of independence and reunification" of Poles. The Allies also agreed to restore Poland, so that Poland, which perished in 123, could restore the country.

During World War II, Germany and the Soviet Union plotted to carve up Poland again, which made Poland, which had just recovered from China for a long time, face the danger of national extinction again. On September 1939, 1, the German blitzkrieg raided Poland. As a result, the Polish army was vulnerable, and Germany soon occupied most of Poland's territory. On the grounds of establishing the Eastern Front, the Soviet Union sent 600,000 troops to attack eastern Poland and occupied western Ukraine and western Belarus. Then the Soviet and German armies met in Brest-Litovsk, and the two countries carved up Poland again, which led to Poland's national subjugation again.

The feud between Russia and Poland, apart from the two disasters of national subjugation, has always been the Katyn forest tragedy that worried Poland. During World War II, in order to defeat Poland completely, the Soviet Union created the Katyn Forest Massacre, which resulted in the brutal cleansing of 2 1000 Polish officers, civil servants and intellectuals. At that time, Germany and the Soviet Union blamed each other, but it was not until the Soviet archives were declassified in the 1990s that the truth came out, which was an insurmountable threshold between Poland and Russia.