He has been referred to court for using a document from a country that has not existed for over 30 years.
He has been referred to court for using a document from a country that has not existed for over 30 years.
But it has also tightened the rules to ensure only genuine applicants qualify and to protect national security.
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Vyacheslav Volodin also said that “Poland must return” lands that it received as part of the postwar settlement.
The “then allied Germany and USSR” oversaw “occupation, systematic genocide and mass deportations of Polish citizens”, says KO.
Over 22,000 Polish military officers and intelligentsia were killed by the Soviet Union in the Katyn massacres of 1940.
The date “symbolises historical justice and reunification of the Belarusian nation”, says President Lukashenko’s office.
A further poll shows that PiS supporters think western countries benefit more from Polish membership of the EU than Poland itself does.
Norman Davies
While the Soviets liberated Auschwitz, they were filling another former Nazi camp, Majdanek, with Polish prisoners.
Leading figures from SLD are accused of “falsifying Polish history” by perpetuating the “Soviet narrative” that Poland was liberated by the Red Army.