President Aunty Decides to Cancel Arrival in Commemoration of the 75th Anniversary of Auschwitz • Background: His Demand for Speech and Responding to President Putin's Accusations of the Poles in the Holocaust

• Polish President Andrzej Duda // Photo: Reuters

Following the crisis with Putin: Polish President Andrzej Duda announced Tuesday that a special ceremony marking the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz Extermination Camp, expected to take place in Jerusalem, will not take place in two weeks.

President Duda's statement comes in the wake of a crisis in Russia-Poland relations, after Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed his views that Poland cooperated with the Nazi porter Hitler and supported his approach towards the Jews. "In essence, they collaborated with Hitler. This is clear from documents, archives," Putin said in a year-end speech at the Defense Ministry. The Russian president also said that whoever was the Polish ambassador to Germany on the eve of the outbreak of World War II promised to erect a statue of Hitler in Warsaw for his commitments to send Jews to Africa.

"He is a bastard, an anti-Semitic pig. You cannot put it in any other way. He expressed full identification with Hitler in his anti-Semitic views," Putin said.

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In light of the crisis in his relations with President Putin, the Polish president announced that he would speak at the international ceremony marking the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, which will take place in Israel, "only if it allows him to respond to Russian President Vladimir Putin's lies."

The Poles fear that the Russian version of past events will be widely expressed, and that President Putin, who is expected to be among the speakers at the ceremonies, will take the stage to speak of the condemnation of Poland. They also fear that once again their state will be portrayed as responsible for the destruction of the Jews on their land, even though during the war it was under Nazi conquests.

The Rock of Controversy. Russian President Vladimir Putin // Photo: IP

In Warsaw, the Russian president, who confronts Poland with other issues, was also furious. Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Moravitsky issued a detailed statement stating that "without Stalin's and Hitler's Soviet Union cooperation, World War II would not have been breached. Without Stalin's assistance to Hitler, Germany would not have been able to conquer Europe. The latest aid left the Soviet Union one day before Germany attacked its ally (USSR, etc.). ”The Polish leader even counted the crimes against Stalin's humanity, which ruled the murder of 20 to 30 million citizens of his country.

Between Israel and Poland Tensions have risen for about a year following Foreign Minister Israel Katz's statement that "there were many Poles who cooperated with the Nazis," and even mentioned the remarks of former Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir. "The Poles suck off anti-Semitism with their mother's milk. ".

Israeli media consultant Johnny Daniels, who is close to the Polish top and works in Warsaw for Holocaust survivors, told "Israel Today" that "it is very important for President Auntie to attend events in Israel to mark the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, since the camp is on Polish soil. The ceremonies were more likely to take place here in Poland and not in Israel. But once it was decided, it is important that her uncle also come with dozens of world leaders, but that he also has the right to speak in case President Putin again attacks Poland and distorts history. "