Why is Poland the European country most determined to break its ties with Russia?

In 2012, Russia and Poland they promised themselves”overcome the painful historical memories” -such as the deaths caused by the dictator Josef Stalin- and improve their bilateral relations. Reuters recalls that, at that meeting, the then Prime Minister of Russia, Vladimir Putinasked that not all Russians be blamed for the “murder of 22,000 Polish soldiers by Stalin’s secret police”. The best they could do, she maintained, was “Look To The Future”.

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“We cannot change the past, but we can establish and preserve the truth and that means historical justice.”, Putin maintained.

A decade later it is clear that the plans failed.

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Europe must understand that if it loses Ukraine it will never be the same again. It will no longer be Europe. Rather it will be a defeated, humiliated and pathetic version of its former self. I want a strong and resolute Europe. pic.twitter.com/ENMRSDNUVU

— Mateusz Morawiecki (@MorawieckiM) March 15, 2022

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The beginning of the ‘derussification’

The Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawieckihas recently declared that the country will begin to take measures to “break economic ties with Moscow” or, in other words, to start the “derussification”.

“Morawiecki called the measures an ‘Anti-Putin Shield’, a terminology similar to that used with the government’s packages of measures to cushion the blow to businesses and households from COVID-19 and inflation, and said the objective The main thing is to stop the increase in food prices”, explains Reuters.

But how easy will it be to break away from the Kremlin?

The plan is not so new. At the end of last year, it was announced that the Poland-Lithuania gas pipeline, of more than 530 kilometers. This work seeksovercome the energy isolation of the Baltic countries and their dependence on Russia”.

Then, Euronews maintained that the gas would start flowing from mid-2022.

The outlook for the derussification plan, however, is uncertain, although the West is watching for any hint of retaliation. So much so that, last Sunday, the Department of Defense of United States viewed with concern the Kremlin’s shelling of a Ukrainian base located just 20 kilometers from the border with Poland.

Pentagon spokesman John Kirby denounced: “Clearly, from an airstrikes perspective, the Russians are expanding their military objectives.”.

It is here, in war-torn Kyiv, that history is being made. It is here, that freedom fights against the world of tyranny. It is here that the future of us all hangs in the balance. EU supports UA, which can count on the help of its friends – we brought this message to Kyiv today. pic.twitter.com/Us7k9xTq5f

— Mateusz Morawiecki (@MorawieckiM) March 15, 2022

Meanwhile, Poland – a member of the European Union since May 2004 – makes efforts to end the war. In fact, both Morawiecki and his peers in Slovenia and Czech Republic (Janez Jansa and Petr Fiala, respectively) traveled this week to Kyivwhich has been besieged by the Russians.

Morawiecki tweeted: “It is here that freedom fights against the world of tyranny. It is here that the future of all of us hangs in the balance.”.

Later, the entourage met with the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky to give you all your support. How could it be otherwise, during the meeting they heard “loud explosions” in the capital.

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Source: Elcomercio

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