Vladimir Putin’s desire to rehabilitate the Stalin pact
Summary
The article is primarily about Vladimir Putin’s desire to rehabilitate the Stalin pact. This is on account that at the time the Soviet army had liberated it on 27th January 1945, over one million individuals, ninety percent of them being the Jews, had been killed at Auschwitz-Birkenau. The Nazi evil is globally accredited by the largest German death-camp situated in Poland.
The article also describes that the antipathy between Russia and Poland is antique. However, in the previous month, Vladimir Putin aggravated by initiating one of the largest offensives of propaganda of his twenty-year hold onto power. This was similar to anti-NATO speech that he had conveyed in Munich back in the year 2007. Though during this time, he was trying to upend the whole soviet aggression history toward eastern Europe. In a crucial moment in this tale is when Stalin and Hitler signed the non-aggression pact in August 1939 and concurred to divide eastern Europe. This prompted the Soviet’s and Nazi’s invasion of Poland, and thus the beginning of the second world war (WWII). This war/invasion had several impacts on the poles i.e., in 1940, the Russian troops murdered 20,000 people in Poland in Katyn Forest, and later, this war imposed the communist dictatorship on Poland for decennaries.
Generally, Putin’s goal was to cite a dispatch by the ambassador of Poland to Nazi Germany, to applaud Hitler’s plan of deporting the Jews to Africa. Putin viewed the dispatch as an act of self-defense. Though the Polish Jewish leaders highlighted that Józef Lipski, Poland’s ambassador, had already assisted the Jews to escape to Poland from Germany before the second world war, therefore, they warned that if the history of the war was distorted, then the basis of the modern European identity will be threatened.
The European Parliament passed the resolution that blamed Stalin’s pact with Hitler for the second world war in September. This resolution denounced Stalinist, the fascist, and different authoritarian and totalitarian regimes and instead called for the resilience against modern democracy threats. And to hit back, Kremlin was to manipulate the Poland and EU divisions which had been created by the attacks of Poland on its judiciary independence
Due to numerous reasons, the Spanish-American war was the turning point in US history (Marolda, 2016). The conflagration that took four months marked the US transition from the developing country into a universal power (Marolda, 2016). At its inference, the USA had obtained Guam, Philippines, and Puerto Rico. Besides, the Spanish-American War was the initial effective test of new armored navies.
However, Vladimir Putin was deeply concerned following the US Invasion of Cuba (Spanish-American War), alleging that the topical movement of the USA military forces further into the Cuban territory was a treacherous provocation. He was deeply concerned that geopolitics was to return to a Cold War-era, which wasn’t in their political interest.
References
Marolda, E. (Ed.). (2016). Theodore Roosevelt, the US Navy, and the Spanish-American War. Springer.