What did Donald Tusk mean?

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What did Donald Tusk mean?
date: February 15, 2024 Editor: GKut

A horse with a row of who can answer the question posed in the title. But possibly it'll be easier to figure out the answers erstwhile we narrow it down to 1 message by Donald Tusk. To the speech given at the press conference in Berlin during the first visit to Germany as Prime Minister of the fresh Polish government. Tusk said there that “In a formal, legal, global sense, reparation was closed many years agoIt’s okay. ”

Donald Tusk and Olaf Scholz / photograph PAP/Marcin Obara

What did Donald Tusk mean erstwhile he said those words? No papers or historical facts are known to licence specified a statement. And the case was examined and analysed by historians and specialists on global relations and bilateral relations between Poland and Germany. The chronology of events related to the issue of due Polish reparations was described in my earlier column in September 2022. Below this text I will callback the most crucial passages of that article.

So possibly Donald Tusk, saying that “the issue of reparation was closed many years ago” meant the funds received from the Germans to establish the Liberal-Democratic Congress? As described in his book and confirmed in press interviews, Paweł Piskorski “CDU It's gone unrequited. KLD A fewer 100 1000 marks. It was money in cash that KLD activists exchanged in currency exchange for gold in Warsaw. The money went to build the organization in 1991.It’s okay. ” This was indeed “many years ago”, but if the support provided by the KLD Germans was treated by them as part of Poland's due reparations, the amount of this non-refundable donation may be deducted from Poland's due amount6 trillion 220 billion 609 million. Even if Mr Tusk and Mr Scholz agree that it was not respective 100 1000 but respective 100 million brands, Poles will most likely agree to even deduct this amount from our reparations.

There is another issue concerning German money, which should be addressed on this occasion. According to independent media, the Germans donated considerable funds to financial support of the full opposition during the last run in Poland. No 1 can precisely find this amount, but no substance how advanced it was, in the context of Tusk's effort to renounce Poland's due reparation the rate of return on this investment proves to be more than profitable for the Germans. If Germany has actually invested money in bringing about a change of government in Poland, specified a government has lost the right to take any position on behalf of the Polish Nation and the Polish State. Therefore, if the Germans want to close the issue of reparations erstwhile and for all, they should search agreement and compromise with the constitutional majority of the Polish Sejm alternatively than trust on the faithful statements of Donald Tusk.

Mr Bogdan

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Particle fragments of September 2022

It is worth reminding – even briefly, in points – the historical facts of respective decades ago, related to the consequences of the outbreak and the end of planet War II.

  • At the turn of July and August 1945, the Potsdam Conference was held, aimed at eliminating the effects of planet War II and trying to form the postwar world. Only 3 powers attended the conference: the USA, the USSR and the United Kingdom. The conference was not attended by the most deprived Poland as a consequence of the war, nor by the defeated Germany, which caused and started the war. The intent of the Potsdam Conference was, among another things, to make future peace treaties, but the Peace Conference, which was to formally end planet War II and order the issues of relations between individual countries never took place.
  • The decision of the Potsdam Conference was to grant Poland parts of the east German lands, but not as compensation for the material and individual losses incurred by Poland during the war, but as compensation for the russian Union's east Poland. This compensation was only partial in addition, as Poland lost 175 1000 km2 of erstwhile Kresów to the russian Union and in return received only 100 1000 km2 of land belonging to Germany before the war.

It is worth noting that, although it is legally permissible to take specified decisions towards 3rd countries, and thus those that do not participate in negotiations, like Poland and Germany in Potsdam, but how fragile are these findings, it is evidence that Germany has disputed the granting of these areas to Poland for many years and only the Polish-German Treaty of November 1990 (!!!) yet regulated and closed the legal issue of the Polish-German border.

  • During the Potsdam Power Conference, they did not grant Poland any reparations concerning material and individual losses straight from Germany. Stalin reported the readiness to pay Poland as a "brotherly country" 15% of the value of the reparations paid by Germany to the USSR.
  • However, the russian Union made the transfer of these reparations to Poland dependent on the supply of coal from Poland at low prices. The Russians considered that the coal mined by Poles in advanced Silesia came from mines that belonged to Germany before the war, so as a victorious power they simply have the right to it. And so Poland supplied Russia with "post-German" coal at a price of 10% of the marketplace value, below mining costs, and yet the USSR did not meet the payment of 15% of the reparations promised to Poland. Paradoxically, it can so be considered that Poland paid the USSR reparations on behalf of Germany.
  • In 1949 a fresh state was established in the russian business zone, a subsidiary of the USSR, the German Democratic Republic (NRD). This did not bother the Soviets to collect reparations from the "brotherly country" which was to be the GDR. In 1953, in the economically drained GDR, there were mass protests of workers which led to the outbreak of the alleged June Uprising. The uprising was bloodyly suppressed by the Red Army and the Germans began to flee massively west to the national Republic of Germany. The Soviets began to realize that maintaining political control of the GDR was incompatible with downloading reparations.
  • Thus, in August 1953, the USSR undertook to discontinue reparation from the GDR on 1 January 1954. The russian authorities expected a akin decision from Poland. The incentive for Poland was to marketplace coal prices supplied by Poland to the USSR, and thus to accept as specified fair trade, at the expense of giving up reparation. It is highly crucial that the russian Union's resignation of the reparation and the anticipation of a akin declaration from Poland afraid exclusively the GDR, it did not concern the full of Germany, it did not concern West Germany or the national Republic of Germany. It is besides worth remembering that at the time West Germany (RFN) did not recognise the existence of East Germany (NRD) and treated all agreements concluded by 3rd countries from the GDR as invalid by law. So formally, Germany cannot be the successor of giving up reparation to the GDR even if it actually happened from Poland.
  • The only evidence of Poland's alleged resignation of the reparation (of course to the GDR and not to the full of Germany) is the Polish Press Agency's August 1953 message published in the People's Court, informing about specified a resolution of the Council of Ministers. If specified a resolution was to be adopted, it could only be adopted by the Council of State and not by the Council of Ministers under the power of the PRL of the Constitution. The resolution cited by the People's Court was never published in the diary of Laws or in the Polish Monitor. There is besides no proof that Poland has issued a diplomatic note to the authorities of the GDR, and even little a return note which would legally sanction the unilateral waiver of reparation. There is besides no evidence that the resolution entered into force as an global agreement. To do so, she would should be notified by the UN, and there is no sign of specified notification either.

This is what past looked like briefly, and it is in the context of this communicative that we request to integrate the issue of the present lifting of the reparations due to us. It is amazing that many opposition politicians who are educated historians do not know these facts or can't learn from them.

Marcin Bogdan, September 2022

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