Vladimir Putin in a four-hour speech at the Welsh Club conference in Sochi, the main propaganda platform of the Kremlin to form an global opinion, continued a lying communicative depicting Russia as "a sacrifice of the armed West". A novelty was the emergence of respective Polish themes in the speech of the Russian leader.
"It wasn't an accident. The Kremlin has so far sought to isolate the “Ukrainian conflict”, and possibly the Russians have now considered that the emphasis should be increased on the countries supporting Ukraine, so that we should cut off from it, especially the “front” states, among which Poland sees as the most crucial actor" - said Dr. Witold Rodkiewicz, a major specialist in the Russian Center for east Studies.
Putin manipulates Polish history
Putin referred to the Polish president Karol Nawrocki's interview for Radio Zet, claiming that Marshal Józef Piłsudski was hostile to Russia and that "Poland made very many mistakes before planet War II". The Russian leader omitted the fact that Nawrocki spoke of Piłsudski in the context of the 1920 Polish-Bolshevik War and Russia's current aggression against Ukraine, not planet War II.
According to Putin, Poland made a mistake, rejecting the "peaceful solution" of the issue of Gdańsk and the Gdańsk Corridor, resulting in "Poland was the first victim of Nazi aggression". He besides stated that in 1938 Poland did not "allow Russian troops to aid Czechoslovakia", informing that it would shoot down incoming russian aircraft.
The expert is disproving the cremal lies
"Pay attention to this paradox: Putin accuses Poland, on the 1 hand, that she did not conduct a policy of concessions towards Germany, and on the another hand she did not want to argue Nazi Germans about Czechoslovakia" - Rodkiewicz pointed out. The expert reminded that in reality the USSR did not intend to send any aircraft to aid Czechoslovakia, and Poland only declared that if russian aircraft flew without approval into its airspace, it would shoot them down.
"So it was not accidental and direct mention to the speech of Deputy Prime Minister Radosław Sikorski at the UN" - Rodkiewicz said. On 22 September at the UN safety Council, the head of the MFA warned Russia not to "come with complaints" if another rocket or aircraft enters Polish airspace without approval and is shot down.
Russia sees Poland as a key player
Putin mentioned Poland again, indicating that Russia sees Polish aspirations to be 1 of the leaders of the European Union. According to Rodkiewicz, Putin's message is simple: Poland has advanced aspirations, but nothing will come of it due to the fact that there is no possible for it.
Putin believes that Poland should act like Viktor Orban and Robert Fico, and then "maybe he can save himself in this full chaos of a decaying Europe." According to the expert, Polish expenditure on arms and diplomatic activity, "mainly active support of sanctions and position on the confiscation of frozen Russian assets", made an impression on the Kremlin and so "Poland becomes 1 of the priorities of Russian policy".
Russia as the victim - the main thesis of the occurrence
Most of Putin's speeches devoted to creating Russia as a victim of Western armaments and explaining that the West wrongly treats Russia as an enemy. "Russia is just defending itself and never started an armed confrontation with itself," Putin said.
"Every conviction of Putin from this speech would should be deconstructed, due to the fact that even in terms utilized by him is contained a fundamental lie" - Rodkiewicz said. Putin said that there was an "extermination of the Russian nation on our own historical land" in Donbasa, and that this process began in 2014, after a "bloody coup in Ukraine".
Manipulation of War Causes
"It is simply a complete reversal of concepts and manipulation of facts. In fact, we were dealing with a separatist coup there, and the blood poured out in Ukraine in the sense that the fall of president Yanukovych was caused by the bloody suppression of protests in Kiev Majdan by the police" - the expert recalled. He stressed that in Donbas the Ukrainians attacked not the civilian population, but the separatists who were sent from Russia and rose armedly against the power recognized by the Ukrainian parliament.
Putin besides stated that the war in Ukraine provoked the West, and those who "raised and armed it" are to blame. According to him, there would be no war "if Ukraine had not become a destructive weapon in another people's hands and if NATO had not been approaching our borders."
The West refused to give arms to Ukraine
"Putin's words about Western threat are a fabrication, a complete lie of reality. After all, until September 2021 the West did not want Ukraine to give arms" - the expert recalled. He added that it was only in the fall of 2021 that Americans began sending Stingers and Javelina to Kiev, assuming it would be a weapon for guerrillas, "because Ukraine would fall".
In Rodkiewicz's opinion in 2014, it was not about NATO "under the Russian border", but about the Russians trying to prevent Ukraine from signing a free trade area agreement with the European Union. "But Russia terrorized Yanukovych then, threatened him and closed the border with Ukraine" - said the expert.
Criticism of Western Liberalism
Putin besides criticized Western countries and Western liberalism for "demonising" Russia alternatively of addressing citizens' problems and "taking care of the quality of their lives." He said that Western politicians are turning democratic procedures into a "farce" and are introducing fresh bans, suggesting that in the West it is like in the times of the Soviets.
"Unfortunately, even in the environments of educated people there is simply a deficiency of cognition of basic facts and it is inactive possible to manipulate, as Putin does" - added Rodkiewicz. In the expert's opinion, the West should respond as was done during the Cold War - solving real problems alternatively of censorship the Internet.
Sources used: "PAP"
Note: This article has been edited with the aid of Artificial Intelligence.
