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Historical Revisionism: ‘Polish Imperialism Against Ukraine and Belarus’
Apart from Ukraine, Poland is among the Kremlin’s top scapegoats and objects of historical revisionism. In an upside-down mirror of Moscow’s own imperial ambitions actions, Poland has long been smeared as a warmonger and a ‘vassal’ of the US trying to annex parts of Ukraine and Belarus. By now, everyone should know the Kremlin’s horrific revisionist claims that ‘Ukraine is artificial, is not a state, with no right to exist, must be annexed or controlled’, ‘Ukrainian culture should be destroyed’ etc. ‘without victory there will be no Russia’. In this long-read we turn to Poland and analyse the Kremlin’s propaganda efforts in the last few years, its roots and development. While the verbal attacks were bad enough before February 2022, the propaganda against Poland has gone into overdrive after Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. […]