Polish Leader Says Putin's WWII 'Lies' Aimed At Escaping International Pressure

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Polish Leader Says Putin's WWII 'Lies' Aimed At Escaping International Pressure

Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki has accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of "deliberately" lying about the start of World War II in an effort to deflect international pressure over Moscow's much more recent activities.

The statements are the latest in an ongoing diplomatic tussle over culpability for a war that followed a nonaggression pact between Hitler and Stalin and killed some 6 million Poles, in addition to tens of millions of Russians, Germans, and other Europeans.

"President Putin has lied about Poland on numerous occasions, and he has always done it deliberately," Morawiecki said in a statement quoted by AP. “It usually happens in a situation when the authorities in Moscow feel international pressure caused by its actions. And this pressure is not on the historical stage but on the modern geopolitical scene."

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