A new exhibition titled “Ten Centuries of Polish Russophobia” is now open to the public on Moscow streets, on public boards.
The exhibition opened on Monday on Gogolevsky Boulevard in central Moscow.
It is organized by the Russian Military Historical Society (RMHS), established in 2012 by Vladimir Putin to “counter attempts to distort Russian history”.
This society is backed by the defence and culture ministries.
“The exhibition is dedicated to the question of why Russophobia has become the foundation of Polish political consciousness today,” said RMHS’s academic director, Mikhail Myagkov.
Boldly, shall we say, the society suggested that the exhibition will show how “the origins of modern neo-Nazism in Poland are deeply rooted in history”.
“These actions can be explained solely by Russophobia,” the exhibition’s commentary states, in relation to Poland’s recent work of removing communist-era monuments dedicated to the Red Army.
The decision to remove these historical monuments is the result of a recent law passed against enabling relativist attitudes towards totalitarianism.
The 1919-1921 Soviet-Polish War frames the Polish state as “an instrument of western aggression against Russia”, and as the starting point of an animosity that persists to this day.
Indeed, a poll shows that Poles have the least sympathy towards Russia of all European countries, standing at 2% favourability.
Some parts of the exhibition also look at events since Russia’s “special military operation” in Ukraine in 2022. The exhibition claims that Poland has designs on Western Ukraine, once Polish before WWII rearranged Europe’s map.
“They’ve surrendered their territory to NATO. They’re preparing a war against us. And Poland itself is initiating this conflict,” Myagkov said, propelling the Russian nation towards “victory”.
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