During World War II commemoration celebrations, the president spoke about the Polish soldiers who died during World War II, about the heroes who defended their homeland steadfastly to the end. – They didn’t win that battle. Many of them also felt that they did not really win the war, because Poland did not completely regain its independence and sovereignty, as they dreamed of and how they fought for it – he said.

Andrzej Duda stressed that Poland is free today, thanks to the services of those who survived and who fought for this freedom until their return, and thanks to the heroism of their children, the next generation, “also present today and listed as those who are free opposite”. – The people of “Solidarity”, whom we thanked in recent days, commemorate the anniversary of the August Agreement – he emphasized.

The president stressed that “World War II was a shadow for Poland for decades. – A shadow whose remnants still linger today, because who knows what Poland would be like today and how many of us would have lived here, in this land, had we not been dangerously attacked in 1939 by the Germans, hand in hand with the Soviets, by the Nazis and Soviet communists, (…) because of their dangerous and heinous armed fraternity.

– Who knows what our country would be like today if 6 million citizens had not died then, including 3 million Polish Jews of Jewish nationality, who were brutally murdered in concentration camps, often in places of mass extermination, if they had not been victims of the Holocaust. If not for all the other Poles killed and killed on all fronts of World War II, fighting to defeat the Nazis, he continued.

As he points out, Poland then lost 5 million of its citizens who “remained outside this Poland, changed by World War II, or didn’t return to Poland, because they thought it was not free, not sovereign.”. The president stressed that “to this day in many places it is impossible to rebuild Poland as beautiful as it was before World War II”. In this context, he mentions, among other things, Warsaw, a symbol of fortitude, which – as he puts it – “Hitler wanted to erase from the map as the capital of Poland, making us, Poles, slaves at the same time.”

– Soviet Russia wanted the same thing back then, also taking revenge for their deception in 1920 and the defeat they suffered then in the war with Poland. Testimony to this revenge was the cruel and gruesome murder of Polish officers that went beyond all norms of international law, known as the Katyn massacre, was the atrocities they treated Polish citizens, deported them to the East and killed them, as it happened. during the hunt for Augustow – said the president.