Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki is out of his mind. He inserted an outrageous op-ed in the Telegraph on May 10 in which he demanded that the world must put an end to Putin’s “Russkiy Mir” (Russian World—an organization established by Putin in 2007) ideology or else. “Vladimir Putin once again presented to the world the mythology of the Russian victory over Nazism” on May 9, Morawiecki wrote. “He ignored the fact that while the Red Army defeated Nazi Germany, it brought slavery to many nations. The West chose to compromise with Stalin, knowing it was a deal with the devil.” (Unlike Morawiecki, Franklin Roosevelt knew that the real devil was British imperialism.)
Morawiecki claimed that Putin is worse than Hitler or Stalin. “Not only does he have deadlier weapons at his disposal, but he also has the new media at his fingertips to spread his propaganda,” he rants. “Not so long ago, Poland engaged in an information war with Russia over the genesis of the Second World War [the Poles are still trying to rewrite history—cjo]. We won; but Putin achieved his goals. He infected the internet with millions of instances of fake news
“Putin’s ‘Russkiy Mir’ ideology is the equivalent of 20th-century communism and. It is an ideology through which Russia justifies invented rights and privileges for its country. It is also the grounds for the story of ‘the special historical mission’ of the Russian people. In the name of this ideology Mariupol and dozens of Ukrainian cities were razed as it sent Russian soldiers to war, convinced them of their superiority, and encouraged them to commit inhuman war crimes—the murder, rape and torture of innocent civilians.
