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If asked, which country's president is the most versatile? I believe that many people will definitely choose Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Indeed, the heavens can drive fighter jets, the ground can drive land combat vehicles, and the sea can also drive nuclear submarines. Whether it is judo or taekwondo, there are very few people who can be his opponents, and there are also KGB birth blessings. In short, there is no second president in the world like Putin.
In addition, Putin is also known as the "tough man Putin" by the world, because whether it is to fight against oligarchs who disrupt the country's economy and politics, or to govern the country and fight terrorism, he has always been tough, courageous and strategic, and can always solve all thorny problems in a complex political environment. Therefore, he is not only the pride of Russians, but also the idol of many people.
However, no one expected that such a tough president would suddenly kneel down in public and admit his mistake when visiting Poland.
First, Poland bullied Russia.
Speaking of which, although Poland lives side by side with Russia, the old and new hatred between Poland and Russia can be traced back hundreds of years.
At that time, Russia was still oppressed by the Golden Horde. In order to change the world, the Russians were all soldiers and threw themselves into the war with the Golden Horde.
Unexpectedly, Poland took advantage of the fire and looting, constantly invading the Russian border and encroaching on their land. By the 16th century, after Poland and Lithuania had become allies, they had become more powerful and soon became one of the most powerful countries in Eastern Europe.
Poland, a strong man, is bent on taking Russia into its pockets. So they not only clashed with Russia many times, but also sent agents to Russia to inherit the throne many times in an attempt to control the political situation in Russia.
However, the Russians have never yielded to the strong, so the agents sent by Poland have been executed by them. The enraged Poles grabbed their sticks and went straight to war with Russia, ready to knock them to the ground and completely annex Russia.
Although Russia fought against the Polish Army, it suffered numerous casualties and heavy losses. But they did not insult the title of fighting nation and always insisted on fighting. Through countless fierce battles, the Russians finally crushed the Poles' ambitions to dominate Eastern Europe. As a result, the two countries have also formed a feud.
Second, Soviet Russia bullied Poland.
With the rise of the Romanov dynasty, Russia's economy and military prosperity and strength were unprecedented. At the end of the 17th century, the Romanov dynasty continued to encroach on the lands of Poland and the Ottoman Turkish Empire. At that time, Poland's Kiev and the east bank of the Dnieper River had already fallen into the pockets of the Russians.
It can really be described as "thirty years of Hedong, forty years of Hexi". While Russia is rising, Poland is declining. At this time, Poland was in serious internal turmoil due to corruption and royal power struggles. In order to compete for power, some princes and nobles colluded with foreign countries to deal with their own political enemies. As a result of this open and covert struggle, the Polish civil war continued and the government was rendered ineffective. Coupled with collusion with foreign countries, it is tantamount to luring wolves into the house. As a result, neighboring countries launched wars of aggression against Poland, and the one who fought the most fiercely against Poland was Russia.
After decades of war, Poland's population has not only plummeted, but its economy is on the verge of collapse. The great powers of Eastern Europe, which were once in the ascendancy, have reached a precarious point. The Russians dealt the final blow to Poland, and they united Prussia and Austria to divide Poland among the three countries after the capture of the Polish capital.
During the Napoleonic period, the Poles, who had never forgotten the restoration of the country, established the Principality of Warsaw with the help of Napoleon's power. Unfortunately, with the defeat of Napoleon, the Duchy of Warsaw was once again divided between the three kingdoms of Russia and Europe. This time, Russia divided most of Poland's land.
In 1917, Russia established Soviet power and launched a revolutionary war to overthrow the Tsarist rule, and for a time the civil war was raging.
Poland saw the opportunity and immediately launched a war and won the victory. The nascent Soviet power, busy with civil war, was forced by Poland to sign a treaty with Poland, agreeing to cede Western Belarus and Western Ukraine to Poland, and Poland was able to regain its country again.
In 1939, the German Nazis launched a blitzkrieg against Poland. Despite the urgency of the situation and the pressure, Poland never asked for help from its nearest neighbor, the Soviet Union, but chose to turn to Britain and the United States.
At that time, the Soviet Union feared that the German Nazis would drive into the Soviet Union after destroying Poland. So he went to Britain and the United States, hoping that they would persuade Poland to let the Red Army pass through Poland and fight the German Nazis.
However, because the lessons of history were so profound, Poland did not accede to this request. After all, in their view, they were defeated by the Germans and may have lost only some of their territory. But the Soviet Union borrowed Poland, and Poland was likely to fall again.
Unfortunately, the Poles thought too simply. Seeing that the Soviet Union could not enter the country by road, it formed an alliance with the German Nazis and jointly dealt with Poland. The two countries occupied all of Poland in just 10 days, and Poland was then split in two, with the German Nazis taking the western part of Poland and the Soviets taking the eastern part of Poland.
In this way, the third subjugation of Poland, which had only recently been established, was counted on the head of the Soviet Union by poles, and from then on, the hatred between the two countries almost reached the point of "two countries do not marry".
The horrific actions of the former Soviet Union.
After Poland's defeat, more than 40,000 Polish prisoners of war once caused great headaches to the Russian top brass.
On the one hand, the Soviet Union at that time was not in a good economic situation because it was still in the war. More than 40,000 Polish prisoners of war had to eat and drink, even the worst food, for the Soviet Union, the pressure was also very high, so there were often "supply cuts", which made the prisoners complain and repeatedly launched a collective hunger strike in protest.
On the other hand, polish prisoners of war, because they had long been full of hatred for the Soviet Union, not only did they not have a decadent atmosphere after being captured, but they inspired their determination to restore their country and avenge their country. Therefore, during the period of detention, there have been many escapes, and even collective escapes.
What to do with these Polish prisoners of war became a big problem for the Soviet Union.
Stalin believed that Poland was already in the bag, so the presence of those prisoners of war was a time bomb. After all, one day they are free, they will pose a great threat and damage to the Soviet Union in order to restore the country. Therefore, these unfavorable factors should be eliminated physically.
So the Soviet Union did a terrible thing. They were screened and released most of the soldiers, while Polish officials, generals and elites were sent in batches to the Katyn Forest, 15 kilometres from Smososk, for execution and buried on the spot.
According to the secret Soviet archives that were later released, as many as 21,857 Polish prisoners of war were shot in the Katyn massacre, including doctors, engineers, teachers, lawyers and other social elites.
Fourth, the shameless cover-up of Britain and the United States.
As the Soviet-German war progressed, the Soviet Union and Germany had become sworn enemies. The Polish government-in-exile became an ally of Germany. At that time, both the Polish government-in-exile and the relevant German leaders had asked Stalin about the whereabouts of Polish prisoners of war. At first, Stalin simply replied to them that they had long since been released. Later, they blamed the Germans, saying that they had killed the prisoners of war.
Where have the people who disappeared out of thin air gone? Unable to find evidence, the weak Polish government-in-exile could only fail.
Fast forward to 1943, when Mososk was occupied by the Germans.
In order to preserve the fruits of victory, the Germans drove the captured laborers to dig up the fortifications in the Katyn Forest. Before the work could take long, the workers dug up a large number of corpses in military uniforms.
After a meticulous examination of the remains, experts determined that they all died in the same massacre. By virtue of their clothes, it was certain that most of them were Polish officers.
When the German Fuehrer Hitler learned of this, he was overjoyed and immediately spread the news to the whole world, and also took the captured American and British prisoners to the Katyn Forest to visit the scene.
The Germans told them that the densely packed bodies in the pits had all been done by their allies, the Soviet Union.
Although the American and British prisoners of war did not want what the Germans said to be true, judging by the extent of the decay of the remains, they could be sure that the time of their deaths was definitely earlier than the time when the Germans occupied Smosussk.
Later, some of the American prisoners of war gave a detailed report to the United States on what they had seen and heard, and at the end of the report, he wrote: "The Germans' allegations against the murderers of the Katyn Forest massacre are, in essence, correct. ”
However, since Britain and the United States were allies of the Soviet Union, and the war had reached its most stalemate time. Britain and the United States also needed to use the power of the Soviet Union to defeat Germany together. Therefore, Britain and the United States invariably covered up the truth for the Soviet Union and became accomplices of the Soviet Union.
Moreover, they assured the Soviets that they would not allow the Red Cross or other organizations to conduct investigations in the German-ruled areas. Even British Prime Minister Winston Churchill has said in public that such an investigation is a deception. Because the results of the investigation will only be given by the Reign of Terror.
US President Roosevelt also said with red teeth that this kind of heinous tragedy can only be done by the German fascists.
After the end of World War II, Germany was defeated. When Nazi war criminals were being interrogated militarily, the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg deliberately avoided the interrogation of the Katyn incident, thus making the Katyn incident a mysterious and unsolved case.
As for the Polish government-in-exile, since all countries in the world recognize it as legitimate government. The Soviet Union simply bought people's hearts and minds and took the initiative to help the Poles achieve restoration. Naturally, the Poles were grateful to the Soviet Union and became active supporters of the Soviet regime.
V. Putin's earth-shattering knees.
At the end of the 1990s, the collapse of the Soviet Union had become a general trend, and when soviet fuehry Gorbachev handed over the presidential power to Yeltsin, he half-concealed that the Katyn massacre did have a little to do with the Soviet Union.
The vague statements once again provoked the Polish government to pursue the questioning. After Yeltsin came to power, because he did not want to carry the pot, he simply pushed all the responsibility to the former Soviet Union. He gave the secret archives of the Katyn massacre to Poland, so that the katyn massacre was finally revealed.
Only then did the Poles discover that for many years, they had actually confessed to being thieves as their fathers, and suddenly thousands of hatreds surged into their hearts. The contradictions and hatred between russia and Russia have thus become deeper.
On April 7, 2010, the recently appointed Putin led a Russian delegation to Poland.
The purpose of their visit was mainly to participate in the commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the Katyn massacre. During the mourning ceremony, Putin suddenly knelt on his right knees, gradually lowered his head, and gently placed a glass jar on the steps of the monument.
As the president of a powerful country, as a world strongman, Putin made such a gesture at this time, which immediately shocked the world. Although he did not apologize verbally, his actions have already released great goodwill, a signal that he hopes to resolve the blood feud between them and gain Polish understanding.
The media have commented: "On behalf of the Russian people, Putin made a more sincere reflection on the Katyn massacre. ”
This is Putin!
Perhaps in the eyes of others, Putin is an aggressor and has made relations with Western countries very tense. However, since coming to power, Putin has actually been working hard to seek regional stability and ensure Russia's security. And his approach has also won the support of the Russians and the affirmation of the truly peace-loving people. It's just that some Western countries don't want to see Russia strong, so they constantly play up Russia's threat and constantly create tension. This has also enabled NATO to successfully expand eastward five times, and the western countries have done so that Putin will kneel down, thus forcing Russia to the point where there is no way to retreat.
The kneeling that Putin once had was the russian posture of standing. Perhaps Russia's military operation this time is also to maintain standing. May all countries in the world always be able to maintain a standing posture, and may the world be at peace forever!