As a former Soviet-occupied East-European nations we do not agree to EU decisions to activate sanctions towards Poland. Polish people have the right to independently desovietize and undertake their own court system, established and manned under Soviet Occupation.

Photo: Soviet commander on downed Polish warplane (Soviet Army central newspaper "Krasnaja Zvezda", September 1939).

- On 1.03.2018 the European Parliament voted for activation the Article 7(1) TEU against Poland (resolution (2018/2541 RSP)).

- On 2.07.2018 the European Commission has launched an infringement procedure, asking Poland to abolish changes made to the Polish Supreme Court (Press-release IP-18-4341).

79 years ago – 17.09.1939 in 5 morning the Soviet Union occupational army, followed Nazi-Soviet secret pact, started invading the independent state of Poland. So the Soviet Union together with Nazi Germany started the Second World War. Followed the invasion, Soviet forces herded around 1.25 million Polish people into cattle trucks and sent to the labor camps of the Arctic or the barren steppes of Kazakhstan. For the Soviet occupants the question raised, what to do with left Polish prisoners of war - 14 700 officers and 11 000 intellectuals. Under written order of the highest Soviet leadership (Stalin, Molotov, Voroshilov, Mikoyan, Kalinin, Kaganovich) all they were ordered to shot dead, results recognized nowadays as a Katyn Massacre.

Later the war was raised between then-allies Soviet Union and Nazi Germany. On 1943 the Katyn massacre was discovered by then-occupied Nazis. Soviet new allies didn’t want to believe that, publicly accused Nazis to commit the massacre. The British government, including Churchill, privately assumed that the USSR was guilty, but moved harshly to suppress anybody who said so in public. When the eccentric poet Count Potocki de Montalk sold his own Katyn Manifesto around London, he was immediately arrested and imprisoned. In the US, where President Roosevelt genuinely believed Katyn was a German crime, reports demonstrating Soviet guilt were being suppressed as late as 1945 (The Guardian 17.04.2010).

Unlike the Germany, who was suppressed from Poland to the end of the WW2, the Soviet occupation lasted following 48 years until 1993. In 1992, after fall of the Soviet Union, the Russian President Boriss Jeltsin traveled to Warssaw and handed the Stalin’s unambiguous order document to shoot the Poles to Polish President Lech Walesa.

So, at the end, the occupation was over. Why again suppress the truth and ask Polish people to retain the unreliable court system, established and manned under the Soviet occupation?