Poland has decided to invite the leaders of the EU on may 8
Poland has decided to invite the leaders of the EU on may 8. the head of Poland Bronislaw Komorowski plans to mark the 70th anniversary of the end of the European Union in the Second world war, inviting European leaders may 8, on developments in Poland on Westerplatte, where 1 September 1939 began world war II.? Date 8 may in Russia since Soviet times? It is a day of triumph. Not all the peoples of Europe this triumph brought freedom. Excellent location for such a pan-European reflection must become Westerplatte, a symbol of the beginning of the Second world war?,? Said Komorowski, whose words are quoted by Gazeta Wyborcza, RIA? News?. according to the publication, head of Poland will be invited to Westerplatte all leaders of the countries-EU members. Preliminary dialogues in European capitals such information has already taken place, emphasizes Gazeta Wyborcza. Westerplatte at the present time is a memorial complex dedicated to the memory of Polish soldiers who died in the beginning of the Second world war. Westerplatte? This is a part of the Vistula spit at the mouth of the Dead Vistula, whose name is of Dutch origin (Westerplatte? Western sandbank). In 1924, the decision of the League of Nations district Westerplatte was transferred to Poland to create a military transit depot with the garrison, which became operational in 1926. In this place on 1 September 1939 in 04. 45 am volleys German battleship? Schleswig-Holstein? Was fired on the Polish garrison that was the beginning of the Second world war. The heroic defense of 182 Defenders of the garrison under the command of major Henryk Sucharski became a symbol of Polish resistance to the Nazi invaders. In the Central part of Westerplatte is a symbolic cemetery of the Defenders of the garrison. In October of 1966, there was a Monument to the Defenders of the Coast, dedicated to the victims of war and all the places where they were killed by Polish soldiers and sailors. Monument to a height of 47 meters and it is made artificially hill (22, 5 feet tall), from which the panorama of gda?sk and the Gda?sk Bay. Before Tuesday, the head of the Russian presidential administration Sergei Ivanov arrived in Poland to participate in the events dedicated to the 70th anniversary of the liberation army of the Soviet Union concentration camps? Auschwitz-Birkenau? Very close to the Polish town of Oswiecim. Tuesday in Poland, within the former Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau, near the town of Auschwitz, there will be a solemn event dedicated to the 70-th anniversary of the liberation of the camp by Soviet troops. They will be involved about 300 former inmates And policymakers from nearly 40 countries. A wide-ranging discussion before the party caused the message of the head of the foreign Ministry of Poland Grzegorz Schetyna about the fact that Auschwitz-Birkenau was liberated by the Ukrainians. In response to this, the MPs of the state Duma expressed harsh criticism of the Polish Minister. And the Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation said that his words were illiterate and are a mockery of history. Foreign Minister S. Lavrov Century called blasphemous and cynical statements Polish colleagues.
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