Zakharova reacted to Poland's statement about its intention to receive reparations from Russia

It was the Soviet Union during the Second World War, despite the fact that it "bled and suffered from hunger," helped Poland, and then restored Warsaw. This was stated by the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, commenting on reports of Poland's intentions to demand reparations from Russia.

The diplomat recalled on the air of Sputnik radio station that in 1945 an agreement was signed to provide Poland with loans in the amount of 50 million rubles and an additional $ 10 million for the needs of foreign trade. In addition, Zakharova stressed, the Soviet republics supplied Poland coal, kerosene, motor oil, salt, tea, meat, textile raw materials, bread, sugar, sunflower oil, seeds for sowing.

"Remember what those years were like, 1945. If we're talking about February, it's a couple of months before Victories. These were still bloody battles, but Victory was only in thoughts and plans, and the restoration of the Soviet Union was still in dreams. Despite the fact that the country is bleeding, suffering from hunger, cold, it is destroyed, families are not connected, Poland receives this assistance for its own reconstruction," the official representative of the Foreign Ministry said.

"How Warsaw was restored, I think you can't tell on the radio, you have to see it. It is necessary to take and see what Warsaw was like at the time of the end of World War II and what it became in 5-10 years. And the Soviet Union did it too," Zakharova pointed out.

At the same time, the diplomat continued, Poland is talking about reparations when it itself participated in the partition of Czechoslovakia.

"For example, I think that it is possible to remember about the intervention. You can remember a lot of things. Sergiev Posad remembers the siege very well. You come to the [Trinity-Sergius] Lavra, they tell a lot based on facts and events about those times," the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry noted.

According to Zakharova, those who make such statements on the part of Poland should always talk about the facts of the Soviet Union's assistance so that "they just remember their history — not ours, [but] their own."

"We never told them about it ourselves. Never reproached with a piece of bread, nor with energy resources, nor with coal. But we are talking when these people, I don't even know what to call them, are just making up inadequate stories about how they were allegedly bullied," the diplomat stated.

As previously reported, the Financial Times newspaper informed that Poland is preparing a lawsuit against Russia for the damage allegedly caused during the period of the Polish People's Republic, when the country was an ally of the USSR.