“We have always believed that this is clearly rightfully ours. If 70 countries, including those that basically did not suffer any serious losses from Germany, such as Mexico received some compensation, why shouldn’t we, who suffered gigantic losses, which effects are still felt today, receive it”, said the President of the Law and Justice (PiS) Jarosław Kaczyński during a meeting with supporters in Pruszków.

He recalled that the issue of reparations has not come up now.

“We announced it a long time ago. I announced it at the party congress right after the victory in 2015, and other people, including my brother Lech Kaczyński, took it up even earlier, because, after all, the losses of Warsaw had been calculated when my brother was its mayor’, stated Jarosław Kaczyński.

In the opinion of the leader of the Law and Justice party, years ago “work on obtaining reparations was abandoned due to a decision made by the authorities of the Soviet Union”. Now it is possible to return to this issue, because, as Jarosław Kaczyński stated, “we already have, after years of preparation, a ready-made report”, in which Poland’s losses caused by Germany’s invasion are set at 6 trillion 220 billion 609 million PLN.  After much discussion on how to calculate it that sum is the lowest amount,” said the Law and Justice president.

The leader of the ruling party announced that a propaganda campaign would be carried out on the reparations issue “in Germany and around the world”.

As part of the campaign announced by the Law and Justice party chairman, a few days ago a supplement devoted to the losses Poland during World War II was published in the American daily Chicago Tribune. It contains texts by Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, Deputy Prime Minister Piotr Gliński and the President of the Institute of National Remembrance (IPN) Karol Nawrocki. The publication was prepared by the monthly magazine “All that matters” in cooperation with the Polish National Foundation and the IPN.

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