Poland calculating World War II damages caused by Soviet Union: Deputy foreign minister

By Ahmet Gencturk

ATHENS (AA) - The Polish deputy foreign minister revealed on Wednesday that the country has started to calculate World War II damages caused by the Soviet Union.

Compiling data in archives and libraries, researchers already started to work on a “comprehensive report on the losses incurred by Poland at the hands of the Soviet Union between 1939 and 1945,” Arkadiusz Mularczyk said in an interview with state-run PAP news agency.

“These losses were gigantic, not only in terms of material infrastructure but also because of the organized looting of works of art and culture, as well as the resources of insurance companies and banks,” he said.

Mularczyk underlined that the researchers had to “start from scratch” as the matter of Poland’s war losses could not be studied in the communist era.

Relevant information could also be found in archives in Ukraine and Belarus, which were currently difficult to access owing to the war in Ukraine and Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko’s “hostile policy toward Poland," he said.