PO made friendly relations with Russia its political banner in the period 2007-2014 and recognized that far-reaching submission is our best ticket to build a position in the EU – said Prof. Thursday on TVP Info. Sławomir Cenckiewicz, former head of the State Commission for Investigation of Russian Influence.
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““Only an irresponsible person could say that.”
Prof. In the program ‘In open cards’, Cenckiewicz was asked by Małgorzata Raczyńska-Weinsberg about, among other things, the Russian influence in Poland after 1989.
In a sense, we are doomed to fight these influences and the continued vigilance of the Polish state, which in my opinion was lacking in the interwar period and after 1989.
– he said. Prof. Cenckiewicz added that the State Commission for Investigating Russian Influence on the Internal Security of the Republic of Poland, which he chaired until the end of November, was a belated attempt to demonstrate the influence of the Russian Federation.
The new majority began by effectively eliminating the committee tasked with investigating Russian influence
– he emphasized. In this context, he referred to the words of KO’s Borys Budka, who stated that the dismissal of the members of the committee investigating Russian influence was “the day of the end of these influences”.
Only an irresponsible person can say that. The problem is historical, present and future
– Cenckiewicz noticed.
Agreement between SKW and FSB
As an expression of Russian influence in the years 2007-2015, he mentioned the 2013 agreement between the SKW and the FSB, which, as he recalled, contained a provision on the provision of information to Russia on the activities of third countries against Russia . . Prof. Cenckiewicz referred to the statements of the former head of the Ministry of National Defense, Tomasz Siemoniak.
The assumption that we should only contact our Democratic friends is simply absurd; when it comes to Poland’s interests, you can even talk to the devil
– said Tomasz Siemoniak, vice-chairman of PO, when asked on December 5 on RMF FM whether the agreement between SKW and FSB was a mistake. Cenckiewicz noted that “a positive element of this statement is the recognition of the FSB as a devil, and in its time the SKW did not consider the FSB as a devil, but as the so-called partnership service. He added that Siemoniak is also wrong to link the 2013 agreement to the withdrawal of Polish troops from Afghanistan. As he noted, this issue is not mentioned in the terms of the agreement, because, as he recalled, it was an issue between NATO countries, especially regarding US assistance to Poland in the withdrawal operation.
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According to Cenckiewicz: “The Civic Platform made friendly relations with Russia its political banner in the period 2007-2014, recognizing that far-reaching submission is our best ticket to building a position in the European Union“. As he added, after 1989 “There was no such pro-Russian party in Poland as POHe emphasized that his representatives were “following a pro-Russian course” on all major issues. Citing information from Russian media, he said that the resignation of the committee members was interpreted in Russia as a “gesture of goodwill.”
Resignation of members of the Committee on Russian Influence
On November 29, the Sejm dismissed eight members of the State Commission for investigating Russian influence on Poland’s internal security in the period 2007-2022. Earlier in the day, the Committee on Russian Influence presented a “partial report” covering three months of its work and presented recommendations that Donald Tusk, Jacek Cichocki, Bogdan Klich, Tomasz Siemoniak and Bartłomiej Sienkiewicz should not be entrusted with public positions responsible for the stands. safety thanks to the recognition in 2010-2014 of the Russian FSB for partner service.
As Prof. Sławomir Cenckiewicz said, these recommendations are “not a judgment”, but should serve the parliamentarians and indicate which “people did not fulfill their obligations when they supervised and controlled the secret services.” He noted that an example of incompetence is the lack of knowledge of the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Bartłomiej Sienkiewicz, about the cooperation between the Military Counterintelligence Service and the FSB; he apparently learned this from the FSB government website. Russian Federation.
I wouldn’t want someone like that to influence the services
– said Prof. Slawomir Cenckiewicz.
Announcements of the liquidation of the Institute of National Remembrance
Referring to the announcement of the liquidation of the Institute of National Remembrance by KO and its coalition partners, he emphasized that this institution plays a special role in demonstrating the continuity of Russian influence in Poland.
Today, defending the Secret Service of the Polish People’s Republic and the Secret Services of the Polish People’s Republic means defending Soviet and post-Soviet influence. The demand for the liquidation of the Institute for National Remembrance is part of the process of liquidating the commission
– he noted. According to him, the possible restoration of pension rights to the Security Service indicates that “there was a transfer of the post-communist, militia-military electorate of the Security Service from the post-communist left to the Civic Platform”, making this formation a “hostage” of these circles. He also pointed out the threat of destruction of the IPN’s archival documents, but he hoped, as he added, that such actions would not take place.
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Source: wPolityce