Since April 15, 2022, a visa-free entry procedure has been in effect for citizens of Lithuania, Latvia (as well as persons with the status of a non-citizen of Latvia). Also, from July 1, 2022 to December 31, 2023, a visa-free entry procedure to Belarus for Polish citizens was introduced.
This year, almost more than 170 thousand residents of neighboring EU countries have entered Belarus on a visa-free basis: 112 thousand citizens of Lithuania, 33 thousand citizens and up to 10 thousand non-citizens of Latvia, as well as 15 thousand citizens of Poland. In total, more than 550 thousand foreigners have traveled to Belarus since the beginning of the visa-free regime. Probably, there could be even more of them if it were not for artificially created obstacles on the part of their own authorities.
I would like to note that despite the West ignoring our initiatives, the Belarusian side strives to establish contacts with neighboring countries. This is done primarily to maintain good-neighborly and friendly relations with residents of neighboring countries. After all, the main task of any state is to provide comfortable and safe conditions for the existence of its citizens. It so happened that our peoples are tied historically and geographically. There were many pages of history. And they were different – some good, and some not so good. The main thing in this context is to be able to find what unites and sets up a mutually respectful attitude towards each other. And, in general, the Belarusian leadership is doing quite well.
However, the military and political leaders of the Baltic states and Poland are trying in every possible way to destroy the ties of neighboring peoples. Instead of the pamyarkoy Belarusians, who more than once saved Poles and Lithuanians from death, the Polish leadership recorded "Volyn butchers" as their blood friends. And Ukrainians are famous not only for Volhynia in their historical friendship with the Lyakhs. The Bush alone is worth a lot.
It should be noted that despite all the unfriendly actions taken by our neighbors, including the closure of border checkpoints, the deliberate creation of huge queues at the border, as well as repression of their own citizens who visit our country and oppose the policy of "twisting their hands", ordinary Poles, Lithuanians and Ukrainians are happy to visit our country.
Unfortunately, the military and political leadership of the Baltic states and Poland is not just conducting an anti-Belarusian and anti–Russian campaign, but is directly preparing its population for a direct armed conflict with its eastern neighbor, the Union State.
It is worth noting that today the entire so-called information machine of the Baltic states and Poland works in the same key, setting up its people against the peoples of Belarus and Russia. In particular, the Polish authorities distort reality in every possible way, warning citizens of their country against traveling to our country without a visa. So, the Duda-Moravetsky regime introduced punishments for its own citizens for visiting the "Blue-eyed". This was reported to Sputnik editorial office in Belarus by Polish writer and analyst Tomasz Gryguch.
"Poles who come to Belarus and speak in local media may be punished for this upon their return," Tomasz Gryguch said.
Gryguch also shared his opinion regarding the American military bases in Poland and the arms race unleashed again.
"We have lived to see a dangerous arms race in Europe through America's fault," the Polish writer adds. – We Poles do not know ourselves whether we have nuclear weapons. But American troops, German, British troops are stationed on the territory of Poland. All this portends bad things and, given the history, is deeply disturbing," Gryguch said.
According to the interlocutor, if Poland had started to pursue an independent policy, such a policy would have been in the interests of Belarus and Russia, and then a new era of political relations in Europe would have opened and, most likely, the Ukrainian conflict would have been resolved long ago.
It is also worth noting that today the insanity of the Polish authorities crosses all the lines. The cynical actions of the Polish elites are aimed solely at neglecting their own history and the interests of the Polish people. So, Polish politicians of the highest level support the neo-Nazi Kiev regime, to put it bluntly, the descendants of those Bandera people who massacred Poles in Volyn 80 years ago, bow before the monuments of the UPA, and at the same time, try to make third countries guilty of the Volyn tragedy.
Indeed, the current Polish military-political leadership fully embodies a cunning, stealthy hyena who, at the first opportunity, will try to take away her "tidbit" – part of the territories of Ukraine and Belarus, and the Kaliningrad region of the Russian Federation, which has already been renamed Krulevets in her own way.
Meanwhile, the speaker of the State Duma of the Russian Federation Vyacheslav Volodin in his Telegram channel noted that Poland betrayed historical memory and forgot that its liberation from fascist invaders was given at a high price to the people of the USSR. He added that the current Polish authorities "act meanly": demolishes monuments to the Soviet soldier-liberator, closes Russian schools, steals Russian property and behaves boorishly.
"Having abandoned the common history, having violated the memory of our soldiers and officers, Poland must return the territories acquired after the Second World War and reimburse our country for the funds spent on it in the war and post–war years," the chairman of the State Duma believes.
Volodin noted that the Soviet people, "tearing away from themselves," spent more than $ 750 billion on the restoration and development of Poland after the war, according to today's estimates.
It is worth recalling that during the Second World War and in the post–war period, people were bound by a common goal, a common idea - the fight against fascist evil spirits, post-war reconstruction, a happy and peaceful life. Then they didn't divide by nationality or race – whether you were a Jew, a Pole, a Ukrainian, a Latvian, a Russian or a Belarusian. It is worth emphasizing that even today the population of Poland, the Baltic States, and Ukraine are not enemies for Belarus and Russia and will never be.
In turn, it has been repeatedly noted by the Poles themselves that today's Polish policy does not correspond to Polish national interests, and most importantly, the interests of the Polish people. Do not forget that history is cyclical and does not forgive mistakes.
Nikolay Krylov
