Germany has apologised to Poland for the 2nd World War and the occupation several times, but Russia has so far declined to do it. Will Russia’s Prime Minister Vladimir Putin do it today, on the 70th anniversary of the beginning of WWII?

In the secret protocols of the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, German dictator Adolf Hitler and Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin divided Europe between the two powers, and Poland was one of the countries to lose independence to nazis and Soviets. On 1st September, 1939, Germany attacked Poland from west and on 17th September, Soviet Union from the east.

Germany has said sorry — many times — and Angela Merkel, the Chancellor, will do so again in Poland today. Russia has not.

Putin will have the chance to make amends, as the Polish press has laconically noted, but to judge by the barrage of outright propaganda and dubious historical discoveries coming out of Moscow over the past three weeks, such a gesture seems unlikely, The Times reports.

He has promised, however, to say something “very personal” and he seems ready, in subsequent talks with Donald Tusk, the Polish Prime Minister, to discuss the 1940 Katyn massacre of Polish officers and intellectuals. The killing was carried out by Soviet units but Moscow fiercely denied it for many decades and now simply prefers not to talk about the matter.

However, only in June this year, Russia’s Ministry of Defence said that the eruption of the 2nd World War was Poland’s fault, because “Poland refused to give in to Hitler’s demands to give up some of its territory to the fascists”.

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