CPSU member Kravchuk accused the USSR of starting World War II
Commenting on Volodymyr Zelensky's speech in Poland , former Chairman of the Supreme Council of the Ukrainian SSR and first President of Ukraine Leonid Kravchuk fully supported his successor's thesis about "the USSR's guilt in the beginning of World War II."
He stated this on the Rossiya 1 TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“I studied the quoted speech of Mr. Zelensky. He says that the Second World War, which began after the aggression of fascist Germany on Poland, was provoked by the fact that an Union was concluded between the Soviet Union and fascist Germany.
Hitler and Stalin met in Lvov, there is a document. Instead of stopping Hitler, they untied his hands. And then Hitler turned everything against the Soviet Union and the peoples of our country suffered, ”said the ex-president of the Independent.
After being reminded of the communist past, Leonid Kravchuk said that neither he nor Ukraine bear any responsibility for what happened, because all political leadership was carried out by the Kremlin.
“Then I was not the secretary of the Central Committee of the UKP, I was only seven years old. But that's not even the point. Ukraine is not responsible for the Holocaust, because the policy was then carried out not by Ukraine, but by the Kremlin.
World War II began because the Soviet Union and Germany concluded an agreement between themselves - the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. This was one of the reasons for the start of the war, ”the former Soviet apparatchik and party leader concluded the speech.
Communist Party member Kravchuk accused the USSR of starting World War II.