Commemoration ceremony a success for Poland and Europe

The daily Gazeta Wyborcza calls the commemoration of the 70th anniversary of World War II a "success for Poland and Europe": "Europe's political leaders have not looked elsewhere for someone to blame but have shouldered the responsibility themselves. ... German Chancellor [Angela] Merkel affirmed Germany would not avoid taking blame for the outbreak of World War II. ... [Russian] Prime Minister Vladimir Putin condemned the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. Representatives of the former anti-Hitler coalition criticised the treatment of the Third Reich that led to the disgrace of Munich [with the Munich Agreement]. [Polish Prime Minister Donald] Tusk reminded us that the National Socialists shot not only Polish elites in Piaśnica [in northeast Poland], but also Germans, and that Soviet soldiers who fell in the capture of Gdańsk lie in a graveyard near his parents' house. They were not able to bring freedom to Poland, he said, because they had none themselves."

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