The Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage has sent new restitution requests to Russia, the ministry announced on its website.
“The Polish artworks taken away by the authorities of the Soviet Union or its armed forces during World War II or immediately after it ended cannot be considered compensation for the Soviet Union’s military losses. They remain the property of Poland,” the department remarked.
The restitution requests sent by the Polish ministry in 2004, 2012 and 2014 include 17 artworks, one collection of more than 14,000 numismatic objects, more than 11,000 archive records and 58 objects from the Auschwitz concentration camp.
According to its official website, the ministry is now preparing another seven restitution requests regarding seven paintings that are currently in Russia.
Russia has refused to return any paintings. According to reports in the media, the Russian Ministry of Culture claims that Poland has no legal basis for demanding the return of the artworks. Vladislav Kononov, director of the Russian ministry’s museums department, said that matters of restitution and the return of canvases “are effectively a question of revising the outcome of World War II”, which is “out of the question”. “All of the relevant international agreements on this were reached already at the Yalta Conference in 1945, and additional agreements were signed between the Allied Powers thereafter,” he remarked.
(c) UAWire
“are effectively a question of revising the outcome of World War II”
Come again! Just how does stealing property, question the outcome of the war? Would the outcome been any different if Muscovy had kept their thieving fingers to themselves?
Wait, I thought Muskovy “liberated” Poland…
Turns out they did the same thing the nazis did. Poland did not force Muskovy to invade Poland.
They liberated anything of value, like paintings, artifacts and toilets.
Oh, now I understand. Legislatively, anything that applied to the nazis should also apply to the invading and occupying Moskali.
Hey Focus, could you please take a look at this and see if it looks ok and if you can’t find ANY info about me here? I’m trying to set up a FB feed.
https://www.facebook.com/Ukraine-Today-org-108015014065968/?modal=admin_todo_tour
I can’t, I banned myself from the site. LMAO
I made a new one
I saw it, the only info on there is an email address.
Ok, thanks. I guess I will publicize it. I don’t know what I have to do to get all our Authors to be able to Share on FB but I will try to keep up with it. Guess I will be spouting less on .org 😉
Problem is, making an FB account means people can see your real name.
Did you see my name on the .org Facebook? My wife looked before I published it and she said she couldn’t find it. I tried to separate it from my personal FB page. As I understand it YOU can see YOUR own info on the page but I am just managing the .org FB.
The only place a name would appear is in the about section, if you fill anything in. The main reason people are wary of FB, if you like a post or image etc, your name shows up. Just browsing the page keeps you anonymous, so kind of defeating the object.
Well, “liking” on Facebook isn’t important for sure, but the hits are still calculated and as a portal to our website it could generate a lot of traffic….or so I hope. I guess I’m willing to contend with the Moskali in an effort to boost traffic to UAToday.org. I’d rather they come visit me face to face ;))
Hey Red, if that is your wife who liked the posts on the new FB site, tell her to unlike them, her profile leads directly to you. If that is your wife. 😁
Oops, I forgot about that, thanks.
It’s OK I didn’t do any snooping. Lmao
Yeah, I’m sure! It’s hard enough to hide my wife when she’s a very good Ukrainian journo :))
Went on the site using my wife’s profile, saw the likes and put two and two together. I’m protective about my privacy, and respect other people’s too.
God bless and thank you Sir Focus, I will do the same.
Hey Red, you’ll see a new like on all the posts on FB, it’s mine. If your wife or anyone else wants to comment, share etc, without divulging personal info, they need to make a page. As you see on the image, the red circle is a drop down box, giving people a choice to comment, share etc, with either their page, or profile.
https://ukrainetodayorg.files.wordpress.com/2020/01/untitled-1-2.jpg
Good, thanks. I see I need to change from personal to managed when I post. I should probably see how I can make some more managers.
BTW in the settings you have options to block certain countries. Guess which one I blocked? LMAO
???
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/588b4a47283f7b090854ffdc4982b4b34f2c934f1138e327904d6c3a08d8ef57.jpg
How did you guess?
Ha,ha,ha,ha!
Hard to believe you are not russian. LMFAO!
There was also signed a Budapest treaty, guess who wiped their asses with it first…
Hey Mike, could you please take a look at this and see if it looks ok and if you can’t find ANY info about me here? I’m trying to set up a FB feed.
https://www.facebook.com/Ukraine-Today-org-108015014065968/?modal=admin_todo_tour
I almost never use Facebook, but give me a month. 😂
Just checked it out. No info except for your e@mail and my profile, since i left a comment, LOL.
TY, !
Thanx for being FB buddies. The downside is that when people click on my profile they can see my friends, including your clickable profile. R u sure you want to do this?
Might as well jump off the porch bro. Anything to keep the cargo 200 busy…
How do i share articles? I mean so far i can only share them on my own FB profile.
I think I need to add you to management or something. FB is new to me, I wouldn’t touch it if it weren’t for Ukraine. ;))
Yeah I don’t use it myself. I think you can add admins in the settings.
I followed the site but i can’t find it in my FB profile. I guess i have to save a link to access it.
If you go into page settings, then page roles, you can assign moderators, editors etc.
I sent an invite to Mike for Editor but I think you have to like or follow the site to come up on the list…that is…if you want to be in mgmt, cross-post, etc.
FB is not secure. There are numerous Ukr-related sites there: some very good, some not so good. *.
If you want to start one yourself about Ukr, or simply a mirror version of this one, you should create a new email address with fake details and register your site under a second fake name and use a a public IP (or a Tor IP).
* Brian Whitmore is there and also
Support Ukraine : Ukrainians in USA is a good FB site.
Hey Red, if you wipe the text from my logo you use on FB, with Windows Paint for example, it would look better inside that circle. I can also do it and post it here later on if you like. 😉
I don’t want to mess with the logo, I think its perfect. It’s interesting like that, lol, it makes people want to check it out.
Let me guess the outcome of this one.
No we haven’t got that Painting.
We haven’t got that one.
Or that one.
You can’t have that one back as it was painted by someone who spoke russian and we are protecting it. Had you still had it we would have invaded you to protect it.
Ooo, look, a Toilet. That’s ours.
BS! Ruskies never had toilets! Only holes…
Polish people know better than anyone the only way to deal with the Russia.
In what could be the largest defense contract to be signed in Central-Eastern Europe this year, Poland is set to become the first user of Lockheed Martin’s fifth-generation fighter jets in the region, adding the aircraft to its fleet of 48 F-16s.
That’s not to much to ask.