Russo-Polish row over who started WW2

The Russian ambassador seems to have forgotten that it was the Russians and the Germans that were responsible for starting the war. Second, the Russian ambassador also seems to have forgotten that it was the Stalinist government that was responsible for the war crimes against Poland in regards to the Katyn massacre. Yet, it was the Polish military under the auspices of the British that helped to fight the Nazis.

Russian ambassador acted on instruction form his boss. Whatever or not he was right or factual has no bearing on this political operation..

Among Poland's pundits and top commentators there seems ot be a rough consensus that the Russian ambassador's seemingly flippant remarks were part of a well-planned provocation. Putin could expect Poles to react vigorously and roll out their russophobic artillery, playing right into his hands. He will be able to say in future about any Polish plan, project or desire to negotiate in some international row such as Ukraine that Poles are zoological russophobes, obsessed about the past ("lets leave history to hsitorians and move forward!") and therefore lack credibiltiy. The broader implicaton is that if Russia weeds ISIS out of Syria and contributes to stopping or slowing the flow of refugees, Putin will become an international "hero" and "peace-maker" of sorts and no-one imposes sanctions on a hero. Also hardly anyone except the Ukrainians, Baltics and Poles will remember Putin's anti-Ukrainian aggression, bald-faced lies and destabilising machinations. Do you agree?

It is certainly a possibility.