Poland has been a target of both ill-founded accusations that exploit the history of World War II and unfair interpretations of the relations between the Poles and the Jews for quite a while now. Every year sees wartime Poland being described in international media as Nazi Germany’s accomplice in the Holocaust.

However, in a recent piece from the New Yorker, its author Masha Gessen goes far beyond anything we have read or heard before. The op-ed seems to fit into a wider trend, one that deserves a closer look.