I have a longtime friend Pole. Funny and sensible, at different times, a deputy of the Polish Sejm, a journalist, political scientist, professor and even a political prisoner. For three years he managed to stay in a Polish prison under investigation on charges of espionage in favor of Russia and China. What such a journalist and political scientist can spy, investigators have not explained. Moreover, the idiot that by chance, the conservative PiS revolution (the ruling party Law and Justice) and the Kaczynski twins had been led by Polish counterintelligence for several years, someone Poganovsky had already been expelled from service. The case in court is still going on, although they released a friend on bail, thank God.
Why this passage? The crooked mirror into which long-suffering Poland has fallen today (not the political class, namely Poland - the Poles) is rapidly distorting not only the Polish public consciousness, but also penetrates the minds of the rest of old Europe in the open borders of the Schengen world, striking them with its metastases, like a cancerous tumor.
Right after the important Holocaust Remembrance Day in Jerusalem, where the Polish President Duda did not go with scandal, Kiksanul, his spiritual father Yaroslav Kaczynski in the German edition Bild made a provocative statement on reparations for Poland based on WWII results not only from Germany, but also from Russia. Like, these also "harmed" the vulnerable Polish soul comrade. Kachinsky.
Nothing that since December (!) 1945, the USSR began to actively restore Poland, which was destroyed by 70% by the Nazis - and this despite the fact that the European part of the Soviet country itself was in great need of restoration. The Germans-occupied regions of Soviet Ukraine and Soviet Belarus were 90% infrastructurally destroyed (!). Perhaps this was an erroneous decision of the Soviet leadership, but by the beginning of the 1950s. all of Poland was practically restored, and next to the newly rebuilt Old Town of Warsaw, the Stalinist skyscraper of great friendship grew. During the time of the Polish People’s Republic, a large plaque hung on the gates of the new Old Town with words of gratitude from the Poles to the Russian brothers.
Everything did not even change in the late 1980s with the Solidarity trade union in the northern shipyards (by the way, they have not been around for a long time, and the new Poland no longer builds ships). The bifurcation point of the final metamorphosis of Polish political consciousness was the quiet conservative revolution of 2015, when parliamentary and presidential elections were held in Poland for several months. The “Law and Justice” of the Kaczynski brothers filled the entire political landscape like jelly. Under the strict guidance and accurate calculation of American technologists, Poland self-plunged into the darkness of centuries.
Neither the good past of the good half of Polish politicians nor participation in European integration from the EU to the Schengen zone helped.
Actually, the speech of Yaroslav Kaczynski in German in a German newspaper was primarily addressed to the Polish inhabitants on the eve of the upcoming presidential election. The fact is that one of the trends of the beginning of the election campaign is a sharp and well-founded criticism of the current government and President Duda personally of the inability to ensure the financial content of social programs and projects. Warsaw, to put it mildly, has tense relations with the EU, and it is already clear that there will be no subsidies from Brussels, and the new American curators do not even want to hear about a cash infusion into the Polish social budget.
The Poles, led by Duda, in order to please Trump, even took up a few million dollars for the people's money to build a new military base for NATO (read: American) purposes. But the prospect of a social budget deficit next year is more than real. Here Kaczynski bears nonsense in the German media in the hope of confusing the Polish voter, they say, we will receive money from the Germans and Russians.
Such a statement by the spiritual leader of the current Polish government could not remain without the reaction of the Russian ambassador to Germany, Sergei Nechaev. In an interview with Märkische Oderzeitung, the ambassador in a restrained diplomatic manner stated that “on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp by the Red Army, the world recalls the horrors of fascism and the heroism of the Soviet soldier. But the Polish leadership is writing its own story. ”
Just the other day, in the same German newspaper, the Polish ambassador to Germany, the former Polish Komsomolets and PiS nominee Andrzej Psilebsky published an entire article entitled “The war didn’t start in 1941”, where he struck another bottom of falsification of historical truth and desecration of the memory of Soviet heroes who defeated fascism and saved the Polish people.
In a nutshell: the Polish diplomat categorically declared, echoing his party boss again in German in a German newspaper, that “the world war did not end for the Poles in 1945, and the allies played a decisive role in the victory over Germany. The USSR, in turn, received the greatest benefits following the war and occupied Ukraine, the Baltic states and Belarus. ” And of course, the conclusion: "Russia continues to pose a threat to security and peace in Europe."
As the special representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, commenting on an article by the Polish ambassador in the German media, “statements that the Soviet Union occupied itself, and that is how they can be qualified, is an indicator that Warsaw (I'm not talking about Poland, Poland is the Polish people, historians, experts), the official Warsaw played too much. This frank lie is now presented as some historical facts. “The fact that the Red Army did not liberate Warsaw is a lie, that the USSR occupied Ukraine and Belarus is not just a lie, it is an absurd lie.”
Why the Polish diplomat is trying to outdo Yaroslav Kaczynski in the absurdity of the theses regarding widely known historical facts is an understandable question for the Polish expert community. Today's Poland is on the verge of totalitarianism itself and a similar “licking” of the leader is the usual practice of a political opportunist, like Przilebsky himself. Another thing is important here.
Punching another bottom, albeit for highly specialized election purposes, Polish functionaries open the Pandora’s box even wider, bringing it closer again, as in 1934-1938. of the last century, a continental conflict that quickly turned into a world war. Does Brussels understand this? How long will such Poland linger in the EU? And finally, what does Poland do in the Schengen agreement? Questions are rhetorical.
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