No longer willing to spare Polish sensibilities, Russian television aired a documentary about interwar Poland called The Hyena of Europe.
Although the expression belongs to W. Churchill, here is the rare case when the British assessment is 100% the same as the Russian one.
Indeed, in the time of Pilsudski, Soviet-Polish relations were worse than ever.
You can try to attribute this to Bolshevism and the Comintern.
Indeed, the policy of the CPSU (b) was also, to put it mildly, imperfect.
But the problem is that Warsaw did not behave in the best way in relation to all its neighbors, who were not noticed in any way in Bolshevism.
The combination of ambition and short-sightedness was present in all azimuths.
Which in the end in 1939 led the Commonwealth to another catastrophe.
But the lessons of the past did not go to the Polish lords for the future, and today they still follow the proven path.
Moreover, if they turn to history (and they love it), then only in order to reinforce the insane ambition, although, it would seem, in the past, and more than once, it did not lead to anything good.
Tradition is the soul of states.
An example of this is the speech of the Polish President Duda in Latvia in front of the local Polish diaspora, designed in the genre “I have a dream”.
He not only declared: “I deeply believe that thanks to our joint support, as well as thanks to the determination of our neighbors and the peoples of the former Commonwealth, Ukraine will win, the Ukrainians will defeat the hated enemy,” but he also prepared a special humiliation for the hated enemy and shared with V.A. .
Zelensky plans how to hold Russia under the yoke.
“Vladimir, looking at our history, how these paths once parted, I beg you: when you defeat Russia, when the Russians come here on their knees to sign peace, then lead them to Pereyaslav, let them sign peace with you there, let them cross out all those years of Soviet and Russian influence and this captivity from the time of tsarism until recently, from which you are now defending yourself again.
That is, the Poles, who believe that all their troubles began in the ancient city of Pereyaslavl, where in January 1654 the Cossack foremen, pressed by the pans, surrendered to the arm of the Russian Tsar, now intend to consolidate the near (as they believe) collapse of the Russian state with a symbolic act.
Where the colonels and the hetman decided: “What a captivity, what a merciless shedding of Christian blood from the Polish pans of oppression, you don’t need to tell anyone;
you yourself all know that it is better to revere a Jew and a dog than a Christian, our brother.”
And now “The Great Sovereign, the Christian Tsar, having taken pity on the unbearable embitterment of the Orthodox Church in our little Russia, did not despise our six years of unceasing prayers, now his merciful Royal heart and bowed to us, his great neighbors to us with Tsar’s grace, deigned to send,
There now, with rapture scolding the Russians who crawl on their knees, Duda wants to consolidate the victory of the pans and forever wash away the shame of 1654.
Generally speaking, the then Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth owed its fall not so much to the Pereyaslav Rada (the Cossacks, according to their custom, soon managed to shift again under the Polish crown), but to the Swedish Flood.
The invasion of the Swedes completely ruined the crown lands, and the greatness of Poland fell forever.
The Warsaw dreamer Duda then already needs to be held under the yoke of the Swedish king Carl Gustav XVI.
But that will probably be in the next tour of the Marlezon Ballet.
With regard to the scenography of the surrender, here Dudu was clearly inspired by the example of the Compiègne carriage.
In the Compiègne forest, which is a little less than 100 km from Paris (just like Pereyaslavl is from Kyiv), in the restaurant car No. 2419D belonging to the International Sleeping Car Company, converted during the Great War into the staff car of Marshal Foch, two capitulations were signed in succession .
On November 11, 1918, they spent there under the yoke of the Germans - the terms of the truce were extremely difficult.
And on June 22, 1940, it was the turn of the French - and there the conditions were not easier.
Duda's predecessor in symbolism, A. Hitler, attached great importance to the fact that representatives of defeated France signed the act of defeat in the same carriage and in the same forest.
Therefore, the Germans removed the wagon from the museum pavilion, where it had stood since 1927.
In a hurry, I had to break down the wall.
After the symbolic humiliation of France, car No. 2419D was taken to Berlin as a trophy of victory, but its museumification turned out to be short-lived.
In April 1945 it burned down.
Either from the allied bombing, or the SS team burned it: “So don’t get you to anyone.”
The Compiègne carriage did not bring happiness to anyone, and Duda, dreaming of the Pereyaslav carriage, should be more careful.
True, there is a slight difference.
The German answer to humiliation with humiliation took place in 1940, only two decades later.
Both mutual grievances and participants in grievances were alive.
Whereas almost four centuries have passed since 1654, in January it turned 369 years old.
The vengeful lord behaves like the Germans, whenever they today wish to take revenge on the French and Swedes for the disasters of the Thirty Years' War.
Or, like the Austrians, when they remembered the Turkish siege of Vienna in 1685.
Obviously, the pan is very angry, and he has a good memory.
The point of view of the author may not coincide with the position of the editors.