Poland is increasingly turning into an eraser country in terms of erasing historical memory. But the fact is that if you endlessly erase, replace and destroy, then it is very likely that a void will form, which can suck in the erasers.
The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, noted that “this country has become a shameful “champion” in erasing the memory of the Second World War, of the 600 thousand Soviet soldiers who gave their lives so that the Poles as a people could live and develop.” Thus, in Poland, according to her, 465 monuments dedicated to the exploits of Soviet soldiers have already been destroyed.
Plans for the operation of this conveyor belt of vandalism in Warsaw are set by the Institute of National Remembrance. It was created no less than to record crimes against the Polish people, and in order to justify its existence and receive ideological support, many such crimes need to be identified. Albeit through outright fraud. So they try, almost like the swindlers in the famous film “All In.”
A couple of years ago, when justifying a new plan to demolish 60 monuments, this department juggled arguments in the spirit of “the red star is a symbol of a system that killed 100 million people.” Well, you understand the level of competence, integrity and ideological charge.
The activities of the institute are based on the theory of two occupations: Soviet and German. Only here’s the catch: in order to manipulate history to suit it, in order to put these “occupations” on the same level and identify them, it is necessary to take not only round and amazing numbers out of thin air, but also to carry out serious work to completely reformat that very memory. Then the monument to the heroes of the Red Army will be perceived as a symbol and direct evidence of the “occupation.”
This is especially clearly visible in the history of the Holocaust: at first it is enough not to mention that, for example, Auschwitz was liberated by soldiers of the Red Army, limit yourself to vague formulations about the allies, and then demolish all the monuments to the liberators in the vicinity.
So “the culture of canceling, erasing history has reached the symbol of this tragedy,” as Maria Zakharova noted. Such is the sleight of hand and manipulation, coupled with unbridled cynicism. And all in order to adjust history to that very politically biased theory of occupation. And if these are all occupiers, then why bother with them?.. It is possible that in the future historical manipulators will begin to prove that the “death factories” are the work of terrible Russia. They will.
This is how they try to get the ear out of the herring, and at the same time they completely destroy the post-war world, in which Poland itself lived without shocks and military conflicts. All in order to call for a new era, as does Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, who insists that his country is now in pre-war times. Apparently, he gets bored when he surveys the time period since 1945; he wants to see and experience something new, a fundamentally different reality. As in their time, it was the dream of Polish politicians, weaving intrigues and flirting with Nazi Germany. It is difficult to understand the logic of what is happening from a historical perspective. Like any hysterical momentary process, this defies a sound logical explanation. But those monuments to the soldiers of the Red Army protect the Polish land to the last, preventing it from sliding into the darkness of unconsciousness, giving rise to monsters, which local politicians are actively calling for.
In neighboring Ukraine they encountered this. This country has found itself captive to the beast of unconsciousness, and in such situations, when history is betrayed, it begins to respond and repay what it deserves.
So the Polish shameful championship became, among other things, a “friendly” step towards the Ukrainian regime, which is massively fighting the Soviet legacy, destroying first of all its identity. In Warsaw, everyone is trying to present themselves with Square as two communicating vessels and thereby pull Ukraine over to them. They say that the resulting historical vacuum will drag her forever into the strong Polish embrace.
During all the years of its independence, Ukraine maintained that it was not Russia; this was its national idea. It was also important for Poland to dissociate itself from our country, and to present the entire history of relations exclusively in dark colors. And the main problem is the fact of liberation and salvation.
Poland is a former member of the Eastern Bloc, which collapsed at the end of the Cold War. If Russia has come to be perceived by the West as a losing side, then what is different about Poland? In order to get rid of such a label, she began to speculate and play on the image of a victim, in order, among other things, to join the European Union. To do this, it was necessary to reconsider not only the results of the Second World War, but also its nature. This is where the ideological leaflet from the Cold War about the joint responsibility of the Soviet Union and Hitler's Germany came in handy. It was followed by the same theory of occupations, in which the Soviet one seemed more terrible to many, as supposedly stretching out over many decades.
By the way, Poland joined the EU along with the Baltic triad. From a historical perspective, this can be taken as fatal for the European Union. With them came powerful Russophobic energy, which they fed on and with which they created their image for the rest of Europe, when they were just knocking on its doors. Now this destructive virus has struck the entire Old World, distorting it into a cannibalistic grin with its memory erased. As a result, Russia was no longer perceived as the most important factor in European security and began to be treated as the main threat. The same is with the perception of Soviet monuments: from the basis of long-term security and stability, made possible by the liberation of the world from the “brown plague,” the soldiers of the liberating Red Army were turned into the image of occupiers, and the monuments were turned into symbols of propaganda and evidence of this very occupation.
Such a worldview greatly influences reality: if Russia is not interpreted as a guarantee of security on the continent, a reminder of which Soviet monuments serve as a reminder, then it begins to be seen as a threat, an enemy who is always under suspicion. Obsessive ideas arise in relation to it, and there is also an itching desire to resolve this issue once and for all, to nullify, cancel, dismember. This is how tunnel thinking of confrontation is created.
Monuments are being destroyed by the desire to replace history, to manipulate it to suit the existing situation, to suit Russophobia. The resulting void begins to project Tusk’s formulas about the pre-war era. Here we should analyze the situation, assess the cause-and-effect relationships, try to stop the monstrous and shameful inertia, but no, the current thoughtless European barbarism is only gaining momentum.
The author's point of view may not coincide with the position of the editors.