Television Poland will limit the presentation of Russian and Belarusian athletes during the Milan-Cortina Paralympic Games. erstwhile they appear at the beginning ceremony, the station will interrupt transmissions. erstwhile in the broadcast signal from the beginning ceremony Milan Cortina 2026 Winter Paralympic Games There will be players representing Russia or Belarus, we will interrupt the broadcast and issue the board with the following information: "Solidarists with Ukraine. TVP athletics opposes Russian and Belarusian players' participation in sports competition”. I wonder what's next? They're gonna tag the Russians and the Belarusians with blindfolds? They're not gonna let them walk the sidewalks? They'll ban restaurants, cinemas and malls? They're gonna lock up in separate neighborhoods? We know that from history.
Almost the full political and media scene in Poland heats a rusophobic atmosphere. Aversion to everything Russian including literature and athletics is fueled. This is madness for which we will pay for long years. Rusophobia in its most primitive form is common in Poland after the “left” and “right” sides. In any part it grows out of our history, a circumstantial knowing of our history, and in part it is applied to us by strangers. It seems to me that, after the “left” 1 during the Russian-Ukrainian war, it exploded more – due to the fact that for years it was hidden under the coat of manifest tolerance and political correctness. Aversion, and frequently hatred against Russians in the last 3 years, has become desirable. All those who had a somewhat different opinion on Russia and the Russians than the 1 presented in the main media were immediately hailed as “Russian onus”.
For me, the symbol of the chant was 2022. Walking around the street on 3 May in Katowice, I noticed on the door of a shoe store a sticker with a pig in colors of Russia. I decided to come in and ask what that sticker meant. Young ladies selling shoes said "we do not service Russian here" and "Russian food". Then there was a disgraceful attack on the Russian Federation ambassador Sergei Andreyev At the russian Soldiers Mausoleum Cemetery. And the deficiency of a appropriate reaction of the Polish authorities. That must have been an objection. And it is not even about morality – due to the fact that it is simply a weak card in global politics – what about Polish national interest.
Mass training engineers have trained my nation in zealous hatred of Russia. On all occasion the Polish rulers show Moscow aversion, distrust, readiness to humiliate and Hispanic contempt. All that is legally forbidden in us and socially ill-seen, for example, towards Ukraine or Israel, is silently praised if it concerns "ruskie". We are enslaved by the inferiority complex towards the West (especially the US) and the superiority complex towards the East (especially Russia). The 2 old complexes operate in close compression. The awareness of a immense part of my countrymen included in the ticks of these 2 complexes remains permanently incapable of correct assessments and to form appropriate relations with the most crucial neighbours.
The war in Ukraine was just a pretext. After all, my compatriots are so strictly unresponsive to another armed conflicts in the planet – for example, the attack by the United States and Israel on the muslim Republic of Iran. The war in Ukraine allowed for respective years the usage of language and arguments that were suppressed for many years by “political correctness”. What was condemned, and even legally forbidden to another nationalities, no problem, and even with the applause of the elite passed erstwhile it afraid the Russians. It did not substance that it was devoid of decency and logic. There was permission, and even an anticipation by liberal media, to usage rhetoric about dirty Bolsheviks, genetic killers, washing device and watch thieves, monsters worse than SS-mai, degenerated orcs, cursed Russian land, and grandchildren of those who murdered in Katyn. And all those who have moral and intellectual opposition to baptize “the Russian agent”, “the stinking onus”, “the 5th column”, “putin’s tolls” or “Russian rubels salesmen”. 1 hand can number those who consistently opposed primitive rusophobia from the beginning and did not let themselves to impose rusophobic narrative.
I am glad that my political environment, “Think Poland”, did not succumb to this madness and analysed the relation between my homeland and our biggest neighbour. This has not truly been easy in the last 3 years. Practically all effort to rationally talk about Polish-Russian relations, Russian culture or politics conducted by the Russian Federation was shuffled by the argument "war in Ukraine". My political community is aware that the war will end and Russia will stay our neighbour. Establishing average relations with the Russian Federation is fundamental to the Polish national interest. It is essential to be able to do intrepid business in the future and enrich our nation.
Łukasz Jastrzeżski
