Fires – more and more frequent, more and more dangerous, including Krakow, where the flames of a ten-story block were blown out of the sealed gas pipeline. Blowing up the tracks, which could have caused a train crash with a immense number of casualties. Breaking long cuts off railway traction, causing a threat and paralyzing communication between respective cities and districts. Who knows the communicative knows what and whose methods it resembles.
Immediately after the defeat of Bolsheviks, in the war against Poland from 1919 to 1921, very akin events began to happen in east provinces of the Republic of Poland. The Bolsheviks did not dare to start another open war with Poland until their alliance with Hitler and the attack on Poland in 1939. However, they started a war of another kind, most frequently called a "burning boundary". This was due to the permanent intrusion into the Polish territory of diversion troops. Their members were dressed in civilian clothing, which in the event of their capture prevented these attacks from being treated as acts of state aggression. We know a akin method from fresh years erstwhile Russian “green men” appeared in Ukraine. What Putin himself said officially, that “a uniform like this without insignia anyone can buy in any country.” In the 1920 ’ s, specified troops could appear as many as 40 to 50 kilometres from the border to attack, plunder and burn down the landowner’s court, usually killing all its inhabitants. Bolshevik newspapers later made specified events public throughout the planet as an alleged "Revolutionary movement resulted from class oppression in bourgeois Poland". Forest areas and the weakness of the border police allowed bandit russian troops to withdraw, frequently combined with further attacks – to post offices or police stations. There have been days erstwhile respective twelve akin actions occurred simultaneously in the Polish territory. They killed Polish officials, police officers, teachers. The town halls of tiny towns were burned, but mostly manors, manor houses and farms of richer peasants. The Bolshevik agent besides managed to recruit rather a fewer social margins, mainly from national minorities – Ukrainian, Belarusian, Jewish. Of course – they besides had communists and another paid bandits at their disposal for hire.
In fresh years, we have had very dangerous cyber attacks, including the paralysing of steam rail transport (I remember 1 of these days – at the stations the information boards showed utmost nonsense, the express from Warsaw to Wrocław arrived after respective hours). Then the arson plague started. The last bombing of railway tracks is not the first case of this kind. specified actions can be carried out easily, due to the fact that diversions can be obtained from social margins or from foreigners, whose approximate number is impossible to determine. You don't gotta have any. In many countries (in the mediate East, but not only) they are usually carried out so that individual dumps an innocent looking burden and detonates sometimes virtually a fewer years old child. It only knows that in any situation (e.g. erstwhile a train or another vehicle appears) it only has to press the previously indicated button on a mobile phone. It does not make it easier that we have courts in Poland, which recently, for example, have released, after paying a PLN 12,000 fine, Ukraine where a bomb was found intended to blow up a pipeline. If the consequences for participating in the crime being prepared are nothing, they are only an incentive to accept money for planting more loads. The Tusk government has besides unleashed specified a hysteria around the case of Pegasus, that it is for aid in utilizing akin software forced to ask Czech services now. And Polish services – they are primarily afraid with the persecution of the opposition and not concern for the safety of Poland and Poles. With a large part of the threat being eliminated very easily. The integrity of all railway tracks can be controlled by a simple electronic strategy that alerts immediately as shortly as any, smallest even track fragment is damaged. And it would have been immediately known where the incidental occurred, which would have enabled an immediate manhunt of the perpetrators. We can't destruct all the threats enough, but we can do as much as we can. And for tiny money and in short time. You just gotta want to. However, presently ruling Poland is known, among another things, for wanting very little. Vide Minister of Finance, which was not revived by a increasing budget disaster, but only an chance to participate in the imprisonment of 1 of the political opponents. As the old proverb says, “when a cat sleeps, mice work.” So as long as Poland is ruled by the utmost losers who are not curious in the matters of Poland and Poles – we can anticipate to escalate the threats to the degree of the "burning border" from the first half of the 1920s. Only now the full of Poland can be the territory of this war and not only trains and gas pipelines can fly into the air, but lots of another infrastructure components. Universal intimidation, chaos, pauperization, many victims in people is simply a simple recipe for finishing Poland with minimal financial and political costs. A 100 years ago, the same country led an attack against Poland of precisely the same kind. But how was the erstwhile “burning boundary” handled?
It started with military settlement. At that time border was quite a few agricultural land belonging to the state treasury, which was allocated to veterans of Polish independency fights. They usually began with a simple but effective fortification of their homes, practiced in the far reaches centuries ago. This was due to the elevation in any distance from the home of 4 wooden towers. In the event of a threat, a defender called an alarm, with which even in the mediate of the night all able to carry a weapon (not excluding women and girls) took positions on the towers. And that everyone could shoot perfectly – they rapidly could kill most of the 100-person Tatar pulpit. And those who escaped with their lives – catch up with horse pursuit and hang on roadside trees to inform about the future destiny of the next aggressors. In the early 1920s, besides Polish-bolshevik borderlands were inhabited by families, each of whom was able to rapidly form a ward fearless and very dangerous. The secret is to let Polish authorities to carry out retaliatory actions. If any russian band managed to climb into the Polish territory and do harm – a fewer days later the Bolsheviks got their loot and usually more powerful. Many military settlers were soldiers of the top commandos class. In Russia, they were able to approach any NKVD barracks in Bolshevik territory, destruct the guards without any noise, and make a retaliation in the form of a massacre of the Kacapian bandits. In retaliation for robberies against the courts and police stations – they flew into the air and burned the Russian houses of the party, the office of the militia and another Bolshevik authorities. Officially, no 1 admitted it. But the Soviets began to realize that they had to defender their territory alternatively of going to Poland. In 1924, the defence of the Polish borders had already taken the form of a line fenced off by a solid fence, along which it led along a road that was densely distributed with value. They were occupied by the Border defender Corps – a formation awakening real fear in russian thugs. Many accounts show that Bolshevik guards at the sight of people from the COP – they were virtually fleeing or searching for cover. The customized of the guards of the Polish borders was to exercise accuracy in throwing stones towards moving targets. And they could throw at a distance astoundingly large and almost always hit.
A 100 years ago, Poland was able not only to cope perfectly with the threat of a kind akin to today's, but effectively teaching opponents appropriate respect. Will we, erstwhile faced with a akin challenge, be worthy of our fathers and grandparents?
Artur Adamski
