Recently the media echoed the issue of appointment of Dr. Tomasz Greniuch, a erstwhile national activist (ONR) as head of the IPN branch in Wrocław. Left-wing media (but not only, due to the fact that the substance besides became part of the competitions in the power camp) raised raban, as a individual with "radical" nationalist views would execute specified a function. The photograph of Dr. Greniuch performing the National Greniuch, i.e. the Roman salute (the lifting of the right hand), is to service as proof of his supposedly Nazi sympathy. Of course, the fact that Dr. Grenich is an objectively good and proven candidate in media sound doesn't matter, but we don't.
My friend Thomas Grenich made a mistake, and it's a very serious mistake. Unfortunately, this must be made clear and clear. That mistake was apologizing and causing for something no 1 should have always apologized for. It was a mistake to renounce your past, identity and culture. It was a mistake to betray one’s perfect predecessors, heroes and fellow-brothers in ideas that remained and persisted to this day, unbreakable in their position. This mistake was to sale your thought and a glorious, glorious past, for the cost of careers, positions and influences. In 1 of his statements, Thomas Grenich stated that his erstwhile activity, and especially the public performance of the Roman Salut was "a mistake of youth" and apologized for it. Unfortunately, at this point he lost respect in the eyes of all Polish nationalist, authentic National Radical. This respect was great, due to the fact that Dr. Tomasz Greniuch has huge, outstanding historical knowledge, and excellent merits. For years he was a well-deserved activist, author of many writings and pamphlets, including training notebooks of the contemporary ONR, in which he explained, among others, the history, meaning and legitimacy of the Roman Salut, defended those who had legal problems at the time. In his most crucial book - "The Nationalist's Way" from 2013 (which can be referred to as "the Bible" of Polish Nationalism), he wrote: "We are not ashamed of our views, our tradition. For us, the Roman salute, greeting of Aryan Europe, raised to the sun right, is not a motion of ordering beer or a motion of searching for a fly on the ceiling.”
What happened abruptly that after only a fewer years, Thomas Grenich withdraws from what he wrote, spoke and did many times and changes his views by 180 degrees? Why is he apologizing for something he had previously defended? Of course, it can be explained that he wanted to keep the position he worked hard for for many years, making quite a few effort. But is this the way of the Nationalist? Should a nationalist put career and chair ahead of the idea? Would this be the case, in the end, of the Unbreakable Soldiers, who came from most of the pre-war ONR? Is Jan Mosdorf – a Polish writer and doctor of philosophy, an activist of the Camp of large Poland, president of the Academic Union of the All-Polish Youth, as well as leader of the National-Radical Camp, prisoner and victim of the German concentration camp Auschwitz, murdered by the Nazis, but if he survived the war, he would apologize to individual for his pre-war activity, and for the Roman Salut? Is Jan Bytnar, ps. “Rudy” – a sub-harvest, associate of the Grey Lines, commander of the “South” of the Storm Groups, 1 of the protagonists of Alexander Kamiński’s book “The Stones for the Sun”, besides a associate of the pre-war ONR, apologizing to anyone for utilizing this greeting? In fact, it seems to me that during the first and second occupations, it is alternatively individual who likewise renounces his own views and ideas, who could number on the conviction of death for betraying his Homeland, as an unhonored and trustworthy person...
The Doctor of past with specified large knowledge, alternatively of causing and apologizing, should usage this situation to explain and explain that the Roman Salut has nothing to do with any "Nazi greeting" or "hailing" that it is simply a symbol of a immense tradition, commonly utilized by most likely all right-wing and national movements throughout 20th century Europe. It was a symbol commonly associated with anti-communism, utilized by both reactionaries, monarchs and traditionalists, as well as by left-wing national revolutionaries or national socialists. The Roman salute is intended to be a mapping of the historical motion already known in ancient Rome as a motion of greeting during the time of the Empire. As for its usage in modern times, the roots of this phenomenon should be sought in the activity of Gabriel d'Annunzio – an Italian poet, 1 of the inspirers of Italian fascism. By the way, it is worth noting that a motion akin to the Roman salute was at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries in... USA, as a school salute to the flag. Returning to Europe, it was the Italian fascists who utilized this motion on a wider scale. However, it rapidly became a sign of another movements belonging to the phenomenon of the "conservative revolution" of the interwar years – on the 1 hand the German Nazis, on the another hand many another movements specified as the Polish NR Camp or the All-Polish Youth Camp, Belgian Christus Rex, Romanian Legion of Michał Archangel, Spanish Falang. This motion besides became an authoritative component of the ceremony not only in the 3rd Reich and Italy – but besides in Francoist Spain, Portugal under Salazar and Austria under the regulation of Dolfuss. As a curiosity, it may be added that it was even utilized by nationalists... Jewish, striving to form a judaic state in Palestine. This motion became in part a hallmark not only of organizations from the mainstream of widely understood nationalism and fascism – but besides of anti-communist and conservative forces, it was utilized as a consequence to the communist motion of raised fists. So it was widely used, "from monarchs on the right by conservatives, naturally nationalists to national radicals on the left".
After planet War II, of course, the motion began to give a clear negative meaning and to associate it with Nazism. This is not a coincidence, of course, and a conscious policy of winners – Western liberals and russian communists, who decided to throw all work and blame for the war on 1 side of the conflict. This was a farce in Nuremberg, where the culprits of the 3rd Reich were harshly tried – while unsacrificed and unsacrificed crimes of communists (Cathin) or Allies (Hiroshima, Dresden) remained. Unfortunately, this state of consciousness continues mostly to this day, and has a strong impact on Polish social awareness – including the nominal right. Disparity in the treatment of communism and Nazism is besides evident. There is simply a Communist organization of Poland in Poland, an organization called the Nazi organization of Poland would not be able to registry (and national socialism, specified as communism, can have many faces). The Hindu symbol of happiness (a conventional symbol known and utilized for centuries in the Podhale, as Cross Unexpected, placed commonly on hut beams, on monuments or on graves, which, among others, is simply a sign of the Podhale firearm Division), the sickle and hammer no longer seem to be a large problem. Finally, the same applies to gestures – the Roman salute, the conventional motion before the war, is prohibited by the very association with Nazism, and besides in Poland; while no 1 even considers penalising the motion of raised fists, which was utilized by a left-wing MP during his vow in the parliament. This shows hypocrisy and duality in the state's action. It is hard not to look for the influences of judaic historical politics, which of Nazism and the Holocaust wants to make past and phenomena a turning point, and liberal propaganda from the West, which besides in Nazism and everything associated with it looks at the top evil. So there is no reason to give in to this force and propaganda. The Roman salute is simply a motion that does not have negative connotations, and the hysteria of the left should not affect us here. present prohibited there is simply a Roman salute and Facebook censors the phalange symbol – shortly they will want to ban the usage of the phalange sign, the Chrobry sword or the slogan "Hello to the large Poland". Giving in to leftist pressures in things that are not bad (but only they are not acquainted with them) – specified as the Roman salute, "Burning Souls" Degrella or the Celtic cross – it does not lead to anything, and if we do it rapidly we will get harassed and we will gotta explain everything that is not taken straight from left-wing or demoliberic communicative and aesthetics.
Unfortunately, this is the way followed by the modern ONR, which is alternatively a mediocre caricature of the pre-war 1 to which it refers. I have not found any authoritative message by the board of ONR in fresh days, but I have found a message by Col. Alexander Krejckant, erstwhile chief executive of ONR, in which he repeated in fact what Dr. Thomas Grenich said recently, namely that the performance of the Roman salute was a mistake... So, yes. Well, the National-Liberal Camp, I'm sorry, National-Radical Camp has not been following this way since today, and it was to be predicted that this is the position of the people who have commanded this organization for years. Many years ago ONR gave up, among others, the usage of uniforms, and another things that any may "remote badly". This was then translated by the "improvement of media image" etc. At the same time, Roman greetings were besides abandoned. Instead, any unusual greeting to the elbow or any another part of the body began, I don't remember exactly... Dear colleagues, you've sued each another into the head of the left, their media, and political correctness, and 1 by one, take your own identity. You've allowed your organizations to be stripped of their uniforms and taken distant their Salut. I'm not amazed at the fact that in a fewer years from now, in the name of the same slogans, you're going to quit public usage of the Falangi sign, due to the fact that for most of the society, it's besides "bad associations". All I'm asking you to do is halt utilizing the beautiful pre-war names of the old organizations, due to the fact that you're only dishonoring them, it's truly pathetic... You have nothing to do with them!
I'm not in the present situation, nevertheless sorry I am. He deserved it, unfortunately. It was known from the beginning that this would happen. At first, of course, I enjoyed this nomination and congratulated him, but erstwhile this media assault started, I knew well that it would not last. He could have kept his face then, and remained unmoved, but he began to flaunt, cay, apologize... It didn't do him any good, of course, due to the fact that he lost his job. However, he besides lost something much more crucial – face, honor and respect, and it is not easy to rebuild. Now he truly has something to apologize for. For what he said last time, betraying his erstwhile fellow brothers in Idea. Worse, however, if what he said was sincere, and he truly thinks so. Then I have no hope of him anymore, and I fear that there is no more salvation for him due to the fact that he has become part of this system. So they won't be taking his side in any "male after Grenich" actions. For what you utilized to be doesn't substance but who you were, it besides matters who you remained and who you are now. As he sang in 1 of his iconic songs, the legendary Squadron97 band, on which to a large degree (apart from the iconic Legion band, of course) I grew up ideologically:
"Keeping pride so hard today, in hard times came to live, easy to get off the right path, surviving slowly, For no reason to halt believing to become a part, 1 of them, already on the hands of shackles, cast to the end of days,
On their knees, watching them buy your dignity, You're just a part of crap that sold your own house, erstwhile it gets to the regular grayness of the pain, Monotony will dig a grave for everyone."
