This was the goal of many “conservatives” and “nationals” – for many years. There were even serious and little serious initiatives supported from across the ocean to anchor specified a view in Poland, to build an anti-Russian perfect for us, due to the fact that the opinion of Dmowski as a supporter of the agreement with Russia was an obstacle to the programming of Poland after 1989 as a rusophobic state.
In fresh times, we have respective statements reverberating this sociotechnical operation. And yes Sławomir Mentzem, alternatively not acquainted with the essence of Dmowski's thought, quotes a fragment taken from the context from 1 of his books: "I have contempt for Moscow for their Asian destructive inclination, for the unceremoniousness with which they are trampled after the centuries of civilization's work, for this east irresponsibility before my own conscience, which in all case allows to have 2 faces." He's right. Jan Sadkiewicz from Universitas publishing house, who is active in publishing works by realists and Polish conservatives, that simply manipule with Dmowski's text. And it reminds me of how he sounded whole:
“I hatred wicked people, whether they are Germans, Moscals or my own people, Or possibly most recently. I hatred teachers who, having their vocation to teach and rise young people, abuse them, kill their physical forces in the embryo, demoralize them, restrain or distort their intellectual development. I hatred judges who, alternatively of doing justice, abuse the right to defend these or another interests, to persecute political opponents. I hatred officials who, being the organs of a state machine, should facilitate the organisation of life and contribute to its progress, while working to annihilate the best efforts, to halt and even undo life in its development. I hatred clergymen who, set up to rise the people morally and provided for this intent with as powerful means as confessional and pulpit, usage them for the current political interests. I consider all of them to be little or little the same crime as a doctor who calls upon a sick person, finds in him his individual or political opponent, alternatively of a cure, poison...
Germany, who, seeing that it is in the interest of the Prussian state to conquer for the German culture, will settle there and turn all its energy into strengthening in our country a German who will take Polish children and teach them in German, who will organize the German administration in his estate, and the cultural influence will transform his environment into Germans, who will establish German philanthropic institutions — only respect will rise in me, nevertheless I consider him a more dangerous enemy than the others, and above all I will effort to fight his attempts. Moskal, who would buy a property in Lithuania and settle there only to spread the influence of Russia, to awaken a train to Moscow in Belarusian peasants, He can besides be certain of my respect as an thought man who can work for his people, But besides that I will fear him more than his fellow activists... I consider this to be evidence of the collapse of civic morality and intellectual weakness in those leaders of our opinion who do not see the difference between a fair national conflict and a simple crime, who do not have a sense of justice allowing them to feel contempt and hatred for a villain or a barbarian destroyer of civilization's work, while at the same time gaining respect for a noble, even the most dangerous opponent; who do not realize that without hatred, but with respect for an adversary 1 can fight him most fiercely."
And Sadkiewicz comments: "If Dmowski (or anyone) despised the Russians (or Germany, or any another nation as such) then there would be nothing valuable in it and no affirmative discipline should be sought in it".
And the another case is Robert Winnicki, a political outlaw who tries to return to the game and emanates with his pseudo-intellectual cuts. By arguing with Janusz Korwin-Mikke writes:
“Mr Janusz, I have always been intrigued by this communicative about Russia oppressed by the USSR, Russia being de facto the other of the Soviets and so on. The communicative is absurd not only from the point of view of Polish experiences with Moscow, which is simply a 500-year-old defence continuum against the aggression of this steppe civilization, killing Poles, destroying our material legacy, taking distant our Ends etc. She is preposterous from the point of view... Russians. The modern Russian Federation is not only the legal heir to the USSR. Russia, especially Putinowska, is arrogant of its russian part of history, identifying with it, glorifying it, considering it cored, identityally own. The cult is surrounded by criminal formations with the Red Army at the head, the cult is surrounded by Stalin, its monuments are built, any even celebrated by Orthodox priests (!) Colonel KGB Putin does not mention to the dissolution of the USSR as the minute erstwhile “Russia freed itself from the Soviets” only “the top geopolitical disaster of the 20th century”. Besides, the cult of a criminal totalitarian state, criminal formations and characters is not just a top-down state policy. About 60% of Russians are affirmative about Stalin, who wins plebiscites as Russia's top leader in all (!) its history."
Opinions and assessments as absurd and stupid as simple, taken out like from the agitator's notebook, able to successfully appear in Gazeta Wyborcza or on the websites of the OKO.Pres, about Ukrainian-Bander portals I will not mention. If individual claiming to be intelligent says that Russia has been an aggressor for 500 years (meaning about 1525), it means that he is semi-intelligent and ignorant. The same is actual erstwhile it comes to "criminal formation" as was the Red Army, which during planet War II was the main ally of the United States and large Britain (and Poland) in the fight against the 3rd Reich. And by which this young and ignorant man could be born in Zgorzelec. He besides lies erstwhile he says that there is simply a state worship of Stalin in Russia. It is, but local and spread mostly by communists. A Time Unrepentant Prof. Bogusław Wolniewicz He said that it was impossible to request Russians to condemn Stalin entirely, due to the fact that unlike Hitler, who brought the top defeat to Germany in history, Stalin led to Russia's top triumph in history. Anyway, these are the issues that are Russia's interior affairs, and no Winnicki will change that.
Let's go back to Dmowski. In my introduction to the selection of Roman Dmowski's texts about Russia and Ukraine, I wrote: "Russia viewed Dmowski as a country alternatively alien to civilization, with large influences of the Turkish people, although it frequently emphasized his Christian character, which he believed represented the Russian people, unlike the government, which accused not only of "Asianism", but besides of succumbing to German influence. However, contrary to what current supporters of the "anti-Russianism" of Dmowski say, this character was not intended to discredit Russia, but to realize it."
In 1925 he explained: “I learned to look at our attitude toward Russia in a historical perspective, with a calmness in which political thoughts do not defile passions, created by the past and fueled constantly to fresh times by Russian politics towards Poland, if it could be called politics. In my opinion, it was unworthy of our nation to be outraged only at the harm, protested against them and either to wait for a change in Russia's conduct, or to blindly search its destruction, even if we were to die together with it."
He added: “Going on an equal way with Russia in the future is simply a work that requires large effort of thought and energy. This is the hardest of our policy tasks, not only due to the past, but besides due to its importance for our future, we face most obstacles from foreign, hostile influences both in us and in Russia."
And in 1931 he concluded: “Russia exists present as our neighbor, and it is the neighbour most important, as the future will surely show. In spite of all the efforts which Germany has shown present in addressing our attention, it seems that their function and importance, present inactive enormous, will gradually decrease, while, in my opinion, Russia is approaching the function of prime in planet relations. Our nation must be clear about its position and its function in the world, and must know what it is striving for towards Russia. This is the hardest part for Polish thought, but surely the most crucial part of our external policy for the future of Poland".
These are the real indications of Dmowski, which he does not want to know, claiming to be Endek Winnicki. Quoting Dmowski's harsh assessments about Russia and its authoritative apparatus during the captivity, erstwhile a large part of Poland was part of it – it is an intellectual abuse Yes, Dmowski attacked conservatives and settlers for their inactivity to Russia and submission, but then took over most of their demands. After 1918, Poland and Russia (bolshevia) were 2 separate organisms, and then Dmowski felt that it was essential to think about the permanent arrangement of our relations, without historical phobias and injuries. He then formulated a imagination that Bolshevikism in Russia would pass through within 3 generations, but the Russian people would stay and that is our mention point. Meanwhile, Mr. Winnicki offers us a repeat of those times and stories about “stepped civilization”.
Poland's good relations with Russia do not require us to accept everything that exists in Russia, but to admit that it is different from us, has its tradition and its imagination of history. That's it. It is not essential to be “pro-Russian” to postulate the realist policy of Poland towards Russia – trying to transform Russia in our image and according to our ideas about Russia – they are madness. That is why on this day, the anniversary of the death of Roman Dmowski, I inform against self-proclaimed heirs, against forgers of his ideological and programming legacy, against the "anti-Russian" intention.
Jan Engelgard
