Marek Baterowicz: The victims will not compose historia

On the contrary, due to the fact that its subject concerns the most crucial things. The author rightly complains that Poland “still wanders through its ruins, debating who should bring her an umbrella...”, of course it is about military aid, and Mr Kłosowski sets us a model of Israel – another front country – which without asking anyone for approval built a strong and effective army to defend its sovereignty. Sure, but the front is uneven. Our 2 fronts have a much longer history, west of the 10th century – since the conflict of Cedynia, and the east front from Ivan the Terrible in the late 16th century, was the beginning of Moscow's constant force on the Republic of Poland. Incidental raids like Genghis-Chana or Lithuanian kunigas, then Turkey, can be ignored in this context. It happened to us and the “flood” coming from the north, so Poland was indeed a front country in history, much longer than Israel. So she should have taken care of a powerful army as early as the 17th century. Unfortunately, we rested on our laurels from Vienna. And even so, the Sarmatites were hrkokies and pacifists avant la lettre, so the sabres were only made of muss erstwhile it was essential to defend the Homeland in a common move. Then came the Saxon times rather quickly, the universal distribution of the kingdom, and yet the partition. We failed to establish a permanent army, and it was only in 1918-1920 that we picked up a fight to defend ourselves against the Bolshevik flood, and it worked perfectly. Unfortunately, in 1939 we lost the Polish state together with the national army, whereas the period of the Polish People's Republic was a russian republic, so the national military is hard to consider as an armed force of the sovereign state, since we lived under the boot of Moscow. After 1989, however, the national armed forces were incapable to rebuild for respective fundamental reasons. First in Magdalena and at the circular table, the post-communists prohibited us to recreate the Polish country truly independent, the III of Poland was and is an attraction, so it is simply a false name, and more like a PRL-bis. And in 1992 it was only the government of Jan Olszewski that was the embryo of the Polish state, unfortunately it was rapidly removed, in which Donald Tusk participated and the present “premier”. Secondly, the subsequent governments of SLD-PSL and PO-PSL did not care about the improvement of the Polish army, especially Tusk inhibited this process and even liquidated certain units of troops. He besides abolished the work of universal military service. It was only in 8 years of the PiS's word of office that the Polish state and the possible of our armed forces were restored, unusual that Mr Kłosowski did not mention this in a word. Unfortunately, since December 2023 Tusk has been reigning again and is demoting Poland and the condition of the Polish army in a variety of ways, e.g. he refused to paint our jets with peculiar paint, which gives a shield against radar, explaining that the state has no funds for it. He removes garrisons in Pomerania, but what's to wonder? Since Poland cannot be an entity, it becomes a victim as Kłosowski writes in the conclusions. This conviction asks for a tiny correction: Poland simply CAN NOT be the subject of history, due to the fact that this is not what the abroad executive agents want again since December 2023 officially the Polish government. And here lies the dog buried, or the deputy editor-in-chief “All the Most Important” does not know this? I support his appeal to make a strong Polish army, but let us not pretend to be Greeks and compose the fact due to the fact that it is the most important. Ergo, first we must make a Polish state, and then no 1 will pour sand into the modes and we will be able to build our armed forces.

Marek Baterovich

Marek Baterowicz, born1944) made his debut as a poet on "The Weekly of the Common" and "The Student" (1971). Book debut - "Verses to Dawn" (W-wa, 1976); the title was an allusion to the night of PRL. In 1981, he published outside censorship a collection of poems entitled "Having broken branches of silence". Since 1985 on emigration, since 1987 in Australia. Author of respective prose titles(M.in "Zarno rises in wound"-1992 in Sydney and 2017 in Warsaw) and many poesy collections specified as "heart and fist" (Sydney, 1987), "From that side of the tree" (Melbourne, 1992 – poems collected), "Place in the atlas" (Sydney, 1996), "Chair and Shadow" (Sydney,2003), "On the Sun leash" (Sydney, 2008). In 2010 in Italy there was a selection of poems – "Canti del pianoa", followed by "Status quo" (Toronto, 2014), a collection of short stories – "Jeu de masques" (Nantes, 2014), "Over large Water" (Sydney, 2015) and an e-book of his naval novel, settled in the 16th century "Aux vents conjurés".(www.polskacanada.com/aux-vents-conjures-par-marker-batter