Smolensk Monthly. Kaczyński announces the Law and Settlement Guard

Zdjęcie: Miesięcznica smoleńska. Kaczyński zapowiada straż praw i rozliczenia

Another Smolensk monthly event was held in Piłsudski Square in Warsaw. Jarosław Kaczyński announced the establishment of fresh institutions to defend the regulation of law and democracy against the forceful takeover of the state, and the dispute surrounding the memory of Smolensk again showed how profoundly broken Polish politics are.

Monthly, memory and political dispute

The monthly prayer and celebration at the Smolensk monument in Piłsudski Square on 10 August 2026 was not a calm act of remembrance again. How She Reported Virtual Poland, Jarosław Kaczyński's speech was suppressed by the counter-demonstrators, and PiS president responded with strong words to those disrupting the ceremony.

This is not a insignificant incidental from the political calendar. The Smolensk Monthly has for years remained a dispute over state memory, about the right of families of victims to publically commemorate and about whether the tragedy of April 10, 2010 could be pushed out of national consciousness as a embarrassing topic. 96 people died in the Tu-154M disaster, including president Lech Kaczyński, Maria Kaczyńska, the last president of Poland in exile Ryszard Kaczorowski, military commanders, parliamentarians and representatives of the state.

Therefore, all effort to bring that day into a street brawl hits more than 1 party. It hits the simple state order. A country that cannot defend the memorial and peaceful celebrations sends a simple signal to citizens: the political emotions of the street can be stronger than the dignity of national mourning.

The announcement of fresh institutions

The most powerful passage of the speech afraid future legal safeguards. Reported InteriiKaczyński said that after the change of power, institutions were to be established that would prevent specified actions as taking over tv or prosecutors. The WP reported that the president of the PiS utilized the working name "guard of rights".

This sounds like the announcement of a hard consequence to the experience of fresh years, especially after 13 December 2023, erstwhile the right started talking about the forceful dismantling of the institution by Donald Tusk's camp. In the background, there is besides a wider dispute over whether the state is to be a unchangeable common good or a spoil to those who are just taking over and acknowledging that the political nonsubjective justifies the brutal method.

For a national-conservative camp, it is essential. Sovereignty does not start with large declarations in Brussels or with speeches in the campaign. It starts with the real ability of the state to defend its institutions, its own memory and its own right. Without this, Poland becomes soft internally, susceptible to force from the outside and played by the stronger.

Smolensk as a state wound

Kaczyński again referred to work for the Smolensk catastrophe and the function of Russia. DN has already written about the prosecution's actions on Russian auditors in the text about BOLO for 43 Russians in connection with Smolensk disaster. This is an crucial context, due to the fact that the memory of Smolensk is not just a substance of symbols. It concerns the safety of the state, the work of the institutions and relations with Russia, which has for years led a policy of pressure, lies and intimidation towards Poland.

We must be serious about this. You can't turn tragedy into a tribal spectacle. But serious doesn't mean silence. The nation has the right to ask about the truth, and the state has the work to defend the memory of the victims and enforce respect for places which are part of the Polish past of the latest.

That is why the Smolensk period stays politically alive. Not due to the fact that individual wants an eternal brawl. due to the fact that closing a case without a sense of simple justice will always bring resistance.

Right looking for state tools

Kaczyński's speech besides fits into current tensions on the right. In fresh months, the president of the Law and Justice Service has tried to order the transfer of the camp after losses and interior frictions. DN has already noted that Jarosław Kaczyński pointed out Przemysław Czarnek as the future Prime Ministerwhich shows that in the background there is simply a search for the expression of returning to power.

The announcement of "warning rights" only makes sense if it is not organization decorations. If it is to defend the state, it must be based on clear law, judicial review and the work of circumstantial officials. The right can't answer lawlessness with its own freedom. He has to answer with order.

Something very applicable is at stake. For Poles, this means the question whether after all change of government the institutions will be taken over like a prey, or if they will yet be built so that no power can break them for the party's interest. The nation state needs strength. But power without law rapidly becomes another form of chaos.

Source

Fact, Interia, Virtual Poland, Goniec.