April 10 is the anniversary of the top misfortune, drama in the past of the 3rd Republic, an unimaginable tragedy and without precedent in the world. The basic question we should all ask ourselves erstwhile we look into the mirror is – how we came out of it, how we talk about it today, whether we were scratched with seriousness, dignity, and even with a heightened experience – this is simply a real test, a real litmus paper of our political, social and yet civic maturity.
Unfortunately, my reflection after 15 years is very sad.
Let us remind how the historian should do this first hours, days after the disaster, are any of the most beautiful moments in the past of free Poland. It was a triumph of human solidarity. We all knew precisely what to do. Serious, calm and regret were obvious, natural and not forced. The unity of people who are usually different has been a origin of milking. At that time the division of the left – right, conservatives – liberals did not matter.
All of this, according to the seriousness and magnitude of the drama, has been suspended. We were citizens of a wounded country. However, this Poland, its size, lasted very briefly, and from the position of the sea of hatred, which then poured out, it was only a moment... What happened to us? Is that what this was about?
As you know, the crucial minute for today's situation of specified a deep division was the decision to bury the presidential couple in Wawel. Was that a good social decision? Let's be clear – she wasn't. nevertheless – and I besides wrote this in April 2010 – whether the magnitude, immensity and unprecedentedness of the tragedy, which was the Smolensk catastrophe for Poland and Poles, did not order silence at the time? Silence, due to the fact that the majesty of the death of the president of the Republic should prompt everyone to simply bite their tongues, not scream, not to throw out bad people erstwhile it comes to context, protests.
Mirowski: Smolensk mourning was not respected
Unfortunately, then grief was not respected. Poland's size became very small-minded. And at this point, it begins, already eternal and ritual, to shift work – who is to blame for all this? It's always the same thing, to be bored predictable rumbling, buzzing, squeaking, those with a mars face said words, that it's not us, they're guilty! They are the ones who divide Poland! “Who are they, who are they? Who knows them and who protects them? Come on, come on, come on, come on, come on. possibly we, possibly you possibly I and possibly you – Jan Peszek sang in Robert Gliński's 1988 movie "Singing the Favors". I give this text perfectly to this Smolenian game, the Smolensk masquerade we have practiced by politicians – always looking at the second as vile haters.
Do we truly like this kind of football match by the title – “Blood in Tupoleva”, blood everywhere, blood on gloves of Russian servant Tusk versus demonic Jarosław Kaczyński sacrificing the death of his brother, to be like Macbeth, to swim in power, the only 1 of his passion? Does that truly suit us? Betrayal vs. cynicism – does our social mentality truly gotta come back to this? Does this fill Polish problems and problems?
I'm not comfortable with this Manichean dichotomy world. I do not like specified a discussion, so possibly after those long years, during which with nihilistic passion we destroyed all state and civic holiness it is worth looking in the mirror and saying that all of us are guilty of Smolensk! Let us effort to say before ourselves – not them, but us!
We who could not respect death and then honor so many decent, noble and good people led by president Lech Kaczyński and his wife.
We who argued about a secondary case where a memorial resembling this tragedy is to stand. And erstwhile he yet became a practicer of unworthy, nihilistic tactics proving the worst savagery of customs.
We who so easy walked into the shoes of an ordinary, vulgar and violent conflict. It was us who so rapidly succumbed to this treacherous laninowsko–schmittów category of "who-who".
Oh, this delightful phrase "enemy-friend" – remember this inflation of foolish words, these demoralizing scenes on Krakowskie Przedmieście, this ease of casting a calumnia, is dehumanizing an opponent and not seeking an adversary in it, but an enemy that needs to be destroyed.
It's all us... “We, nation”! — “We, The People”!
Dear fellow countrymen, the blame for this deep social-political ditch is common and affects everyone. If the Republic of Poland is the common good of all citizens, if we take this conviction from the Polish Constitution seriously, then we besides bear our share of work for it, from which no 1 and nothing can fire us. I think it's worth admitting, mentioning 96 victims of this terrible disaster. possibly for the first time, it is worth to apologize to them honestly...
I'm ashamed, but of course it's best to fight in someone's chest, not yours. That's what we do best.
THE erstwhile TEXT is an opinion of the Autor and does not present the views of ANGORA's Redaction.
