Before the parliamentary elections this spring, the phenomenon of sending soldiers and equipment to various ceremonies intensified. The Ministry of National Defence and Unit Command began to receive many applications from local PiS activists and politicians from all over Poland. According to Onet journalists, they have respective specified documents.
Combat vehicle, armed soldiers and blown castle
One example is the village of Zajączki 2nd in the Śląskie Voivodeship, in Klobuckie County, which has a population of nearly a thousand. The simple school there, church and fire station are the centres of the community. On 22 May, the president of the Volunteer Fire Service in the Second Bunny asked Marcin Ociepa, Secretary of State at the MON, to aid organize a household picnic. The picnic was intended to “integrate residents as well as household ties through shared fun”. The program was to include “inspiring creative meetings, children's play area, concerts and many another attractions”.
As Onet determined, 1 of specified attractions was to show military equipment and participate soldiers in the fun. Deputy Minister Ociepa agreed to what was confirmed by the request of the president of OS from the Second Bunny to the Defence Ministry. The Secretary of State in the MON personally wrote “agreement” on it and transferred to the implementation by the Central Military Recruitment Center.
Photo. FACEbookAs Onet wrote: “Thanks to this agreement of the bouncy castle at the picnic, soldiers guarded with long weapons in the company of a fighting Humvee vehicle.”
Additionally, the agrarian picnic in the Second Bunny was an event full of politicians from PiS. Among those present were the Secretary of State in the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, Szymon Giżyński, Senator Ryszard Majer, councillor of the municipality of Krzepice Damian Pilarz, who is besides a associate of the Programme Board of the Law in the Częstochowa region, and Vice-President of the Kłobucki territory Council, Maciej Mońka.
‘Military harvest’
“Military harvests” was besides organised by the village of Jedwabne on 27 August that year. As you can read on Białystok.tvp.pl, “For residents it is not only an chance to meet and have fun together. The festival was accompanied by a military picnic, attended by Deputy Minister of National Defence Michał Wiśniewski".
Common harvests were combined with a military picnic. Michał Wiśniewski stated that farmers and troops have a common task – they care about the well-being and safety of Poles, including the inhabitants of Podlasie. The military picnic was to be an “educational” attraction, during which 1 could perceive to the military orchestra, meet soldiers and talk.
During the commune-parochial harvest festival in Jedwabne there was not only a more than twenty-man military orchestra, but residents besides had the chance to get acquainted with military trucks, quads or militant humvee. Children who wanted to see guns had the chance to effort on many types of long weapons, including sniper weapons.
"Soldiers for harvest, tanks for fairs, that is how the PiS turned the army into an election machine". Mr. Blaszczak, you're not getting distant with this. Even for the communes, the army was in barracks or on the ground, and it was not "girls" impertinently utilized by organization activists
— Konrad Lichota (@ KonradL2009) November 9, 2023
