1) During the ceremony commemorating Polish officers murdered by the NKVD there was a provocative situation. The Polish Embassy in Moscow informed that there were groups of activists who shouted hostile and anti-Polish slogans.
2. At the very heart of the Katyń Memorial, there were plaques forming an exhibition entitled “Ten centuries of Polish rusophobia”. The exhibition was organized by the Historical and War Society. A while ago, I was watching pictures of these plates. In my opinion, it is not completely honest, and thesis about the strict alliance of the Second Republic of Poland with the 3rd Reich, posed by Russia as the heir of the USSR is even ridiculous.
3) Polish monuments in Russia have besides disappeared in fresh years. This happened, among another things, in Piwowaricha close Irkutsk, where an obelisk commemorating victims of political repression in the 1930s in the russian Union was removed. Demolitions depicting Polish military awards, including the Virtuti Militari Order and the Cross of the September Campaign, were removed from Katyń Cemetery.
This is very sad for me as a Pole. But I'm not surprised. For years I have written in the pages of “Polish Thoughts” that the historical policy of the governments in Poland, the unreasonably support of the anti-Russian historical policy of Ukraine and the demolition of places commemorating private soldiers of the Red Army will have consequences mourned for our nation. Let me add, from the army in which many Poles served.
I am more sad to say that further escalation will consequence in many akin sad events – including the liquidation of a memorial dedicated to an air accident in Smolensk. And then possibly the elimination of these truly crucial monuments for Poles.
These events are not pleasant for us Poles. However, we must face them. Titan of Polish political thought Roman Dmowski wrote: “Everything Polish is mine: I cannot renounce anything. I am allowed to be arrogant of what is large in Poland, but I must accept and humiliate the nation for what is mediocre in it.” At this point, we should consider the reasons for authorising specified actions by the Russian Federation authorities. How much blame there is on those who regulation in Poland. What's incorrect with our nation? It's essential in the future to effort to remedy this.
1) Screaming and rumbling at Polish diplomats who laid wreaths on the anniversary of the NKWD execution on Polish officers. Let the outraged politicians, journalists and commentators remind themselves of the yearly circuses celebrated by Ukrainian and proukrian communities at the Mausoleum of russian Soldiers in Warsaw. I saw it with my own eyes, and I was truly terrified of the insolence of the loud demonstrators. Even the aged who refused the rosary in this cemetery were vulgarly challenged. Let the outraged callback the attack on erstwhile Russian Federation ambassador Sergei Andreyev. And a discontinued investigation into the case. But specified events took place not only in Warsaw.
2. I'm not very smart and I'm personally upset about the board exhibition "Ten centuries of Polish rusophobia". Let outraged politicians, journalists and commentators callback the obscene installation depicting Russian Federation president Vladimir Putin. The president of a neighboring country presented as a penis. And this was placed in front of the cemetery, where the fathers and grandparents of many Russians lay.
3) The liquidation of Polish monuments in Russia. I regret that memorial sites commemorating Poles in Russia disappear. However, let the outraged politicians, journalists and commentators callback dozens of ritually destroyed at the command of the Institute of National Memory (IPN) of russian soldiers who fought against Germany for present belonging to Poland. Let them go to the cemetery in Sosnowiec-Zagórz and see what was done with the grave of the russian soldiers buried there. I late cleaned out this grave of dog droppings and bottles.
If anyone may resent these situations – they are not supporters of the unreflexive historical politics of the post-solidarity camp and not supporters of the unreasonably supporting unaccounted for from the bloody past of Ukraine. Including those defending the tradition of flagism! due to the fact that it is their actions that consequence in these painful events in Russia.
It is us - people who realize the request to establish relations with our neighbour, who is the world's largest country – that can live with anger. We're sorry about that. We can say that we are outraged at the events in Russia. Our political environment is not surprised. We predicted precisely what this historical policy would lead to. Just due to the fact that I realize the reasons doesn't mean I'm justifying these circumstantial actions of the authorities in Russia.
Have politicians, journalists and commentators expressed outrage erstwhile at the same time a memorial commemorating, among others, soldiers of the Home Army was removed in Poland? The Russians didn't do it!
This is not a joke! Yesterday, a monument to the Armed Action was demolished in Polichno, dedicated to soldiers of the Home Army (AK)! This large monument by Antoni Białas was originally dedicated to the Armed defender and the People's Army. In the 1990s, the monument was modified and dedicated to the commemoration of soldiers from both 1920 and those from 1939 to 1945. It besides included dates 1939 and 1956, separated by the sign of the Fighting Poland. This was the case of the Monument of Armed Action and commemorated all Polish soldiers fighting for the sovereignty and independency of Poland – no substance in which formation they fought. The monument lost to any commercial investment. I have not heard widespread opposition from politicians, journalists and publicists.
The battles with the Hunwabins of the IPN-ism are now underway to save the Memorial in Pyrzyce with the inscription “God-Honor-Home”. It is worth noting that the Memorial of Memory is protected by the 1994 Polish-Russian intergovernmental agreement on graves and memorial sites of victims of war and repression. Pyrzyc residents in consultation did not agree to its demolition. The monument underwent “decommunization” and commemorates all soldiers fighting for independency and sovereignty of Poland. He was consecrated by a Roman Catholic clergyman. I do not hear the widespread outrage of politicians, journalists and publicists!
Łukasz Jastrzeżski
Photo for a spin. Margaret Rabbit.
