However, he was helped by entrepreneur Maciej Radziwiłł. When asked if he felt that he was de facto replacing the Polish state with the erstwhile candidate for president of Belarus, Maciej Radziwiłłł stated that "of course he did".
Let us add that it supports not only Belarus, but besides many another people, environments and initiatives (e.g. the Free Belarus Museum or the Belarusian Youth Hub in Warsaw). It allocates funds from the 3 Trump Foundation (Radziwill household Foundation) and its private funds to aid the Belarusians.
In the case of the erstwhile leader of the Belarusian opposition in question, the current maintenance (food purchases, acquisition of medicines and others) is not the only problem. This man had serious medical problems that deteriorated after he was infected during surgery in a infirmary in Poland.
Interestingly, he decided to operate in our country and not in Germany, where he besides had the opportunity, due to the fact that he was afraid to cross the Polish-German border. His fears were due to the fact that he ran out of Polish visa and at any point he was staying illegally in our country. When asked if politicians who were very eager to photograph with him a fewer years ago were able to aid him in this matter, the Belarusian politician replied that he had long stopped trying to call anyone.
Health issues were fortunately resolved, and he helped the erstwhile National Prosecutor's Office, who, having household contacts in the medical community, managed to organize the essential rehabilitation.
We left Poles too
The situation described above is unfortunately not exceptional. Similarly, they were forced to flee Belarus by leading activists persecuted by the government of Alexander Lukashenko of the Union of Poles in Belarus (ZPB)
Their stories in January in Rzeczpospolita were described in a dramatic text by Ruslan Szoszon. From his reportage emerges precisely the same image as in the previously described case. It shows that the leaders of ZPB located in Poland are either unemployed or working for minimum wages. The norm is the situation where university lecturers work as cleaners or fry fries in fast-food networks.
However, real drama begins erstwhile it comes to people aged 70-80 who can either no longer find any work, or due to their age and condition, are no longer able to work. Onetu's editorial work is known at least 1 case of a individual who, having encountered the wall of indifference of Polish politicians, offices and foundations, has brushed with a suicide attempt.
Cynicism of Polish politicians
Polish politicians who not only willingly photographed Belarusian oppositionists but besides encouraged them to actively fight the Lukashenko regime, at a time erstwhile the public is curious in the Belarusian issue to a lesser degree than before, they have completely lost interest in the people they promised to aid and to whom – let us make this very clear – aid should be given.
Above all, however, this aid pays off Poland. Its deficiency means that the opposition in Belarus will not want to work with our country. Indifference, cynicism, thumiwism and political stupidity in this substance combine, let us add, politicians of both the current coalition and the opposition. Worse yet, this has been the case for years.
AP/Associated Press/East News / East News30 August 2020 Tens of thousands of demonstrators showed up on the streets of Belarusian cities after falsified presidential elections
We even betrayed the man who dissolved the USSR.
In the “Demon from behind”, i.e. the book about Belarus and the Lukashenko regime, I described the communicative of the first president of Belarus Stanisław Szuszkiewicz, who was not only a friendly Poland and a pro-Western Democrat, but above all a man who signed with Boris Jelcyn and Leonid Krawczuk so-called Belarusian agreements that put an end to the existence of the USSR.
Describing the 2010 event, I wrote: “As I remember today, erstwhile (Szuszkiewicz) came to the embassy asking for a visa. Of course, the visa was issued, only six months later Stanisław Stanisławowicz came again, again with a request for a visa. I was very amazed due to the fact that Schengen visas can be issued annually and for 2 years and for 5 years. It was clear to me that the erstwhile president of the State and the man who was 1 of those who led to the dissolution of the USSR should have a five-year Schengen visa. So I called the consul and in consequence I heard that “they all seem to be getting visas.”
I'm going to bring up 1 more passage of my book:
"It was most likely in 2013 or 2014. I was just leaving the Presidential Palace where I paid a visit to the President's Chancellery. My gathering was expected to last half an hour, but it was short-lived, due to the fact that the celebration of the Constitution was starting. erstwhile I left, I met Stanisław Szuszkiewicz in Krakowskie Przedmieście. I asked him if he was just going to the organization due to the fact that it seemed to me that it was perfectly natural that the erstwhile president of Belarus should be invited to the celebration of the Constitution on 3 May (i.e. the Constitution, if not to look, the First Republic). Stanisław Szuszkiewicz told me that he was at the Palace just 2 days earlier at a meeting, but nobody invited him.
Radek Pietruszka / PAPStanisław Szuszkiewicz, Warsaw, 2013
I wanted to be ashamed. I invited Mr Stanisław for coffee at the Bristol Hotel, and then apologizing to him that I had to usage the toilet, I called Jack Michałowski asking if it was possible urgently, of course apologizing for the mistake, inviting Stanisław Szuszkiewicz and honouring him accordingly. Michałowski responded positively, but unfortunately he did not give instructions in a clear adequate manner, due to the fact that Szuszkiewicz was invited by 1 of the officials of the President's Chancellery, but not as the erstwhile president of the neighbouring country should be invited, that is, with the proposal that a car will be sent (and it does not substance that this car would should be run only a fewer meters), But in specified a way that Szuszkiewicz heard that there is simply a organization and can come. Szuszkiewicz repeated this to me and then went to the party. I don't mean to say that he was a man who wanted designation so much due to the fact that there wasn't even a shadow of that in him. He was simply a man besides cultural to refuse, even if he was invited in a rude way. Unfortunately, as in the mirror, the full weakness and drama of the Belarusian opposition are concentrated.
Here we request to explain what Szuszkiewicz was doing in Poland. Aleksander Lukashenko did not valorize him after his retirement hyperinflation. As a result, Szuszkiewicz's pension in the figure was worth about $1. And the man who never took a penny in public had to simply make extra money for retirement, or alternatively for the welfare he was getting. Poland decided to give him help, and this aid was not to grant him a prize, accompanied by a check for $100,000 or half a million dollars. It was aid in the form of low-paid lectures at the University of Warsaw.
Let us add that Szuszkiewicz lived in at least a mediocre 1 or two-star Harenda hotel at the time, while, if any, he should have lived at the expense of the Polish payer in Bristol. And never gotta work a single day. And not even due to the fact that he had merit for Poland, for Belarus, and given his function in the dissolution of the USSR – besides for the world, but due to the fact that that is how politics is done. Signals are sent to Polish friends that Poland will remember them.
Poland has never done anything like this. The past of the old age of Stanisław Szuszkiewicz is the past of Polish shame. As in the mirror, it is centered by the full pseudo-Wielkopanian, and in fact to the plebeic rudeness and contempt, which our attitude towards Belarus and the Belarusians is based on. Including the opposition."
A clear signal to the Belarusian opposition
It is apparent that Poland will not be able to aid anyone who had to flee Belarus. The fact that we are not able to aid even the erstwhile president, the erstwhile presidential candidate, and besides the leaders of the Polish minority, is simply a disgrace to the Polish state.
The fact that we wash our hands with people to whom we have long gratitude, and in any cases we have besides made circumstantial commitments, sends only 1 to the Belarusian opposition and independent environments, but for this Very bad signal. There should be nothing to do with Poland, there should be no connection with Poland, there must be no Poland and it must be assumed that everything that Poland promises is worthless.
Corruption, stupidity, or act on behalf of Moscow
The beneficiary of the popular belief already in the Belarusian opposition that this is the case, unfortunately only Russia. specified a proceeding is the same as the 1 under the Polish east Policy, for which we spend no tiny amount.
The problem is that these funds are more frequently spent than on the Belarusian opposition, or on independent groups, to the Polish-controlled peculiar services of foundations and centres, which spend their money on maintaining themselves.
Real activity is, in the meantime, a waste. The fact that this has been going on for at least 20 years and that no substance who governs Poland, nothing changes in this respect proves that we are either corrupt or stupid. The 3rd option would be that we are infiltrated by a Russian agent and sabotaging our future not out of folly and not for money, but for a contract from Moscow.
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