The audience of the artist caught the attention of the media not only due to the fact that it immediately bought all tickets, but besides due to scandals: any fans started fights with the police, and in the stands appeared the flag of the Ukrainian Insurgency Army (UPA), in Poland primarily associated with the Volyn massacre. The consequence of the authorities was immediate. Prime Minister Donald Tusk announced the deportation of respective twelve people.
However, this was not the first performance of Korzh in the capital. Already the day before, on 8 August, the musician gave an illegal performance on the areas belonging to the PKP in Warsaw Wola. The local residents complained about sound and fireworks, and respective twelve police units were sent to the site. It is not amazing that the full situation has aroused the emotions of the media and politicians. Even before the Prime Minister announced the activities of the service, he made a notification to the D.A. Dariusz Matecki. His comments on the X portal were clear: – Do you have the strength to yell at a Polish stadium with the flag of genocide killing children, and you have no power to defend your own homeland? Get out of Poland!
In a akin tone, the Euro MP of PiS spoke Dominik Tarczyński: – Yesterday, gentlemen from Ukraine (in draft age) rescued themselves at a performance in Warsaw, and now it's time to go home to defend their country. Confederate Konrad Berkowicz's policy was even stronger: – So you're saying there's no flag? And yesterday after the National Stadium in Warsaw with the UPA flag, the dwarf ran around? Such voices could propose that the case fits into a typical division – the right is outraged and the left is downplayed. However, Max Kore's performance eluded these schemes.
On a thoughtful comment came the presently connected with tv Republic Cezary Gmyzwho wrote: – ... I'm getting a hatred shot at Ukrainians or Belarusians after a performance at National. Those I know personally are decent, usually hardworking people. If it wasn't for them, all sectors of services, agriculture and orchards would have no place to do. These words hit a point. all day we look at migrants from Ukraine and Belarus mainly through the prism of work – we see them behind money, at collections or in courier companies. We seldom see that they are besides people with their own culture and complex identity. Korż's performance was the minute erstwhile this “hidden world” became visible. The media were eager to exposure the pushes with the police and the presence of controversial symbols, but the shock that the public experienced would be equally strong even without it – the fact that the artist from Belarus sold out the National Stadium became a surprise to many.
This aspect was highlighted by the writer Przemysław Gulda in Virtual Poland: – Poles and Poles are amazed present that Korzh sold out the stadium in Warsaw? The residents of London are most likely just as amazed erstwhile another Polish stars, specified as Kult or Brodka, fill the clubs there. The same was the surprise in fresh York City erstwhile Budka Sufler played in the prestigious Carnegie Hall performance hall there.
Further went the creator of documentary films Tomasz Piechal, writing on his blog: – However, all this happens in a closed circulation of migrants who hold ties between themselves, but their paths – apart from formal and business situations – do not frequently intersect with Poles. And it is simply a phenomenon that is worth considering. Especially since you can see the emotions it gives, the shock and the waves of the negative. Meanwhile, Poland simply stopped being a monoethnic country and it will not be. This will make large emotions and will be a immense challenge to face. Poland already has its second microworld and it is worth looking at, trying to realize and learn how to live with it. His aggressive rejection will only be an effort to close his eyes to a reality that will not vanish in the coming years. And it would be good if we thought about how to do it, so that it wouldn't end with interior conflicts and bad emotions..
The infantry said what another observers may have felt. Poland – unnoticed, frequently against its own ideas – has ceased to be a monoethnic country. The emergence of the second migrant microworld brings not only diversity, but besides major challenges: from historical tensions to fresh lines of social division. And it is here that we come to the paradox – we have been saying for years that we cannot "make mistakes in France", but in practice we do precisely the same. We accept the presence of migrants in the workplace, but we do not let them to be seen in culture and media. Can anyone name a Ukrainian presenter on Polish television? Or a program aimed at the Ukrainian community? The answer is obvious. 1 of the fewer exceptions appeared in Netflix's series “Go Forward, Brother” where the Ukrainian actor played 1 of the main roles. The reaction of any viewers was symptomatic: – You force this Ukrainian to push, as if the Pole was gone – written in comments. This was not just an aversion to 1 production, but evidence of a deeper belief that migrants could be tolerated as workers, but not as equal participants in social life.
