Solidarity
with the British people in Breslaw (Wrocław) during the March of
Polish Independence, organized by radical nationalists which have
friends in Britain. That valuable attitude can’t, however,
substitute for a reasonable consciousness of main dangers for Poland
and Europe.
Screenshot
from YouTube video: Wielki wrocławski Marsz Niepodległości 2018
As a
result of the lifting of the Warsaw's Mayor ban on the independence
march by the court, Polish nationalists, after tough negotiations
with the government, gained at least many concessions.
The
procession of inhabitants of the capital of Poland as well as guests
from other parts of the country and abroad finally took place under
the name of Independence March.
Some
symbols of nationalist groups were also allowed.
The
banner of the National Radical Movement with the picture of his
founder and first leader Jan
Mosdorf.
This Polish gentry gentleman and great thinker of German origin, was
murdered by the Nazis in Auschwitz
concentration camp
in 1943. Warsaw, 11 Nov. 2018.
Screenshot
from video material done by Oleg Malzev.
This
gave rise to the sharp criticism of the ruling party Law and Justice
on the part of the so-called mainstream mass media (neoliberal
running boys) in the Western countries
A bigAmerican newspaper: “But hundreds of yards behind the officials
from the governing Law and Justice Party were far-right
activists known for promoting racist, homophobic and supremacist
slogans.”
Germanpublic television: “It was the first time that representatives of
the Polish state held an Independence Day rally together with such
right-wing organizations.”
An
average Western countries citizen was bombarded with headlines like:
Warsaw blocks far-right march. But later: Polish state leaders hold
joint march with nationalists on anniversary of Independence Day. The
main stream Western media are, besides, filled with such
reports being indeed a lot of phoney information.
One
wonders: what do the participants of the march have to say?
I
do not want to strain the patience of my readers and that's why I'll
limit myself to just two examples here. The first is the beautiful
girl from the picture above.
She told the rapporteur of the Polish Radio (Paweł Kurek, Polskie
Radio 24):
- Tell
me what do you wish for the future?
- So
that all people take the slogan: God, honor, fatherland, to the
heart.
- [...]
And what is the independence?
-
Independence
means being sovereign, being fair. [...] Simply getting rid of all
the issues that bind us to countries that do not allow us to show our
Polish ideals.
A
hundred-year-old war veteran: “For
100 years, the Poles dreamed of the regained independence and managed
to realize that dream. We were not become the seventeenth Soviet
Republic, and everything indicates that we will be a sovereign
Republic. The Polish Republic, which will cooperate with all the
peoples of Europe, for the good of all humanity.
Not
only with the peoples of Europe, but of the whole world.
We
will not pay homage to the cosmopolitan financial oligarchy, as
servants of the golden calf
who
wants to impose a world without any limits or borders,
where peoples should be tyrannized
by money.
Long live the sovereign republic of all Poles!”
The burning of the EU flag by Poles, Italians and Slovaks followed about the same time.
A
Pakistani as well a whole Chinese group: Glad because they live and
work in Poland
Of
course, they spoke English:
“It's
definitely an amazing experience. [...] It's definitely one of the
great experiences which I had so far in Poland. [...] It's a nice
celebrating feeling, you know? There is a great celebration around
and you can feel that high energy and it makes you feel good.”
“I
traveled much throughout Europe. I'm here in Poland for the first
time and I knew about that great event here of the Polish people...
Also because the Polish past is very alike to the past of China. So
I'm very excited. To the Polish people; you have developed your
country very fast. It's like more and more modern than before and
it's good, it is good for us.“
Terrible and true: The PiS government is bringing immigrants from other cultures in large numbers to Poland
The
Polish Government signed the Marrakesh
Political Declaration
on the 2nd May 2018 about „the management of migration flows in all
their aspects” between West and North Africa and European Union
member states. The provisions of this agreement were fiercely
criticized as a total
capitulation against massive immigration flows
by the Government of Hungary, which rejected it as fouling up on
basic needs of common people in Europe.
According
to official statistics of the Republic of Poland, only in the first
half of 2018, the number of foreigners with a valid residence permit
increased by 230 thousand. The work permit also received over
3 thousand citizens of Bangladesh and 1.4 thousand citizens of
Azerbaijan, and this speaks mockery of assurances from government
officials about refusal of immigration of workforce from Muslim
countries.
This
simply means that this supposedly
conservative government
has invited
Asian and African economical
immigrants to Poland.
It is now to be feared that the disastrous consequences of such
events, which Western Europe has already felt, are also imminent in
Poland. All over the world, the Polines and the Poles commemorated
the century of independence. Soon the Polish people will be forced to
look for security and bread all over the world, or ... Isn't that
already the case?
The
young people with good education are Poland's lifeblood; we have
assigned them to England, Ireland and Scandinavia
"The
opportunity to work abroad, which was achieved for young Poles", who
was besides educated in this country for Polish taxpayers' money, was
not a "great success", as the dominating in Poland
political parties are claiming, but one
of the most hopeless disasters
in the painful Polish history,
the impact
of which
the small
and medium-sized cities throughout the country already feel.
After the loss of one to two million of our best people, there are
122 Polish cities full
of the breadlines.
According
to the analyses of the Polish Academy of Sciences, almost half of the
255 medium-sized cities in Poland are threatened with marginalisation
and lasting crisis. One of the residents commented on this situation:
"Łuków in the Lublin Voivodeship expects the same. Nobody
wants to stay here. All of them leave after graduation and return
only to their parents for the most important holidays. Only people
with primary and secondary education remained. It is a disaster for
this city, a few years more and empty houses will
stand in Łuków."
The
loud march of right-wing radicals in Breslaw (Wrocław)
Jacek
Międlar and Piotr Rybak - organizers of the gathering of
radical nationalists declared that the March of Independent Poland,
which had gone through the streets of Wroclaw on November 11, was to
be judged as a great achievement of the National Radical Camp
and allied political groups.
However,
the former priest (Jacek Międlar) expressively condemned the
incident near a pub named Barbara, when glass bottles and torches
were thrown out of the crowd that fell on the counter-demonstrators
(the so-called Antifa), injuring three people.
Piotr
Rybak, in turn, stated that the Breslau's mayor's decision to
dissolve the assembly ten minutes before his scheduled end was a vile
provocation. The city president tried to ban this march, but
the organizers turned to the court, which overturned the president's
decision.
The
protest march of the Breslaw nationalists was dissolved after the
beginning of theirs leaders’ speeches on the Breslaw market square.
However, the event’s organizers had no problem to complete what
they had started. They continued their speeches. It's just that they
started using unloved words.
The
police did not followed orders,
the only results of which could be riots, destruction of property and
unnecessary victims. It is besides a typical
behavior of the Polish police in such situations.
It was,
unfortunately, just a knee-jerk nationalism. The young men showed
simply a kind of reflex action as their response to the
large-scale and well-prepared plan to get rid of them as an
independent political factor.
They
don´t even try to find some suitable answers on the
threats that can seal the fate of Poland,
They just don't notice most of the threats!
I
heard the speeches from the tribune on the market square of Breslaw
(Wrocław) heedfully.
Only
the opposition to the European Commission's policy can be considered
reasonable.
Otherwise,
the walls of Breslaw (Wrocław), heard only such slogans as:
"We
do not want a sickle or a hammer! The red scum will have to pay!"
Perhaps it should be translated in English that way: “Use
a sickle, use a hammer, smash the Red rabble.“
Or: “We don't want communism! We do not want this anymore! We want
return Vilnius and Lvov to Poland!“.
All these few hours afternoon and evening only such slogans and
speeches.
If
even, as the organizers of the march claim, about 50 thousand
people gathered on the demonstration (250 tousands in Warsaw),
they made in the end only a lot of noise and successfully
discouraged the community at large, and especially the middle
class once again. It is not surprising that a fairly strong group of
national-minded Polish intellectuals, with historian Jan Engelgard
at the top are not at all in favor of such a
nationalism.
In my
personal opinion the national radicals got their priorities
wrong, perhaps except for protest movement against the EU, also
some new international contacts. But they are still in desperate need
for more proper and substantial mottos and methods if Poland shall
be saved.
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