The work of Polish politicians should be, in all circumstances and in all geopolitical constellation, to destruct the threats that may lead not only to the failure of sovereignty but besides to the demolition of the full nation.
This second origin is most fresh after 1945, erstwhile the planet entered the era of atomic weapons. After planet War II, Poland was exposed, in the event of a conflict between the West and the USSR, to demolition as a consequence of a massive attack of American atomic weapons. specified plans were revealed by Western media in 1964 and caused a shock to the Polish opinion on emigration. This is why Poland was expected to become the first victim of atomic retaliation in the event of the outbreak of war. Today, after declassified any of the U.S. documents, we really know precisely the objectives of atomic strikes.
They were located in the area: Łeby, Tarnowa, Przemyśl, Mrągowa, Gliwice, Powidza, Dęblina, Wałbrzych, Bielawa, Jędrzychowice, Ludwik Kłodzkich, Dzierżoniowa, Żarowa, Świdnica, Sosnowiec, Władysławowa and Włocławka. The list besides included 2 large cities: Poznań and Warsaw. The erstwhile was intended to bomb the airports of Bednary, Krzesina, and Elbow. In turn, in the capital, American strategists calculated 15 targets worth bombing utilizing atomic weapons. These included transport hubs, port on Wisla, energy infrastructure, tv infrastructure, aviation command, weapons and ammunition depots and railway workshops. In addition, the bombs were to fall on Bemowo airports (here I now live), Okęta and Modlin, as well as on targets in Ożarów, Piastów and Pruszkow. On American maps, the names of Polish cities on Western lands were given in German!
The Polish authorities were aware of specified threats, especially after the October turn. Gabriel Zmarzlinski writes: “During the 12th Session of the UN General Assembly, on 2 October 1957. Adam Rapacki spoke memorable words: "In the interests of Poland's safety and relaxation in Europe, after agreeing his initiative with another members of the Warsaw Pact, the Government of the Polish People's Republic declares that if both German states agree to implement the ban on the production and retention of atomic weapons in their territory, the Polish People's Republic is ready to introduce the same ban on its territory." In the planet of diplomacy and politics, they are known as the Rapacki Plan on the creation of an atom-free region in Europe.
Adam Rapackand (photo of the Museum of independency in Warsaw)
It was a sovereign squad decision. Władysław Gomulka. The author of the Plan, Adam Rapacki, was not a communist at all, he was a pre-war PPS activist, who – interestingly – was a prisoner of German olags during the war, where he became friends with... Jędrzej Giertych, with whom he corresponded after 1956. Rapack's doctrine was Klarowna – the danger of war, including, of course, atomic warfare, must be removed from Poland at all costs. The only way Rapacki saw was to deescalate, peacefully coexist and free our region of Europe from atomic weapons.
Adam Rapacki (second from the right) in the German oflag (photo: Museum of independency in Warsaw)
What are the current Polish “elites” doing? In a published interview with the “Financial Times” president Andrzej Duda He called on the United States to deploy atomic weapons in Poland as a deterrent against possible aggression from Russia. " NATO borders moved east in 1999, so 26 years later there should besides be a shift of NATO infrastructure to the east. It's apparent to me," said Duda, adding that "it would be safer if these weapons were already here." He expressed hope for the extension of the atomic Sharing task in Europe, which was unsuccessfully proposed in 2022 by the administration of the then US president Joe Bidena.
How do you measure that? Is filling gasoline into a fire an action to prevent a fire? Are the provocative proposals, having only for the sake of Poland's safety – not an action against the Polish nation? Doesn't this look like a crazy death want to paraphrase the title of 1 of Charles Bronson's films? What would be the change in Poland's situation compared to the erstwhile period? It was then that the Americans had a detailed map of atomic impacts on Poland, and now Russia would have specified a map.
The most disturbing, however, is something else. Here is 63 percent of Poles express their approval for specified ideas, subject to the illusion that atomic weapons strengthen security, which is the consequence of many years of war hysteria, which was intensified after 2022. It is besides the reverberation of the story popular in the period after 1945, which included the phrase: “One atomic bomb and we will return to Lviv soon”. If specified “thinking” is inactive in many Poles, then it is the work of politicians to neutralise it and not fuel illusions. It's amazing that he does that for them. J. D. Vance, The Vice president of the United States, speaking about the "proposal" of Andrzej Duda, "I have not talked to the president about this, but I would be shocked if he supported the deployment of atomic weapons further east of Europe. We're talking about the future of human civilization. There are people who have dreamed of leading us to a atomic conflict, and Donald Trump is leading us in precisely the other direction.”
Jan Engelgard
