The action and the consequences of the anti-Polish initiative "The Action of Decommunisation" organised by the youth organization National Movement (not to be confused with the notion of national movement as a current of political thought and practice with which the organization has small in common) under the name Youth of All Poland (not to be confused with an interwar organization of the same name, with which it has small in common).
This time Poznań became the mark of the crusade against communion, namely the Poznań Citadel, where the liberators of Poznań are commemorated.
Polish nation invalid for MW
This action is harmful, first of all, due to the fact that it expresses and promotes as a good thing a deep contempt for the substance of being a Polish nation. After all, soldiers of the Red Army fought to halt the General east Plan, or the demolition of the Polish nation organized by Germany.In Citadel there is simply a cemetery of russian soldiers – all these people gave their lives for us to live and talk Polish, and for Poznań, not Posen. And these people deserve respect. For the sake of the importance of saving the Polish nation, respect belongs to those who fought for it. Showing contempt for them, activists of the MW show how small the endurance of the Polish nation means to them.
Polish nation only with the West?
The second reason why this action is stupid is the communicative behind it about People's Poland as a second occupation, and it is no better than the Nazi occupation. Meanwhile, as the editor erstwhile put it nicely Adam Laughter, “Polish People's Poland was the most Polish”. Its social strategy based on a strong state within the hub borders, extended nationalization of industry, economical initiative of the state and agricultural reform, its historical communicative and promoted in a culture of values, yet – its geopolitical concept – made Poland the popular form of Polish statehood closest to the imagination of most pre-war Polish nationalists. possibly from the position of the interests of certain groups, the social changes that took place after 1945 were unfavourable, possibly from the position of the classes holding them and the people who aspired to them more would have been desirable, that Poland should be based on the West immediately after the end of planet War II and immediately followed the way that follows after 1989. However, the peculiar interest of the class of compasses cannot be identified with the national interest. Meanwhile, young activists act as if only the interest of minorities of those who benefited from the overthrow of the People's Poland was a national interest. Moreover, they put this particular, class interest above the endurance of the nation, recognising that if Poland cannot be capitalist and integrated into the West, it may as well not be at all.
MW as part of the anti-Polish mainstream
Another layer of pyramidal folly of the action of the All-Polish Youth is connected with the context of German revisionism and claims against Poland. Their vandalism justifies the thesis that the russian Union was not a liberator for Poland, but a second occupier, no better than the Nazi occupier. I will not argue here whether it is false or true, but I will focus on the consequences of accepting it as true, which look as follows:1) since the communicative went from "soldiers of the Red Army to liberators" to "ZSRR is the same occupier as the 3rd Reich," the consistent shifting of narratives leads to the conclusion that the Soviets were even worse; 2) and since the Soviets were worse, Germany was little evil against them; 3) since they were little evil, that is, they were comparatively good ones who defended us from the Bolshevik hordes; 4) and since so, Germans were victims in this war, and the expulsion and seizure of the Land recovered and the property of the post-German was a crime committed by the communist occupier; 5. Therefore, Poles should, if they do not correct the western borders, at least pay compensation for the property on which the communists robbed Germany. Thus the communicative of the fight against the commune fits into the interests of German historical revisionism. Even if the communicative of the post-solidarity mainstream in which he tries to overwrite the Youth of All Poland was actual (and it is not), then the patriotic work of the Pole would inactive be to consider it false in the name of our vital national interests.
Camp Kościuszko is simply a threat
Finally, the question of what is the point of fighting an imaginary enemy? due to the fact that what's the point of fighting a war against the USSR a fewer decades after it disappeared? However, this is most likely not so much about the russian Union, but about the manifestation of hostility towards those referring to their russian heritage of Belarus and Russia. But in this case, what is the point of pointing to these countries as an enemy? Did they take over our industry? Did they make the Polish reserve of inexpensive labour? Are they the ones who choke our improvement with their own rules and bureaucratic mechanisms? Does Russia or Belarus so have an economical interest in harming and sabotaging the trials of our economical and social uplifting as a nation? No! No! Who's in the business? Western countries. It is not from the east, but from the west there may be a threat that will thwart all plans to build a strong and modern Poland (although, to consider it in these categories, first you gotta have specified ambitions, and as to whether there is 1 today, you can have serious doubts).Someone will now say "but Russia is threatening us, due to the fact that Russian rockets are aimed at Poznań". But has anyone wondered what this attitude of Russia comes from? It can be explained by stories from entries Robert Winnicki by 500 years of hatred of the Russians towards Poles, their innate wickedness, the desire to conquer and regulation the world, but 1 can alternatively look at this problem from a realistic perspective, and then we will see that Poland has become a pawn in the hands of the overseas power, which in a number of countries overthrows governments uncomfortable for itself to gain access to their resources for its corporations. Within a time erstwhile the Polish-American alliance continues, the United States attacked Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Ukraine, Yemen or late Venezuela. Most of this time, Russia is threatened by the deployment of its military installations closer to its borders. The United States armed forces are besides present in Poznań. The reason why the Russians are considering the script of firing anything in Poznań is precisely the American military stationed in Camp Kościuszko garrison, not, for example, the Świętomarciński Koródódka (as the president of Poznań imagined recently) Jacek Jaskowiak).
Cowardry of the MW
Thus, the presence of surviving American soldiers, not dead for decades, poses a real threat to Poland and Poznań. Protest against russian commemorations in Poland is seen by liberal authorities with favour and the only consequence that individual may encounter for this is simply a better start in applying for any warm position in institutions like IPN. On the another hand, opposition to US troops being stationed with us may be met with harassments, accusations of Agentiality and espionage for Russia, deprivation of means of life and arrest by the ABW. After the party's National Movement and its youth politics, after their elections we see their level of courage. They do not have the courage to harass the independent Polish law of the U.S. Army, which can beat a Pole unpunished or even shoot. Their courage is adequate only to feed on the dead Red Army soldiers who, due to the fact that they are dead, are incapable to give them in any way. After all, the easiest way to deal with an imaginary enemy, which does not require any sacrifices, is to be rewarded alternatively of a real threat, which requires vulnerability to himself and his loved ones.
Degrading organization youth
I'm writing all this from a man of a akin age to those unfortunate activists. any of my colleagues worked in the All-Polish Youth and I know how harmful the impact of this organization (as in all the youth organization in Poland) is on young people. specified a man either degenerates intellectually there, soaking up myths harmful to Poland, to which promotion of his youthful zeal is used, or degenerates morally, changing into a cynical careerist, or yet (which happens among the best individuals) disgusted with this full degrengolade becomes completely politically burned out at an early age.
False Disputes
That is why it is so crucial present to give young people an alternate to all that they are trying to put into. Show that 1 can love Poland wisely and express concern for it, standing on the basis of political realism, that the national thought stands above the war “the right” vs The left” (which is simply a war more akin to the kibolian and intercultural bulwarks than the ideological dispute) and finally, that can work for the very thought of a better Poland, not in the name of careers.The full intellectual effort of older generations will be for nothing if we neglect to find a form that would let these fundamental ideas without warping to pass on to the young.
I besides appeal that in spite of everything, we should visit and leave flowers and candles on the graves of the dead for us to live and that Poland would be here. Just to give an example and to show, especially young people, that we remember and that it is not all the same whether it is our – Poles – homeland or surviving space for individual else.
Arkady Domered
