Once in a while, MP Robert Winnicki shares with humanity the pearls of his thoughts. He's besides done it recently. These pearls are so many that I will only quote here their test.
"Soviets did not bring the Poles “emption from gas chambers” and “bankers”, only together with Germany destroyed the Polish state, which was our warrant of security. – wrote Winnicki. After that, he clearly started and wrote further – German gas chambers in Poland and the flag genocide in Poles are the direct effects of ZSRS policy and criminal aggression, the genocide of the Red Army in September 1939. Poland had 2 criminal occupiers, Nazi Germany and russian Russia during planet War II. Their armies were our enemies at all phase of the war. Even erstwhile they fought each other. Attempts to represent Soviets as “liberators” . Attempts to represent Soviets as “liberators” are anti-Polish nonsense.”
Cute, isn't it? It is simply a pity that Robert Winnicki, for example, did not get to know John Paul II, who preached this “anti-Polish nonsense” in his 1996 book “Dar and Mystery”. The Pope wrote: “I stayed in this peculiar seminary, under the side of the beloved Metropolitan Prince, starting in September 1944, and there I met with my colleagues on 18 January 1945, the day – or alternatively the night – liberation. At night, the Red Army arrived in the vicinity of Krakow. The retreating Germans blew up the Dębnicki Bridge. But I must return to the long months ahead liberationIt’s okay. ” Furthermore, if Winnicki had found any evidence from the era, otherwise highly rich and scientifically developed, he would have found that the perception of these events as “liberation” was common at the time.
It would be tempting to ask, “Why does Winnicki tell specified blankets?” Then immediately answer yourself that it does so out of invocation. Since it cannot be described as an over-educated person, it would be fundamentally a correct answer. However, it would not be true, in the sense that it would not affect the essence of the problem. For akin wisdom now falls equally not only from the mouth of eternal boys who could not complete any studies but besides from the mouth of highly titled professors.
The question is so more interesting “why?” Why do politicians and commentators repeat thesis as if taken alive from the propaganda of the “Gossip of Krakow”. Well, they do so for various reasons. any do it ideologically, most frequently with grotesque anti-communism ineptly masking actual rusophobia. Others enthusiastically repeat the inspired androns to erase not so much the content that they erstwhile preached, but even those that were attributed to them. inactive others, and those are the most, simply want to roar in the strongest choir. Which 1 of these groups is Winnicki – I have no idea. And it doesn't substance at all, due to the fact that to which it doesn't belong, it puts it in my eyes as a politician.
In spite of the opportunists, the spies, and the rude liars, it is worth preaching the truth. Not just due to the fact that it takes decency. First of all, due to the fact that false past is simply a master of false politics. Seeing the past through the prism of our own phobias, dreams, and delusions, we are doomed to misunderstanding it, and that is what goes on to draw incorrect conclusions from it. So let us one more time remind you of the basic facts.
At first glance at statistic that let to compare the scale of certain phenomena. The war effort and the years of the German business brought to Poland an immensity of suffering including about six million (estimations scope from 4.5 to 6.1 million) deaths among citizens. Almost half of them were cultural Poles. For comparison, the IPN estimates the number of victims of communism between 1939 and 1989 as 150 000 of which the lion's share is between 1939 and 1941, so importantly before 1944. So, comparing both periods, we face a threat to the biological existence of the nation on the 1 hand and crucial nuisances on the other. It's a immense difference.
The wartime anti-communists seem not to announcement that the German business period was just... the business period. Poland as a state ceased to exist, a abroad administration was introduced. Meanwhile, during the period of dependence on the USSR the Polish state not only de jure but besides de facto existed. Although initially the PRL was totally dependent on the east neighbour over time, it gained an expanding area of sovereignty. So the situation is completely disproportionate. The message that “one business has been replaced by another” is an illustration of the emotional state alternatively than the facts. It's all obvious, easy to verify in any sources and designs. However, in the context of a spurious, false propaganda spill from all sides, it is worth reminding.
How was liberation? The sentence: “The Red Army, which entered Poland in 1944, liberated the country from German occupation.” is virtually true. The liberation of individual from something does not mean a day of his “freedom” in the sense of his ability to act according to his own will. That's what actually happened, and in our case. Poles liberated from the deadly threat of the German occupier were given in the package a long-term dependence on the USSR, an unwanted socio-political strategy – communism and puppet government. However, as a nation, we survived and preserved our statehood. So it could have been much worse.
Besides, no triggering or "slowing" was the goal in itself. The Red Army did not come to Poland with a humanitarian mission. This was the shortest way to Berlin. The road leading not only to defeat Nazi Germany, but besides to gain hegemony in Central and east Europe. In the context of the above, regret that the Red Army did not give us back our golden freedom handsomely to more exalted children than to serious people. For we live not in a kingdom of happy ponies where there is good, harmony and friendship, but in a real planet where business governs.
Probably besides in 1944/1945 Poles felt liberated or liberated to a very different extent. For the 7 1000 prisoners of the Auschwitz camp, whom on January 27, 1945 the Red Army pulled out straight from the embrace of death was definitely Liberation from the capital. The inhabitants of “Warta Land” subjected to peculiarly severe germanization felt relief, it was the end of respective years of gehenna for them. And that despite the discomfort that the liberators themselves have introduced for a while. For underground soldiers, the future was dark. They did not want specified “liberation.” but they didn't get any other. The alternate was simply liberation to all the harm and suffering of this world, which brings death.
A separate subject is the subject of the “liberation” of the Earth Recovered. Here I utilized quotes full consciously and intently. Lands recovered by the Red Army and the Polish Army were simply conquered and as a consequence of the decision of the Allied (de facto Stalin) handed over to Poland. It is 1 of the few, but it is simply a immense benefit which Poland has gained from the hecatomb of the Second planet War. In the publications of native “anti-communists” there has been a lamentation of the destiny of the population of the areas. It is nothing more than entering German historical politics.
Should we so be eternally celebrating the Red Army? Definitely not. The russian Union carried out its business here and benefited from it. Although in 1944 (as opposed to 1939) he was not an aggressor, he imposed an unwanted alliance and a strategy in which we were stuck for half a century.
Realistic perception of the past process, however, is not at all contrary to showing simple respect for fallen russian soldiers. Soviet, and not only Russian, but besides Ukrainian, Belarusian and Polish, due to the fact that in the Red Army even respective tens of thousands of Poles incarnate in it served. They were all victims of this war, regardless of cultural and social origin, religion and education.
So let us not lie past to the current political needs, not resulting in any way from the Polish reason of the state. Let us not take a abroad perspective, what our "real patriots" do in ideological blindness, due to the fact that this is frequently a point of view towards Poland hostile. But above all, let's not get emotional. Let's usage our brains to avoid being deceived by primitive propaganda. no of the sides.
Winnicki's words, on the another hand, stay to supplement the shortcomings of his own education. As the parliament does not work (it is at the close top of the seym “wagaroviches”) it most likely has quite a few time for this. Expanding cognition will benefit not only him but us. Even so, we will little frequently feel embarrassed listening to his next thoughts.
Przemysław Piasta
