Paweł Machcewicz in his latest book, National communism in Polish. ‘Partisans’ of Moczar, resembles the character of Zbigniew Załuski and his book published in 1962 Seven Polish Major Sins. It was a virulent polemic with “sneers, nihilists and pacifists” (such as Andrzej Wajda as manager Ashes), who dared to express doubts about the Polish insurgent tradition and raised the request to make another patriotic patterns than romanticist national-library struggles.
This year's anniversary of the outbreak of planet War II proved to be another proof that more than 60 years later, Załuski's historiosophy is inactive alive. Its continuation and modification ‘historical policy’ In the release of the Law and Justice Agency, it destroyed competition in the race for the title of the best fuel driving Polish hearts and global policy of our country.
A minute after the second circular of patriotic applause removed hostile elements from the flagship project The written version of the history, i.e. the Pilecki Institute, Bąkiewicz's national militias blew false information on Monday of folding a German wreath in Berlin by a janitor in a jack. The biggest trading partner spits in our soup 86 years after the war! It's time to sit heroically in Donald Trump's waiting room, the last friend of Poland, sending regularly stuff from America – unfortunately not for free.
On 1 September, president Nawrocki besides raised the eternal subject of reparation, and he was supported by footballers, supporters, priests and seniors. 1 could miss the time erstwhile Paulina Matysiak, who is working closely with the Law and Justice Office today, spoke of “the fair settlement of the Polish-recovered land property”, possibly for the first time on specified a scale. with the power of the nationalist element. Today, the temperature of patriotic elevations is so high, and national consent is common that a akin "mind short" would send Matysiak to where the Ruchniewiczs winter.
Asertiveness of hekatomba
However, individual completely green about Polish assertiveness might be surprised. As Putinowska Russia pushes from the east, and the main safety guarantor is invariably located behind the ocean and is managed by unstable politics, the Polish state ration turns out to be Union removal and demanding a key ally to pay the reparations. And these, let's add to the margin, from the position of global law They're actually unattainable.
In the context of actions of right-wing politicians to the rank of symbol (by football reason) the loud message of the deceased Paul Zarzejny, who seamlessly combines the match between Poland and Germany with the settlement of "crimes which we cannot forgive".
The list of specified crimes is increasing. And although the Bridegroom's emotion speaks to many, let us not deceive ourselves – it has nothing to do with rational politics, alternatively with cheery dreams. Robert Krasowski wrote after the Smolensk disaster: “If we have specified a dramatic request for loyalty to our ancestors, at least let us not call it historical politics, let us not call it politics at all. Let's face it, there are crimes we don't forgive, and we're in a loss. Let us then estimation their size and let us openly say that we pay so much for our honor, pride or whatever we call it."
A fewer years later, Caesary Michalski He wrote on our pages, that built on the memory of the Warsaw Uprising "historical politics could only become a tool of the cunning of reason if they taught Poles political realism, the values of the state and politics, the values of alliances, the values of fighting for specified a form of geopolitical environment, which would supply us with at least a minimum of security, freedom and improvement opportunities". Well, it doesn't seem like anything's changed in the last decade erstwhile it comes to learning to build alliances, coming from museum activities.
Both journalists wrote thousands of signs about the smallness of Polish historical policy, which is based on the belief that erstwhile the full planet understands how large the victims were, it will immediately start to treat us in partnership. He may even recognise our moral superiority, and to Poland will flow billions from reparations, compensations and tributes. For those who caught on to press discussions from the first decade of the 21st century, the spectacular return of this kind of melodramatic lies is simply a well-known song.
Poland repaired, or Israel 2.0
They are not alien to this strategy. It is ironic that in a society that is medium-hot to discuss the Holocaust, in which the increasing popularity is enjoyed by ideological, sincere anti-Semit Grzegorz Braun, the full right-wing, Messianic political strategy He draws from Israel by hand. erstwhile Arkadius Mularczyk estimated that our biggest trading partner owed us six trillion zlotys, Jarosław Kaczyński talked about sharing the loot, that "if the State of Israel were curious in any kind of participation in this undertaking, with appropriate financial implications, we are open to specified talks."
If the Polish-Israeli alliance could enforce “long”, we could anticipate further ideological transfers. After all, Poland not only imitates Israel's historical policy or monitors people with Pegasus, Poles not geese, but Netanyahu consulted on the improvement of justice with PiS politicians long before 7 October 2023. However, the country that slaughters Palestinians besides developed a model of state management, which in Poland will fall on susceptible ground.
It is widely described by Eva Illouz in the book Emotional Life of Populism, published in Poland by Gabriel Narutowicz Institute. It is simply a secular postpopularism, circulating around 4 key emotions (fear, disgust, resentiment and love) and built around 3 dimensions: material in the form of economical neoliberalism, political in the form of authoritarianism and symbolic in the form of conservative nationalism.
Sound familiar? Illouz shows how easy a country of sectitistic democracy, operating in the realities of permanent emergency, reaches for procedures suspending the law – we saw it well erstwhile “without any mode” cases were taken into their hands by self-appointed border defenders, and the Prime Minister, on the basis of trivial premises, deported to Ukraine teenagers taking part in Max Korża concert.
Instiling fear and implementing the sieged fortress syndrome on all level of political life in Poland suggests that authoritarian tendencies of Polish voters will not be offended if, for money from the reparation, Poland and Israel start building countries according to a akin model. More arms, more surveillance, constant enemy creation, most frequently in the form of a left, human rights supporters or life-saving immigrants – all for a false promise of safety in a planet where the top political gold is to rise all danger to the rank of existential threat.
Resistance propaganda and progressive isolation
The anti-German propaganda of PiS, already impervious, and in the era of president Nawrocki surely not gaining on subtlety, crossed with constant lamentation over Polish sufferings, whitewashing of past by focusing on Poles saving Jews, the specter of Russian imperialism and war, economical and climate refugees at the border, promises a truly unpleasant spectacle.
As Michalski quotes again from August 2015: “Today, the full right of PiS-owska and oko-PiS-owska mention to the story of the Warsaw Uprising as a model of assertive interior and global politics.[...] This is not the responsibility of the Warsaw uprising itself, which we should treat as a fatalist task to be reworked, but a right-wing historical policy that has made the story of the Warsaw uprising an instrument of bad past promoting not only bad politics, but besides the behaviour of a pathological and pathological attitude to its own history." This text is valid 10 years ago, 20 years ago, 63 years ago, just after the Prime Minister of Załuski – and present painfully strengthening a sense of inalternativeness and sinking into nationalist madness.
The contempt and complexes towards Germany are a cocktail of unwavering firepower. Let us proceed to follow the Russian propaganda of fairy tales about the bloodthirsty flagism of Ukrainians, denying their own ultranationalist sympathy. Cultivate laughter worthy of fantasies about the Mediterranean As something like the League of Conferences, gameplays that we can surely handle. Let us deny the fact of interest in matters completely different from Poland from the world's top powers. It is simply a flawless recipe for progressive isolation and grotesque celebration of the position of eternal sacrifice in territory surrounded by enemies. There will be no reparations, for that pride and honor we will pay.
