Dear Polish friends!
We have a difficult, shared past and a common right not to like each other.
Different Viewpoints
On the 1 hand, for 8 months now, you have been watching Ukraine find itself in a state of war which it has not begun, but must lead it – a war with Russia. The policy of the Russian Federation has long been subject to legitimate criticism of the European community and so Poland helps Ukraine as far as possible – it accepts refugees, provides military equipment. It is simply a manifestation of hospitality typical of the Slavic soul.
On the another hand, fresh months have been a communicative of handshakes, demands, wishful thinking, unnoticeable signals and pretense over promises that have not been kept, as well as a clear example of how any countries are trying to break their dependence on the United States.
Only option
The people of our countries have had a different way of reasoning for centuries. We stand at the interface of 2 civilizations, the Russian and Western mentality. These mentalities are based on diametrically different values, which can, however, coexist. The fight against Russia over the past 3 decades after the dissolution of the USSR was about trying to impose values on our souls that did not give us anything. We're all in favour of peace. But there's a time erstwhile you can't sit around. The masks are down. No 1 can defend the interests of the Russians and the Russian planet but ourselves.
Many Poles immediately after the start of the war constantly asked me about the attitude towards these events; some, without even seeing my answer, began to behave aggressively, insulted me.
I propose that current events be considered a systematic quest to rebuild the Russian power destroyed by the Anglo-Saxons and their supporters. If we look at it from this point of view, everything will become clear.
Current events are the only way Russia can live and grow. I know that this will require a cleanup in Russia itself, a fresh strategy for the transfer of power and the upbringing of the nation.
Times are challenging. Russia moved from a dead end. We see all mistakes, including the mistakes of our leaders. Can they be fixed? I guess so.
Differences
They frequently ask me where the differences between us come from.
As for us and the Ukrainians, everything is clear: Ukrainians have a complex of "younger brother" towards us.
And what prevents us from knowing each other? Of course – historically shaped relations related to dominance in east Europe.
You think the West defended Poland's statehood after planet War II. That Josif Stalin had to accept the rules of the game imposed on him by Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Winston Churchillinsistent on the emergence of independent Poland. Poland has become the largest state of east Europe and at the same time a country with a unique cultural structure. It was the largest not only in terms of the surface, but besides the population. Regardless of how you did not curse us, after the Second planet War, about 9 million Germans (to Germany) and Ukrainians (to the USSR) were resettled by the russian Union's decision. Poles from western Belarus and Ukraine appeared in their place. Genocide and emigration of Jews besides played an crucial function in shaping Polish monoethnicism. Besides, the russian Union did not insist on collecting agriculture in Poland. And this was the basis of the transformations in Polish society in the 1980s, that you could feel like hosts on your land, your farms and farms. In the USSR, the sense of being a “host” disappeared as a consequence of collecting everything possible.
The events of the past year call into question the monoethnicity of Poland, due to the fact that millions of Ukrainians who have come to you bring with them patterns of behaviour and mentality formed inactive in the times of the USSR, which for you is alien.
Three years ago, you were fortunate that a wave of migrants from mediate East countries did not go to Poland, but now, dear friends, I feel sorry for you.
Analogue
In fresh months we have collided with quite a few information about the armed conflict in Ukraine. There are plenty of recordings that should rise questions about Ukrainian authorities. On any of them we see defenders of Ukraine, whose full bodies are tattooed with Nazi slogans and symbols, on others we see dead people dressed after civilian people with their hands tied behind them, thrown into a collective grave. We see how executions are carried out on the civilian population without any action and court; people are bound up, shot and thrown down. any of them may inactive be alive and die being buried alive, suffocating themselves from their land. This treatment is unacceptable to prisoners of war, civilians, or even war criminals – in the 21st century the court or tribunal should decide their fate. Many Ukrainian defenders talk openly and their Nazi beliefs. For example, an advisor to the administration of the Ukrainian President, Alexey Arestovich stated after regaining control of the areas of the Kharkiv region previously occupied by the Russians that all residents who accepted humanitarian aid from the Russian Federation would be considered as collaborators and would “be expected either in prison or in death”.
Dear friends, does this remind you of anything? Does this not awaken in your memory your association with events of 80 years ago, erstwhile during planet War II German fascists besides executed civilians by throwing bodies killed in ditches and pits?
Additionally, in the territory of the Ukrainian Socialist russian Republic, these executions took part in ranks Einsatzgruppen Members of Ukrainian nationalist organisations. The same who organized the Volyn massacre in Poland in 1943, an act of genocide, resulting in the execution of tens of thousands of Poles, including infants and pregnant women. Today, past repeats itself.
Are you truly helping those who request this help? Are you certain you should support descendants and supporters of Nazi executioners who drowned Poland in blood in the 1940s? And won't modern Ukrainian nationalists take on Poles again if they win in winning the war against Russia? present their main opponent are the Russians, but will not Poles be next? After all, judging from fresh events, their concepts of the superiority of the Ukrainians over another nations and methods of combating them from 80 years ago have not disappeared, but on the contrary – they have only developed, strengthened and are now officially supported at the government level.
From Kiev to Riga
Many of you remember the alleged pact Józef Piłsudski and Semena Petlura from 1920, under which the Ukrainian People's Republic (URL) joined the alliance with Poland, which, in fact, resigned from Volyn and Galicia at the same time. It was then over a 100 1000 Polish army, in which little than 15 1000 military URLs fought, managed to occupy Kiev for respective weeks. Soon, however, the Bolsheviks recovered the capital of Ukraine and then reached Warsaw. As a result, the Polish-Soviet War ended with the Riga Peace concluded in March 1921, under which Poland recognized not only the Russian Socialist russian Republic, but besides the USRR, and undertook not to support attempts to return the petlurists to power.
Today Poland is training the beginning of the Ukrainian military territory and these actions began long before the European Union's mandate was announced, as the Polish Prime Minister acknowledged Mateusz Morawiecki.
After more than a 100 years, the EU military mission gives Poland an chance to "winter offensive" in Ukraine. There is simply quite a few analogy: training camps in Poland for Ukrainian military people, who gotta fight in winter (training usually takes 2 to 3 months, so they will finish them in January – February), and the same opponent – Russia... The only difference is that the European Union is paying for the training, but it is not crucial for a country in rusophobia.
Quo vadisPolish?
Lydia Kowalyeva
(Moscow)
