Prof. Anna Raźny: The Fall of Civilization of Poland (2)
The present-day Russian phobia in Poland is not just a reaction to the war between the collective Western and Russia in Ukraine. specified a reaction would be understandable if Russia made any territorial, financial or military claims to us.
It is the another way circular – there are voices from Poland about Moscow's reparations for the Second planet War or about the return to our borders of Królewiec. Moreover, Russia did not send its tanks to the Polish border, while Poland organized an global coalition for sending German Leopards to the Ukrainian front. This in turn caused an unexpected reaction not only of the Russian authorities, but besides of the Russian society: we are again threatened by German tanks, as during planet War II; it was the West – with Poland at the head – that the war in Ukraine would be our fresh homeland war. After all, Warsaw is taking further anti-Russian actions in the field of politics and accompanying various forms of diplomacy, culture, science.
Resenty or phobia?
A careful analysis of these actions leads to the conclusion that they are not just a consequence to Russia's entry into the civilian war in Ukraine since 2014. They have deeper historical-political and moral-psychological backgrounds, which indicate the accompanying anti-Russian attitude of referring Polish politicians to both the imperial and communist past of Russia. Truism is the fact that the constant determinant of the anti-Russian actions of Warsaw is the American-Natovian and at the same time the EU's "stopping" programme of the Russian Federation or even breaking it up into respective twelve tiny political entities. The Ukrainian issue is only an auxiliary component in this programme. The anti-Russian activities of Warsaw include both the past and the present of our east neighbour. Their goal is different versions of the formula: Russia has no and cannot have a future. The most spectacular example of specified a policy of Warsaw are its speeches on the EU forum as the leader of the sanction war, demanding another – this time the tenth – package of sanctions.
Equally spectacular was the adoption by the parliament of a "pionarian" resolution recognising the Russian Federation as a state sponsoring terrorism. The ruling camp joined the resolution with the alleged amendment Antoni Macerewicz, which places Russia liable for shooting down Malaysian aircraft in July 2014 and for the crash of Polish aircraft in Smolensk in April 2010. Last year's Polish Presidency of the OSCE led by the Minister of abroad Affairs has already passed past Zbigniew Raua. Everything Poland has achieved in this episode comes down to 1 fact: the exclusion of Russia from participating in the proceedings of this organization and the rejection of its dialog and peaceful direction, which was replaced by pro-war actions.
Fortunately, Austria, which has now taken over the Presidency of the OSCE, announced the restoration of its first character – with Russia's participation in its deliberations. A task akin to that performed by Z. Rau late took on the Polish Minister of athletics Kamil Bortniczuk, which contrary to the UN's position came with the initiative to set up a coalition against Russia's participation in the next year's Olympic Games in Paris. specified racist exclusions from Western space include not only surviving Russians, but besides long-term dead creators of Russian culture. Minister Piotr Gliński announced their elimination from the Polish cultural space last year, as confirmed by his anti-Russian policy ministry.
It is hard to answer the question whether Poland's attitude is an expression of its sentiment or phobia towards Russia. Rather, it is both at the same time, with the concept of resentition being the justification of the moral-psychological dimension of this highly negative attitude towards our east neighbour – though difficult, yet Slavic and Christian.
In the case of resentiveism, it is interesting that an highly negative mention to Russia began to dominate the formation of Polish consciousness and national identity after the collapse of communism and the dissolution of the russian Union. At the level of anthropology and political psychology, it is incomprehensible to increase the importance of anti-Russian sentiment for rebuilding Polishness in the situation of our political, military, economic, cultural independency from Moscow. Paradoxically, the more Poland succumbed to Westernization and Americanization – through membership of NATO and the EU – the greater its reluctance to Russia, obtaining various forms of hostility that led Poles to full racist hatred of Russians.
This attitude – controlled by Washington – Warsaw wants to impose the full European Union as a constant given in relations with Russia. Similarly, the United States has imposed its moral collapse on the collective West, and now imposes on Ukraine, where the triumphs of LGBT propaganda, abortion, surrogacy business, hidden by Polish media, are banned in most EU countries. It would seem that in the context of the ongoing war in Ukraine, Polish rusophobia will not surprise the world. Yet she amazed – through the declaration he made on behalf of the Polish Republic Andrzej Duda during his last visit to Latvia. The president has declared to build an iron curtain "up to the clouds" between Poland and the EU and Russia. This message is courteous adequate to require separate discussion. Not only due to the historical, political, and civilizational dimension of the fresh Iron Curtain, but besides due to the accompanying presidential declaration specified negation of the Russian Mirus, which contains the politically founded falsification of it. Andrzej Duda brought the political-religious concept to the “poorness, misery, grandfatherhood” and the proverbial string to the snob. On the another hand, he omitted the fundamental ideas for the Russian miru of the Holy Ruth, Moscow – 3rd Rome, a council of personalism, shaped within the Orthodox community. He deliberately omitted all of this, which gives the concept of Russian miru a metaphysical-religious and eschatological dimension, completely eliminated from the political, social and civilizational space of the West.
Has Poland become the leader of anti-Russian actions on the global phase – above all, in the EU – due to its eternal resentation – a sense of undervalue in relations with Russia and the acceptance in them as a Polish national code of the thought of rematch for the harm done to us? specified a mechanics degrades us to the level of paganism imposing vengeance for the intent of our actions. In addition, the classical resentyment – according to its description presented by Max Scheler in the work "Resentyment a Morality" – reverses universal order of values by camouflage rematch.
Polish politicians and the media behind them and the opinion-making environments do not camouflage anything, they clearly say that the triumph of Ukraine is essential so that Russia cannot be in its present form. specified an attitude of publicity of the goal stems from the accompanying sentiment of phobia before Russia.
The manifestation of anti-Russianism itself is alternatively a manifestation of phobia as a persistent fear of Russia. In both intellectual and sociological terms phobia is an exaggerated fear, giving birth to irrational reactions to the causes causing it. Excessive reactions impair average functioning – they block mechanisms of social harmony, trigger dangerous actions.
Losses and destruction
Fear of Russia's attack on Poland translated into allegedly preventive actions of Warsaw through the reinforcement of Ukraine, which was intended to aid defeat the aggressor. Not only did it not bring the triumph of Kiev announced by the war propaganda, but it distanced them from it, prolonged the war, increased the number of its casualties and the size of its war damage. In turn, the transportation of arms on the Ukrainian front included Poland among participants of the ongoing war.
This dependence was clearly expressed by the Prime Minister of Hungary Viktor Orban, claiming that countries that send weapons to Ukraine become parties to the conflict – no substance what their politicians say. He besides stressed that the country financing the budget of 1 of the fighting parties – in this case Ukraine – is becoming a sponsor of its increasingly modern weapons. V. Orban's statements mention above all to Poland, which is increasingly financing Ukraine – unconditionally, without any warrant of return even a symbolic percent of the costs of this sponsorship incurred by Polish society. Moreover, this issue is simply a taboo issue in the public debate – Poles must not ask about it, they must not uncover it. Even image and civilization losses are taboo. Silence in this respect is only a confirmation of the fall of civilizational Poland. alternatively of Christian civilization, we are dealing with a collage of civilization in which Christian transcendentalia – truth, good, beauty – has been saturated with negative content that contradicts their first meanings.
The only thing that has yet to be authentic and, fortunately, inactive alive is the sensitivity to human suffering and harm to individual relationships, including people of another nationalities and cultures. Therefore, no 1 questions Poland's humanitarian aid to Ukrainian war victims. Nobody asks about the amount of money behind it. Aid to the suffering and hurt is inactive a manifestation of humanity – even in a deformed civilization.
Prof. Anna Raźny
photo by Andrzej Duda at the UN in 2018 (wikipedia commons)
Think Poland, No. 7-8 (12-19.02.2023)
