Bożena Ratter: Poland connects in our souls with the thought of justice, freedom
date:19 June 2024 Editor: Anna
Patriotism is the love of Homeland. And the homeland is an inheritance, e.g. in the case of Polish patriotism specified a heritage is Poland. Our generation of Poland did not create, but Poland was found. They created her erstwhile generations, and there is simply a commitment. Since we have found Poland, which the erstwhile generations have created, it is our responsibility, the present generation, not to lose this heritage, not to deplete it, but to enrich it even better – explained editor Stanisław Michalkiewicz.

Unfortunately, we do not fulfil this work by not responding to anti-Polish actions. prof. Lech Ludorowski, president of the Henryk Sienkiewicz Society, spoke about this in an interview:
The anti-Polish stereotype of Poles – Lacha is very good in Ukraine. “Taras Bulba” was and is simply a school reading. Lacha's painting, mainly nobles, was completely negative in Ukrainian literature. The noble is simply a murderer, a thief, a rapist, a cruel man. This kind of painting was besides popularized throughout European culture and even planet culture by the 1842 fresh by Mikołaj Gogol "Taras Bulba". It turned out that this novel, filled with the atrocities of Lachów and hatred of Poles, was translated almost immediately into all European languages, and later in the era of cinema – thanks to the efforts of Russians and any another environments – became a subject of screening. The first was a 1909 Russian silent film, the second was a 1924 mute. Then, in 1936, the French-American version was created with the participation of prominent actors, and in 1961, the French-Italian film, which crossed all Europe and both Americas. The latest screenings “Taras Bulby“ were created little than 10 years ago.
Hatred is glorified by another anti-Polish Ukrainian literature belonging to the canon - “Hajdamacy” by Taras Shevchenko from 1841. The poem is simply a uncommon example in literature of specified ruthless, apologetic approval of crime. The poem is filled with specified terrible atrocities, virtually with waves of blood, fire, death, calling for the killing of Lachów, i.e. Poles, without limits, that even discourages me from an analytical approach – explains the professor, the author of analyses of Henryk Sienkiewicz's work.
Unfortunately, we do not fulfil our obligation, we agree not only in Europe and in the world, but in Poland, on the depreciation of heritage received from erstwhile generations. Allowing the creation and publication of works and statements lying Polish past in universities, in the media, guides, even in any alleged Kresowe publishing houses.
Anti-Polish stereotype works. In order to show the existence of Ukraine as a state (Ukraine was created in 1991, previously a socialist russian republic) centuries ago, it liquidates in Ukrainian and even Polish (sic!) historiography, created for our money at Polish universities by Ukrainian scientists, the existence of east Małopolska as a territory of I and II of the Republic. It replaces the name Galicia or region, and Poles, Armenian Jews surviving in Lviv (and another Polish cities) in 1918-1945 is called Galician population or society or population of the region. The Galician population can so be classified as Banach, Weigl, Twardowski, Szajnocha, Teodorovich, Axentovich, Bryla, Schulz, Slovak, Korzenowski, Herbert, Pola, Bruckner, etc.
In 1918, after 123 years of occupation, we regained Małopolska as part of the Republic of Poland. Empress Mary Teresa was a universal, i.e. a letter to everyone, dated 11 September 1772 announced the seizure of parts of the Polish lands, later called Galicia, to Austria. Galicia died at the fall of Austro Hungary. From 1918 to 1945 it was inactive the Republic of Poland. Dr. Majer Balaban, Nestor judaic Polish historiography, Polish historian, orientalist and educator of judaic origin knew this very well. He was considered a leading historian of Polish Jews and taught Judaism at the Polish universities of the Second Republic.
He wrote in the Acts of Jews in Galicia and the Republic of Krakow 1782 -1868: The Republic occupied Austria in 1772; since then, Polish Jews have become Galician Jews and have passed various railroads according to Vienna's plans and the order of politics. But the geographical concept of “Galicja” is changing a variety of years, as at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries the Napoleonic wars surrounded Austrian estates from various sides, already in favour of the Duchy of Warsaw, already in favour of Russia.
Unfortunately, the Ukrainian version of the past of east Poland is reproduced by politicians, advisers to presidents specified as Bogumiła Berdychowska or Przemysław Żurawski a.k.a. Grażewski. Wojciech Jankowski in the Morning of Wnet quoted a fragment of the speech by Marshal Małgorzata Gosiewska from the celebration of the 76th anniversary of the genocide in Janowa Dolina: The crimes were committed in the idleness of the German garrison. And so the place that could be a symbol of improvement became 1 of hundreds of graves, witnesses of crimes committed by Ukrainian nationalists in Volyn and in east Galicia.
We let the Polish heritage to be depleted and the false anti-Polish stereotype to be preserved by the people from the Turkish civilization, which did not account for the fascist crime of genocide in Poles, Jews, Armenians, Czech Republic. Majer Balaban is simply a translator of judaic elegies commemorating events of the mid-17th century, cruel genocide on Jews and Poles.
The first Cossack rebellions began respective decades after the Lublin Union. In the 1990s the Cossack Kosinski uprising broke out, a fewer years later - Nalewajki, in 1625 - Żmajly, in 1630 - Fedorovich, in 1637 - Pawluka, Ostranica in 1638 and yet in 1648 the Chmielnicki War, which was a terrible blow to the First Republic. Later came the 18th century, an era that besides became celebrated for its terrible slaughters. Unfortunately, this was repeated in our past with astonishing regularity and accompanied by these murders with peculiar cruelness – said prof. Lech Ledurowski, born in Kowl in Volyn, witness of the genocidum atrox of the 20th century.
These are events that are hard to get back to. Memoirs of that time cost me a lot. The idyll of my childhood abruptly became September hell 1939. I watched Poland die. I saw Polish eagles torn down and trampled, white-red flags, tablets dropped with Polish names. russian captivity lasted a year and a half. By a miracle, we escaped Siberia. In June 1941, another front of my childhood broke through a shelled burning city. The fresh German “order” was based on the monstrous direct panic of immediate death. I have seen public executions and "softer" forms of coercion: catching, beating, humiliating. But shortly the German panic was imposed - the scariest of all - the horrifying panic of Ukraine - the prof. recalls. (Anti-Polish stereotype Prof. Lech Ludorowski)
In the Patriotic-citizenic essay, Henryk Sienkiewicz's service to his Homeland prof. Lech Ludorowski cites Henry Sienkiewicz's instruction on Homeland: A beautiful slogan: "through his homeland to humanity" (from a survey I think of Germany, 1905) developed the author in the following comment:
(...) The first work of a actual patriot is to guarantee that the thought of his Homeland does not just stand in contrast to the happiness of mankind, but becomes 1 of its foundations. ... We, Poles, realize the thought of a homeland, (...) for Poland connects in our souls with the thought of justice, freedom, the right of life for all and the thought of the improvement of human principles.
Oh, my God.