I can already hear the political "elity" III IV of the Polish Republic erstwhile re-entering its main sewer media if the Russians had led monuments in Katyń Cemetery to a akin state.In my first instinct to see the immortalized above, I thought of Catholic principles ordering the state authorities to respect the burial sites of the dead, no substance who they were in the temporal life. But I rapidly realized that this was not the address. What has to do with Christianity, the chieftain of the Law and Justice, Jarosław Kaczyński – a descendant of Jews (or Talmudic mongols) from Odessa? How to attribute Catholic religion to the PO chief, Donald Tusk., since the same church wedding didn't decide until 2005, just erstwhile he was moving for president of Poland? So I chose a more cautious option – referring to the principles of Western civilization, so willingly emphasized by both politicians.
The above presumption was verified on Sunday, May 18, 2025. Coming back from Marian Sanctuary In Gietrzwald with my brother, I decided to visit Braniewo, the first capital of Holy Warmia. The reasons for this visit were respective but 2 most important. The first is the desire to enter the Braniewska Land Museum located in the erstwhile Hosianum – a university founded by the Servant of God cardinal Stanislaw Hosius (1504 – 1579), a steadfast and effective defender of Catholicism against the Protestant storm surrounding Warmia on each side. The second reason, more personal, was to refresh memories from 1953 – 1966, erstwhile Braniewo was the place where my brother and I spent our childhood and early youth. The museum did not manage to visit (it was closed due to the presidential election) but the remaining points of our "programme" were realised with respect.
On the way from Braniew to Frombork, we were intrigued by the destroyed entrance gate to Soviet Soldiers Cemetery. Otherwise, we remembered this place from a time when, together with another students of the schools, we had to participate in the celebrations of the successive anniversary of the triumph over Germany. Not being stopped by anyone, we drove in a car until under a magnificent monument, or alternatively what was left of it. In short – I have not seen specified a devastated cemetery in a long time, from the torn tablets on the mentioned monument, through broken gravestones to the effectively blocking grass.
In 2021, the Russian side proposed to invest almost PLN 8 million out of its own funds to repair the largest ocropolis of russian soldiers in Europe. Until today, she had neither consent nor answers. What is worth noting; we are talking about the burial site of 31.000 (say: thirty-one thousand!) soldiers of the Red Army killed or dead due to the wounds suffered in the fight against the Nazi occupier in the areas which fell to Poland after planet War II. That's twice as many as the population of close Braniew. And 1 more thing – on a abroad land for them, about 600,000 (in words: six 100 thousand!) of the Red Army died. It would so be essential to show “anything” more respect than that with which graves of the dead are treated in societies who claim to be civilized. Especially from the side of hundreds of thousands of alleged "repatriates" from the ends of the Second Republic, who hit the economically and culturally civilized Earths recovered just due to the blood spilled by soldiers chased on the front line with "repronounced" (so-called Russian revolver) by polytruds and NKVD officers, mostly judaic origin.
These gravestones, which are far from their state in favour of hundreds of others, are excluding the effect of the individual efforts of families of buried soldiers. They died sentenced to the goodwill of the county, provincial and central ducks in the implementation of the bilateral agreement of Poland and Russia, they do not experience specified care. However, I would have given up the conversion of the Polish-speaking rabble to an attitude worthy of a civilized man, if not for the clangor raised 3 days after our return from Braniev by a certain man Radosław Sikorski, POPIS of the apparatus (chief of the Ministry of Defence at Kaczyński, head of the Ministry of abroad Affairs at Tuski). On Wednesday, May 21st this year, “Radek – Betrayals” powerfully and strictly protested against the removal of the reliefs of 2 military honours on the premises Polish War Cemetery In Mednoje. According to the Russian prosecutor, their presence was illegal and the symbols were considered anti-Russian.
Commenting on this event, the POPiS minister said: "Let me remind you that in Poland in cemeteries we tolerate symbols of the russian state, we tolerate red stars. Here the symbols of the Polish state were taken off at the Polish military cemetery. This is unacceptable." So there was nothing else to see if the scandalous state of the Russian military cemetery in Braniewo was just an isolated case of intolerance at local level.
It is hard to believe the Bravian official's version of monthly mowing of grass in the cemetery.I started with the City Office in Braniewo, which is subject to 6.5-hectare necropolis of russian soldiers, the largest in Europe. The head of the Environmental Protection Department reserved his personalities only for the journalist's information but answered the questions specifically. In the current evidence year the city received from Warmia-Mazury Provincial Office Exactly... 22.800 PLN for monthly mowing of grass. This amount, nevertheless much higher than the erstwhile amount, is not adequate and is supplemented by the resources of the city.
I considered it advisable besides to read the position of the another party, as the flowers and 2 wreaths under the monument visible in the above photograph (folded most likely on 9 May this year, in Russian triumph Day) it is hard to consider as a manifestation of peculiar concern for the graves of the countrymen. Hence, the call to the nearest Russian Consulate, located in Gdańsk. Here, yes, they admitted to submitting wreaths, but in order to comprehensively explain the presented doubts they sent back to the Russian Embassy in Warsaw.
On Friday, May 23rd, at the address mentioned above, I sent an email with the following content:
‘Good morning,
Last Sunday, May 18th, I visited the russian Soldiers Cemetery in Braniewo. I haven't seen specified a devastated burial site in a long time. According to the information obtained, the City Office in Braniewo receives about PLN 20 1000 per year from the Warmia-Mazury Provincial Office (for this year precisely PLN 22.800) which is not adequate even for monthly mowing of grass.
My question:
What is your care of this cemetery and what rules govern Polish-Russian cooperation on this matter?
I will be obliged to respond as rapidly as possible, especially in the context of the fresh fast reaction of the Polish MFA to the removal of the plaques from the cemetery in Mednoje.
Sincerely –
Henryk Jezierski’.
Taking into account the weekend period, I did not wait long for the answer from the Russian Embassy, as only until Tuesday, May 27th. This is the content, with the emphasis on those passages that I considered to be the most important:
‘Sir,
Thank you for your letter of May 23rd and your indifference.
In relation to your questions regarding the sad state of the russian Soldiers Cemetery in Braniewo (Warmia-Masurian Province), the powers of the Embassy in the field of care of this facility and the regulations governing Russian-Polish relations in this area we kindly inform the following:
Russian-Polish relations in the field of memory care – Russian in Poland and Polish in Russia, regulates Agreement between the Government of the Russian Federation and the Government of the Republic of Poland on graves and memorials of victims of war and repression of 22 February 1994.
Under that Agreement Poland has undertaken to preserve in appropriate order Russian memorial and burial sites in its state territory.
By 2021, the Russian side financed major repairs of russian military cemeteries in Poland as a motion of good will, spending about $1 million annually for these purposes.
In 2021, the Polish authorities ceased to grant approval to carry out repairs at the expense of the Russian budget, without which the Embassy is incapable to organize repairs.
When planning the renovation of the full russian Soldiers Cemetery in Braniewo for 2022 and spending almost PLN 7.7 million for this purpose, the Embassy in the period October – December 2021 requested approval from the Polish local authorities and the then Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship. Neither the answer nor the consent of the Russian organization has yet been received.
Using this opportunity, we propose that you visit the website of the Embassy of Russia in Warsaw (www.poland.mid.ru) where you can read the list of localities in Poland, in which in fresh years, on the basis of the decision of the Polish authorities, russian soldiers' monuments were dismantled, established both on graves and outside cemeteries, or the elements of these objects were removed.
Our respects,
Russian Embassy in Poland”
The next day, I mean Wednesday. On 28 May this year I sent a request to Polish MFA to explain the state's care for graves and memorial sites of victims of war and repression, contained in a bilateral agreement of 22 February 1994. The answer came quickly, as it was on Thursday, May 29th:
‘Sir,
We kindly inform you that the care of war cemeteries in the territory of Poland is outside the competence of the Ministry of abroad Affairs.
We propose contact with the applicable voivode and Ministry of Culture and National Heritage.
Sincerely –
Department of Cooperation with Polonia and Poles across the border
Ministry of abroad Affairs’.
I could not refuse to express my surprise, reinforced by any malice. The same day I said,
“Why is the double minister R. Sikorski (now on behalf of the PO, formerly PiS) speaking on the plaques from the cemetery in Mednoje? He was mistaken in his competence, or was he trying to show his “compromise” as part of R. Trzaskowski's presidential campaign?“ How easy it was to figure out the correspondence of the reaction was not.
The substance of the position of the Warmia-Mazury Provincial Office remained to be explained, as if not to look at the host of the Russian necropolis. I started with a conversation held on Wednesday, May 28th. Emilia Oral, representing the Social Department in the abovementioned office. She refused to answer the questions asked and sent them back to Simon Tarasevich, the spokesperson for the Provincial press. He asked for written questions and promised an answer by Friday, May 30th at the latest. So I immediately wrote:
‘Good morning,
In mention to a fresh telephone conversation, I ask for information on the russian Soldier Cemetery in Braniewa (31 1000 buried) with an emphasis on the following issues:
1. The amount of PLN 22,800 granted for this year by W-MUW to the Municipal Office in Braniewo for maintenance, and specifically to monthly mowing of grass in the abovementioned cemetery. According to my interlocutor, this amount is insufficient and supplemented by the own resources of the Administration.
2. At the end of 2021, the Russian Embassy asked W-MUW to give its consent to the renovation of the Brazwski cemetery, allocating almost PLN 7.7 million from its resources. Unfortunately, until today, she received neither your consent nor any reply. The question is, why?
I will be obliged to supply a fast and comprehensive explanation of these issues."
To this day, i.e. by Wednesday, June 11th, I did not anticipate any – even a negative – answer.
And it seemed to me that after last year's death of the grey eminence of Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, a certain Mirona Sicza, Deputy Marshal for the PO, the anti-Russian attitude in this region has weakened somewhat. Just to explain – Miron is simply a bander's spawn of Alexander, who for active activity (read: crimes in Poles) in CNS and UPA was sentenced to death punishment in 1947. In the same year, this punishment was converted to 15 years in prison, which allowed the future activist's bandit to be spawned Ukrainian Union in Poland and an MP to the Sejm of the Republic of Poland never covering up his pro-Banderian sympathies. After the scale of the demolition of the Russian necropolis in Braniewo, Alexander and Miron Sicz inactive have equal successors.
Worse still, they can besides number on President-elect's support Karol Nawrocki, whose attitude to the global agreement on common respect for graves and memorial sites of Polish and Russian victims of war and repression showed unequivocally as the president of the IPN. So unequivocal that he considered it essential to charge the state budget for individual protection costs against the possible revenge of the Russians. This russophobia surely does not weaken Nawrock's service to Ukrainians. I mention to my publication 2 years ago under a meaningful title "Functionals of the Institute do not yet cry before the Banderovists: they have chosen to fill..."
Text and pictures:
Henryk Jezierski
(11.06.2025)
P.S.
The descendants of the alleged repatriates (in a crucial part about Jewish, Ukrainian, Lithuanian or Belarusian roots) may besides consider me a beneficiary – only little ungrateful – of the winning Red Army war with Wehrmacht.
I am so in a hurry to inform you that I am the boy of a veterinarian who in 1953 was ordered to work in Warmia and had to leave the household Lublin. We (parents and my younger brother) were offered 1 area in Braniewo with a kitchen passerby and a shared toilet in a corridor in a ruined palace, fast cut into respective twelve flats-clips.
"Repatrians", mainly judaic (Vilno) and Ukrainian (known from where) had no specified problems. At the first were luxury villas after Gestapoes and extended apartments after Nazi officers of the lower rank, the second were mainly attended by not little than a dozenhectare farms with complete construction and equipment. I was besides young to see and know everything.
From later mother's accounts, a image of a very grim and – worse yet – with a tragic epilogue for our household emerged. After each return from work, the father avenged “farmers” who could not satisfy the simple needs of the cows, pigs or sheep. As a boy of a multigenerational peasant family, he could not calmly look at the state of animals in “repatrian” farms and PGRs. He had a service vehicle at his disposal in the form of a discovered, two-wheeled carriage attached to the horse. He went on veterinary interventions at all times of day and night, no substance the weather, even in the worst snowstorm.
He must have paid for it with his wellness once. besides bad it's so fast. First pneumonia, then complications and fatal treatment at Elbląg Hospital, where it was discharged a fewer weeks before his death. His parent inactive had time to transport him to his hometown. He died and was buried in a parish cemetery in Nadwiślany Piotrwin a fewer months before his 33th birthday. My parent was left alone with me as a three-year-old and a two-year-old brother.
Nevertheless, I do not have peculiar prejudices even with this part of the "repatriates" which can be determined with full conviction by the utmost wild. More, their modern descendants sincerely want a successful return to the land of their ancestors or the conquest of the real western lands, those left of Oder, with Berlin as the capital. Let them proceed to prosecute the goal of all nomads (‘The country where the benefit is’) And they multiply the wealth that their parents took from the Germans. There is only 1 condition – that they should never return to Poland again, especially as "repatriates", to which something is due again or – even worse – as a V column imposing fresh standards on us. specified as the way in which global agreements are implemented, especially in a substance so crucial as common respect for burial sites of victims of war and repression.
H. Jez.
