Despite reinforced police forces, neo-Bander activists, with the support of any Polish citizens, managed to prevent the Russian ambassador and Poles from folding flowers at the Mausoleum of russian Soldiers in Warsaw.
On 9 May 2023, in the morning, a group of Ukrainian activists from Euromaidan-Warsaw, before entering the Mausoleum Cemetery of russian Soldiers in Warsaw, laid out an installation consisting of imitations of wartime demolition and graves of fallen Ukrainian soldiers. tiny blue-yellow flags and crosses were inserted into the ground to block access to the cemetery. The organizers proudly stressed that their goal was to have a man who wanted to get to the monument gotta trample on Ukrainian flags.
Blocking a Diplomat
This time, however, the support of Polish citizens was somewhat different than last year. The organizers gave up the banner symbolism and songs of Ukrainian chauvinists, focusing on politically unattached Ukrainian artifacts.
Upon arrival, about 11 a.m., the Ambassador of the Russian Federation, Sergei Andreyev, respective anonymous activists dressed in Ukrainian symbols began blocking the road to the cemetery. 1 of them virtually attached to the wreath, which a delegation of the Russian embassy planned to lay under the monument. Despite comparatively many police forces, officers did not respond to violations of the rights under the Vienna Convention and allowed further provocations. Ambassador Andreyev attempted to take steps towards the cemetery, which seemingly tempted mainstream media journalists to capture better views and yet they trampled blue-yellow flags, prepared for Russian diplomats. Having noted the indifference of the order forces, the embassy delegation decided to quit further attempts to lay flowers and drove distant from the cemetery.
Screaming at the cemetery
At the time, the participants of the assembly, besides at the indifference of the police, moved to the cemetery area where they attempted to attack Poles walking with flowers. Together with journalists, they virtually climbed a monument protected by Polish law, insulting the memorial site. Individual Poles tried to ask the police present in large numbers for aid and the liquidation of the illegal assembly (Euromaidan-Warsaw was not allowed to show in the cemetery, Polish law forbids it), but the police seemingly had orders to ignore specified gross violations of the law. They reacted only in cases where the banders and their Polish-speaking collaborators threatened individual with a direct physical assault, not by making detentions, but alternatively by pushing the assembled from each other.
After respective decades of obstruction, caused by approval to break the law by neo-Bander activists and Polish citizens of various prowess (in the crowd there were faces associated with both the Committee for Defence of Democracy, Polish citizens and right-wing conservative formations), any Poles, not wanting to let the graves of fallen soldiers to be insulted, laid flowers to single russian soldiers, along an alley leading to the monument.
Tomasz Jankowski
