When Polish Right Hates Ukrainians to the End

Events at the National Stadium can be described in terms of average smoke, typical of specified events. The Saturday performance of Belarusian rapper Max Korzh led to fights at the stadium before it even started. Besides, already the erstwhile day in Warsaw Wola, his fans disturbed the night peace of the inhabitants.

At the same time, this performance is most likely the first specified spectacular revelation of young people from the East in Poland. Rapera portrays himself as an opponent of the government Lukashenkos. The fact that he sings Russian is typical of his people. But the next country he's in is expected to be... Russia, that might surprise you.

Who were the people on National? It could have been both Belarusians and Ukrainians, possibly even Russians. They already have in Warsaw their own restaurants where it's hard to separate between 1 and the another due to the fact that everyone speaks Russian. Until now, they have not stabbed Poles in the eyes with their presence. Now they are perceived as excess perpetrators, which fuels resentment.

Dima with the flag hurt

Aversion focuses on the Ukrainians. Most of all due to the OUN-UPA flag incident, which included the perpetrators of the murders in the Poles in Volyn. individual spread it and waved it. Initially, those who were defending Ukrainians were imagining themselves as Russian provocation. possibly not the only one, just as on order of Russia the monument of the Volyn massacre in Domastawa was devastated.

Eyewitnesses reported that tattooed young men at the stadium centered around this flag resembled titties, or militants attacking patriots on the streets of Ukrainian cities commissioned by Russia.

But they identified the 1 who was flying the flag. It was Ukrainian, explaining to the camera that he was guided by patriotic motives, and he knew nothing about Volyn massacre. Right, right? Anything is possible here. In any case, not many people harmed the Ukrainian issue in Poles like this mythical Dima.

Ukrainian talks about hey

The last polls a fewer months ago revealed almost 40% of Poles (according to another survey – 35%), who declare aversion to Ukrainians. This is 10 percent points more than in 2024 and 21 percent points more than in 2023. Spontaneous sympathy, besides for refugees, as if it had evaporated. As the main reason for the tension, the respondents indicate historical issues, that is, the unresolved subject of Volyn.

There are complaints of individual people of Ukrainian nationality that they are subject to aggression. The coverage of the Ukrainian Zoriana Vareni became popular online. It starts with this: “For the first time in the last 3 years I was attacked under a Warsaw palm tree in fresh World. Right in Kiev It was a rough night, and I talked to my mom on the phone, making certain everything was okay. I spoke Ukrainian. Then an old woman grabbed my hand and said I was Russian k...’.

These stories are quoted by Zorian – and it was individual who taught her on the bus that “in Poland we talk Polish”. And it was individual else who called her "bander."

Does this communicative reflect the attitude of Poles to Ukrainians? There's quite a few them, I buy from the Ukrainians on my estate, I cut myself with them. erstwhile I was in the infirmary recently, the orderlys or paramedics were almost without exception. I have not observed akin situations. But erstwhile I read the reactions to Zorian's text online, denial is mixed with hostility.

Bad emotions are shown not only by people who have reacted badly to Ukrainians, frequently voters since the beginning of the war Confederationsbut more and more frequently those who Ukraine After the war, they cheered.

Certainly the echoes of the dispute over the memory of Volyn along with the arrogant attitude of Kiev have their meaning here, as do the impression of not peculiarly upright attitude towards Poland Volodymyr Zelenski. This especially irritates people with right-wing views, due to the fact that for the addition of Zelenski he chose Tuska above Kaczyński.

But there is besides fatigue with the presence of people who do not talk Polish, and there are many. surely any function is played by the general fear of the flooding of Poland by immigrants – that is why liberals blame the right. Only recently, people with conservative views have distinguished visitors from countries Africa and Asia from ‘the Ukrainian brothers’. Ba, right-wing president of the NBP Adam Glapiński explained to voters PiS, rightly, the economical benefits of ageing Poland from the presence of over a million visitors.

Today, those who remind us that they “warned from the beginning” triumph. Luke Warzecha had already announced that from the beginning of the war he had sounded an alarm: the very presence of so many foreigners was to make conflicts. but the editor does not answer what the Polish state was expected to do. Don't let these people into Poland? Select? I besides remember Warzecha's efforts to invent any incidents, in schools or in wellness care, which would prove that Poles are affected by this mass migration. Not really.

A separate subject is to point out young Ukrainians who, alternatively of fighting, are crashing in Poland. I have a problem with that myself. My tongue itches to ask a friend waiter at a favourite restaurant why he serves me alternatively of fighting. Due to the fights at the stadium, this speech became fashionable among right-wing Poles.

Janusz Korwin-Mikke proposed that the audience take the performance to Ukraine. Let them fight.

It should be recalled that the collection in Ukraine concerns people over the age of 25, so even the legal basis for specified action I would not see. But even more irritating is the feeling of superiority, not toward individuals, but towards the full nation, which has fought bravely for over 3 years.

Right hand test

It is worrying that the Confederacy of the anti-Ukrainian speech is starting to take over more and more part of the PiS, a organization that took on and aid Ukraine and refugees at the beginning of the war. The most aggressive consequence to the stadium brawls Dariusz Matecki.

Jarosław Kaczyński He can defy it sometimes. By the way of the anniversary Warsaw Uprising He enraged the right-wingers, saying that it was not Ukrainians, and the Russians collaborating with the Germans murdered the population of the capital in 1944. There was a historical simplification, but there was quite a few right.

The voters, however, remember the annoying speech of the presidential candidate Karol Nawrockiwho wanted to decision Ukrainian patients at the end of the queues to doctors.

The PiS voters begin to repeat after the Confederacy, but besides after their President. This, on the another hand, I consider it dangerous, not only due to the birth of pogroms, which can destruct peace in our country. I am not in favour of calming down anxiety due to excessive immigration. all nation has a right to specified anxiety. But the Ukrainians have been with us for a long time, thanks to our hospitality. Shall we turn her into hostility now? due to the fact that individual pulled out and waved a flag, even if it were hostile to us?

And there's an extra context. Hostility towards Ukrainians must pull the readiness to retreat its support for a country stopping Russia's aggression – in our interest. After all, in 2 years the right hand can regulation Poland.

We already have a test. If, in Alaska, president Trump puts Ukraine in business Vladimir PutinHow will our right hand with Nawrock at the head? I mean, she's into Trump Like a holy picture. We may have an crucial test ahead of us. Perhaps, due to course what Trump will do – foretell impossible.

Peter Zaremba