Piłsudski, Jaruzelski and the Constitution of 3 May.

Andrzej Szlezak May 30, 2026Conservatism.pl/szlezak-pilsudski-Jaruzelski-i-constitution-3-May

I read and reflect on the 100th anniversary of the 1926 May bombing. A week ago, another anniversary of the Constitution passed on May 3rd. This. de facto There was besides a coup. The introduction of martial law on December 13, 1981 was besides a coup d'état. I will come back to the conclusion of these facts soon, and now a fewer comments on this whether a coup would be needed in Poland today. I wrote a fewer years ago about this problem, but I request to get back to it.

I will begin with the apparent – at least for me – message that Poland as a state organization is rotting. The rot processes are carried out by almost all the most crucial institutions and systems deciding on the functioning of the state. To change anything for the better, to save anything from falling apart, it takes quick, determined and far-reaching changes. These changes should be considered, that is, their implementation should be accompanied by a imagination of a plague-free state that is presently destroying them. I will not hide that I see no alternate to a essential and extremist recovery of the state than a coup. The coup d'état of its essence, these are rapid, decisive and far-reaching changes. Unfortunately, the current form of the political and legal strategy of Poland excludes the anticipation of these essential changes.

No political or social force is able to gain specified an advantage that, through changes in accordance with the current legal strategy – headed by the constitution – Poland regains its ability to decide for itself in its national interest. I will return to the point of a coup d'état in the current state form. Now I want to talk about the fresh coups.

On purpose, I mentioned the imagination of the deliberate changes as the mark of the coup at the end, due to the fact that in all the above mentioned attacks it was the worst. The Constitution of May 3, 1791 seemed specified a thoughtful change, but it was not. It proved to be a collection of postulates in those impossible realities, even paradoxically accelerating the demolition of the First Republic.

The May coup had fundamentally 1 idea, or all power in the hands of Józef Piłsudski. There was no imagination of a modern state prepared to face any of the increasing neighbours, and specified a confrontation was becoming increasingly imminent.

In turn, the introduction of martial law was besides deprived of any imagination of repairing falling PRL. All these assassinations ended in disaster. The Constitution of May 3 ended in dissection.

The May bombing ended with the crash of September 1939, and the martial law ended with the fall of the Polish People's Republic, which paradoxically proved to be a mostly blessed result. Thus, as you can see, the coups in our past did not produce anything good for Poland in the sense of thoughtful changes. In this context it is paradoxically besides about the III Polish Republic, as a consequence of the fall of the Polish People's Republic, it is hard to say that it is the consequence of thoughtful changes.

I am now returning to my comments on the point of the coup now. I have written that the current legal strategy and the form of political life exclude fast and far-reaching changes. I am convinced that if this does not change, Poland will rot from within and be trampled from outside. I don't know what kind of political situation this is gonna end. I will mention here to the painting by Peter Breugel "The Fall of Ikar", which I respect as a metaphor of what will happen to Poland. In the image of the Flemish master the large event of Ikar's flight ends with a disaster of falling into the sea, but the full planet around it does not announcement at all and no of the characters in the image interrupt their regular activities.

In another words, Poland will become a crushed beer can. It is besides called a can – Poland, but completely distorted and devoid of content.

On the left side of the image you can see rocks that give a painted phase of depth and emphasize the impression of space. It is only at the end that 1 notices the legs of a drowning man sticking out of the water – it waves them, which stirs the water, and respective more feathers fall around.

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And worst of all, there's no force that can carry out specified an assassination and defend us from the destiny of Ikar from Breugel's painting and becoming a crushed beer can. This is very depressing to me, and I would like those who read my comments to be aware of this situation. That would reduce my sense of infirmity a small bit. It's crucial to me in the context of my writing.

Andrzej Szlezak