The russian punch in the back, ending with a joint parade of 2 totalitarianisms on the corpse of Catholic Poland, does not be in Russian or even more so in the world's historical consciousness. This is 1 example of the effectiveness of Russia's historical policy, which besides translates straight into modern decisions.
"He who controls the past controls the future" was to prophetically compose George Orwell. However, there is simply a difference between the historical policy pursued by all serious state and the insolent propaganda calculated as mass misinformation, forming part of the war in an increasingly networked world.
"War never changes," noted the authors of the iconic post-apocalyptic game series Fallout. Its regulation of conquest and enslavement besides includes Noosphere — information modern battlefield for consciousness and minds.
"The novelty in these struggles is that they are not about direct physical submission to another people's bodies, but about specified a degeneration of their thoughts to abandon inherent dignity and freedom, giving up their bodies and consciousness voluntarily to the spoil of the aggressor," explains peculiar Services expert Dr. Rafał Brzeski.
Russia has always been catching up with technological and organisational work on the destabilisation section. Based on the russian legacy – as Prof. Jan Ryszard Selezin says – she has over the years improved subliminal methods of propaganda-political aggression, which are increasingly dangerous for Poland.
Polish concentration camps
Russian historical policy has become increasingly aggressive towards Poland since 2008. It was then that school textbooks began to push the thesis that Stalin was "an effective manager", and that his panic was "a rational instrument for the improvement of the country." On the another hand, Katyn crime was revenge for "the death of russian soldiers in Polish POW camps after 1920".
Russia cannot renounce work for Katyń since Boris Jelcin revealed russian cleansing of Polish intelligence to the full planet in 1990. alternatively of denial, a bold act of symmetry was decided, raising to an unimaginable rank death—apparently hundreds of thousands of red-armists in camps in Tuchów, Puławy, Arrows and Baranovich. The message was simple – we may have murdered Polish officers in Katyn, but you started it by starving our people.
In time, a communicative was added that many murdered in Katyn were allegedly liable for overseeing russian prisoners. Poland, in turn, was to become a precursor of concentration camps on which Germans (sic!) modeled. With this charge, he links our country's accusations of collaboration with Hitler. In 2009 respective studies were published, convincing about the joint plans of Berlin and Warsaw of the partition of Czechoslovakia, Lithuania and armed aggression against the Baltic and USSR countries. Therefore, the Ribbentrop-Molotov pact, which the Kremlin besides cannot silence, began to be portrayed as a defensive alliance, bound... in defence of the power forces of the Republic.
Russians besides accuse Poland of creating planet War II. The origin for its detonation was to be – again – not sealed by the secret protocol of the demolition of Poland, but the rejection of German territorial claims. Similarly, there is no September invasion in Russian optics. Crossing the Polish border, Soviets were not expected to implement common German-Soviet agreements, but "to prevent the business of the eternal Russian lands by Germany". These areas include, among others, Lviv or Vilnius, which never entered the borders of the Russian empire. In turn, the scrolling lytmotiv is convinced that Poles should inactive be grateful to the Red Army for the “liberation” from the German business and the “gift of Stalin” in the form of Silesia and Pomerania.
‘G***ojady’
Prof. Sielenin recalls that thanks to communication technology and the usage of a immense number of intermediate information, Russia can even more effectively form individual awareness, social and opinion-making groups and influence their attitudes and assessments. Russian propaganda interacts with interior usage – strengthening society in a powerful imagination of its own country and justifying assault wars – as well as external ones; convincing abroad actors to their rations.
Unable to overestimate in the information war are, utilizing the KGB and GRU nomenclature, "g***jades". These agents of influence are willing to stand by Russia voluntarily, without coercion or blackmail. Combined with a much more dangerous influence agent, they are an excellent tool conducted frequently over the years of the destabilization process. "The detection of an influence agentry is highly difficult, and proving that it is impossible for a abroad state to act, due to the fact that in a democratic country everyone has the right to express their own views," notes Dr. Brzeski.
An excellent example of the influence of the Kremlin propaganda was Tucker Carlson's interview with Vladimir Putin. The leader of the Russian Federation, to the astonishment of the American journalist, devoted a large deal of space to Poland, with his statements being the most perfect distillate of almost all lies duplicated consistently since 2008. Putin again held Poland liable for the outbreak of planet War II, accused us of demolishing Czechoslovakia, and the entry of the Soviets in 1939 called Russia's return "to its historical territories".
The Russian leader stepped back in his deliberations until the 16th century, accusing the First Republic of the polonization of the Orthodox population, which, according to the imperial concept of the III of Rome, was under the self-proclaimed protectorate of Moscow. Putin even went along with this message that the thought of Ukrainian people was created in Poland, tactically silent about the obsessively anti-Polish character of Ukrainian nationalism. The message to the American, disoriented recipient was simple: Ukraine was "imagined by Poles", and present they consider Kiev to be their sphere of influence.
Listening to these revelations, 1 could be convinced that the thought of Ukra-Polin was invented by the Russians.
But let us not imagine that Russian propaganda does not affect Polish patriotic environments either. It seems that since the outbreak of the war in 2022, the blade of opposition to the Kremel historical policy has shifted towards increasingly prominent examples of neo-Bander propaganda.
For example, this year with large devotion was celebrated another anniversary of Bloody Sunday in Volyn, while it was vain to look for a akin interest in the anniversary of the Polish NKVD operation of 1938, which, like the Volyn crime, constituted cultural cleansing of over 110 1000 Poles.
In April, however, another anniversary of the Katyn crime passed almost without an echo. Therefore, if we avenged the insolent historical propaganda of Kiev, Berlin or Tel Aviv, let us not forget that the trails on this episode have long been crossing the Kremlin.
Peter Relich
