The soldiers are talking about the secret director. “It was essential to worship her almost divinely”

PiS politician, associate of the National Defence Commission: Even after his resignation, Antoni Macierewicz did not intend to surrender. He fought a silent driveway war with Błaszczak for any time. First of all, as head of the Smolensk commission, he occupied the palace on Klonowa Street, the head office of the Minister of Defence, and began to occupy him. Therefore, Błaszczak, wishing not to, went up to a much little typical MON building on independency Avenue, called "Pekin".

They besides made a mark that Błaszczak moved to independency Avenue for the centenary of regaining independency by Poland. That was evidently a lie. He was just afraid of Anthony, so he left the palace, but gradually got free of Macerewicz's men from the hotel and introduced his crew. He besides ordered a akin cleaning in the arms manufacture to make area for his own. Błaszczak's people began to distribute so seriously only after president Kaczyński himself gave the green light to finish Anthony. It was then that Misiewicz was arrested for many months, accused of financial scams, and Macerewicz with his Smolensk commission – from the palace at Klonowa Street to Kolska Street.

“When Mrs. Glapiak came to the units, she had to be worshipped almost divinely.”

MON officer: I have the impression that Błaszczak was from the beginning any kind of a piyre creation, and that the chief of the Operations Centre of the Minister of National Defence Agnieszka Glapiak grew up the most crucial individual in his surroundings.

Ground Army Officer: Macierewicz had his Misiewicz and Błaszczak had his Glapiak. Misiewicz, however, grew up in arrogance, shoe and ruthlessness. erstwhile Mrs. Glapiak came to the units, she should have been worshiped. People warned each another about her. They said if he called, you'd gotta do the occupation due to the fact that you'd be dead. She was the 1 who put the commanders in charge.

Petty Officer with quite a few experience: If we give honors to the superior, that's the army, if we pay honors to Misiewicz or Mrs. Glapiak, then I don't know if it's an army anymore.

Press Officer: Glapiak was personally liable for creating the image of the minister. It led to the fact that the army was just a background, a frame for Błaszczak. I remember many visits by the minister to the unit. The most crucial thing was always to set the equipment so that the Błaszczak would look good on its background. We set it up to be safe, then people came from the Operations Centre of the Minister of Defence and turned everything upside down. Can you imagine that the majors and lieutenant colonels of the MON were setting up generals, unit commanders? chief Glapiak was attracted to all the strings. She was a panic of the army. If the manager called the general and told her to do so and so, then all general did as she wished.

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Falcon, 27.05.2022. manager of the MON Operations Centre Agnieszka Glapiak

Official of the President's Chancellery: The president and Minister Błaszczak very frequently participated in various events together: exercises, presentations, conferences, at parades. All of this had to be prepared in all item prior to the ceremony. It is known that the head of state, the superior of the armed forces, must have a good frame, due to the fact that all public failure ends in disgrace for him. Our people have been doing this for years. Meanwhile, officials from the Operations Centre of the Minister of National Defence would drop in before the ceremony and turn everything upside down.

Once they wanted to put the president back into the army so that the Błaszczak would look better. God damn it. Another time, it was during the parade on the occasion of the Polish Army, 1 of the officials first started yelling at us, that we were doing everything wrong. She's already truly raised the force erstwhile she said we had besides much time planned for the president's speech. The MP from the MON gave herself the right to decide how long the president of our country is to speak. Amazing shoe, confidence, deficiency of culture of these people – it was incredible.

Officer, unit press secretary: They were rude, so foreign. I couldn't talk to them. They drove into the units, said they wanted it to be like this and yes and there was no discussion. They treated soldiers like robots. We were expected to follow every, even the dumbest, and not speak. That's what it looked like all time they showed up. They told them to decision dense equipment – tanks, transporters – so that Błaszczak would take good pictures of them.

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“The Soustors were shocked”

Commander of an crucial military institution: Unfortunately, I was dealing with CO MON people. Well, to be honest, he's a part of shit. Really. It didn't substance the training, it didn't substance what they were doing, it was just crucial to take a image to show the minister to say that the minister would be somewhere. It was only the media transmission that the ministry was active in.

Naval Officer: possibly it was our misfortune, or possibly in those days our happiness – we were simply forgotten in Warsaw. Macierewicz and Błaszczak two, possibly 3 times in Gdynia. They didn't talk to the sailors. I don't think they even knew the names of our commanders. We were just a wall for them erstwhile we launched any kind of ship. The most crucial thing was to set up the minister properly. The people of the MON moved everything, including the ships, due to the fact that the sun didn't rain like that, and the minister's photograph won't come out.

Do you know what it means to decision a warship? It's not any small boat, it's quite a few tons of iron. We explained that it was impossible to decision a warship from hand to hand, but it did not scope them. I want it to be what we want it to be, and there's no discussion. And you had to decision that ship.

Press Officer: The environment of Błaszczak was a squad of rude people with no respect for the uniform, no respect for the military. They treated the military like fools to take conferences and photos. If anyone expressed any doubts, they'd fuck the officers alive. Each global exercise was besides performed exclusively under the minister and his visit to the camp. For example, on Defender-Europe 20. At that time, the Minister of Defence sent a man, whose sole task was to run the social media of Minister Błaszczak, to the Drawski Operations Centre. He's expected to make certain the training information goes through the minister's Twitter. It's never looked like this before.

Edyta Gory: What do allies say?

Press Officer: They were shocked, especially the British. They released all information about each another after training only erstwhile they returned to the country. The case had to be thought out and accepted by all command. They couldn't realize why we're working with the guerrillas and don't think about the consequences. But in Britain, the military is separated from politics by a large line.

Ground Army Officer: It wasn't for Macerewicz. specified rudeness. They did different circuses, especially Misiewicz, that should be admitted, but in fact they were specified ruby scenes. Cabaret. For Błaszczak there was nothing but rudeness and Bolshevik murderism. At first, any of the commanders resisted this Bolshevikism, but as soldiers saw that one, the other, the 3rd had been demoted from the positions, it was all the faces of the legs. Błaszczak's men to the officers said, "If you don't do the job, individual else will do it, and you won't be here anymore." Everybody calmed down.

Materewicza people now mention well, of course those who have not suffered. It's about just treating people. Macierewicz would come to the units and usually talk to soldiers. His crew were mostly kind and polite. But erstwhile Błaszczak and his entourage came, they treated us like cattle. There was no simple culture there, no respect for man, no specified basic rules of kidder art.

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Voivodine, 12.11.2023. Minister of National Defence Mariusz Błaszczak during a gathering with soldiers serving in the recently established Motorised Brigade of the 1st Legion Infantry Division in Wojewódź

“I personally participated in specified a bill. Nothing there was true”

Officer from 16. Division from Giżycka: When Błaszczak or individual from the ministry or politicians, specified as Mrs. Małgorzata Kopiczko, Senator from Ełk – she was frequently invited to visit the Polish-Belarusian border, it was always our command that organized the celebration in accordance with the principles of pledge and stand up. They were having large parties. But first there was a image for the masses. The cameras showed the minister how he was having dinner in the shelter with us from plastic plates. respective soldiers were behind the scenes at the time. They ate the same as the minister, they smiled, and journalists said it was good. The remainder of the soldiers ate in their tents. Their food was different, worse.

And then there was a organization of the minister and politicians, where there were no more journalists and regular soldiers. It was all that the Mazury land gave the best. Eels, smoked fish, venison. The chaotic and deer were hunted by a corporal, a colleague of our battalion commander. As they already knew that Błaszczak or Morawiecki would appear at the border, he was going to the forest. On the 1 hand, Błaszczak said, “We are with soldiers”, “the wall behind the Polish uniform”, but he did not say that we eat better food from the porcelainware. The china was taken from Białystok, but it was besides the case that our commanders brought theirs from Giżyck or Węgorzew.

Private senior: As Błaszczak with an entourage came to the organization on the border, even peculiar Vipów toie were imported to the camp. They told the man on work to keep the keys so that no 1 on the outside would enter them. If there's 1 who agreed to keep those keys, he was by the toilets. But there were soldiers who could stand up for themselves. They said they wouldn't be making certain they weren't in the army for that, not for that. I witnessed a certain Ensign stand up to me. Chaplain – he is no longer with us, all right, boy – said to him: “You have balls, man”, due to the fact that you had to have balls to stand up to specified people.

Officer from 16. Division from Giżycka: I was appointed by my commander to service journalists, as tv Poland came to us – usually only tv Poland was invited – who wanted to do a program for MON. They figured they'd show us how to aid the families of soldiers who are on the border. It was expected to be a program about the military helping mothers who are left alone with their children.

I personally participated in specified a bill. The commander has appointed me and a colleague for this program. A friend, although a soldier, had to dress up in civilian clothes and pretend her husband was serving on the border. He was in training at the time at the camp, but for the intent of television, they connected to him by telephone and pretended he was on the border. Then I pretended to be a friend from his unit who just walked in and brought her groceries. The show's on TV. We had any fun with that. It was a full setup. Nothing there was true. There were quite a few specified rude setups at the time. The point was to show how the defence Department cares about its soldiers. It was terrible, but we got the order, and it had to be done.

"Mariusz Błaszczak in the Army had a nickname called Ken"

Ground Army Officer: The imagery was the most crucial and what the public sees in the media. That was the most crucial thing. It didn't substance what training was, it didn't substance that there was no money for equipment, for uniforms, for vests, for infrastructure, for the day-to-day operation of the unit. The most crucial were those celebrated picnics, supposedly military, and in fact political ones, on which the soldiers were an attraction like the bears on Krupówki.

Brigadier Commander: I was approached by my soldier, an experienced Petty Officer, respective decades of service, combat missions in Iraq and Afghanistan, abroad courses and training and declared he was leaving. Reason? Bets on harvests and PiS promotion events. He said he had adequate fun with soldiers and that he wasn't trained adequate to do it for the harvest. He wasn't the only 1 who left the army. These picnics have cost us quite a few experienced soldiers.

Soldiers have been sent for respective years to safe anti-government demonstrations, participate in organization events or make backgrounds for politicians present at conferences. But the stubbornness of the apogee army reached in 2023. We had nothing to say. The manager came to us from the Ministry of Defence's Operations Center and ordered the full training program to fit into their picnics and fairs. We felt like puppets.

Nobody explained to us why we should go to the Second Bunny, for example, and stand next to the inflatable slide for children all Sunday, due to the fact that the Volunteer Fire Department there wished for military attractions. Of course, there were local PiS politicians there. People were so tired of it. From drivers to pressmen, everyone served these picnics. There were specified absurdities that elder officers were in charge of setting up equipment due to the fact that there was no 1 else to do it.

Staff officer: To the Ministry of National Defence, Staff, Recruitment and Command Centres there began to flow avalanches of applications from local activists and PiS politicians asking to send soldiers and equipment to various ceremonies in villages, towns and cities across Poland. The argument was curiosistic. Applicants wrote that the picnic was aimed at "integrating residents and household ties through shared fun".

They assured that the program "will not deficiency inspiring creative meetings, playgrounds for children, concerts and many another attractions". These “other attractions” were to be us soldiers. The army, alternatively of training, prepared for war, rode picnics, indulgences, and fairs. Soldiers present don't know the odor of gunpowder or groundbreaking due to the fact that they were the item of organization parties.

In the General Staff, there was a dismay following the receipt of another specified request. The military as part of the harvest and picnic of the agrarian housekeepers' wheels is not included in any plans and tasks. At first, we didn't know what to do with this fan, due to the fact that formally it couldn't be classified, but the force from above was huge. So we had the thought to send all these applications to the chief of the military recruitment center. That's where they've been bugging them all. The old military adage says that the military cannot only turn the helmet to the left. There's a pretext to send soldiers to picnics, too. It resulted, as indicated in the writings, “for crucial social reasons”.

At the military recruitment centers, the chiefs were already WOT officers, servants or even servants to the party. Therefore, they practically always wrote, “Consent”. From there, the conclusions flowed to the commanders of military units in the area who were forced to put up the equipment and send troops for the event. As there was no specified equipment in the unit that the mayor or MP wanted, sometimes the wolverines or leopards had to be carried through half of Poland.

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Skowronki, 18.04.2023. president of the Republic of Poland Andrzej Duda (L) and Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of National Defence Mariusz Błaszczak (P) during a press conference, after exercises under the code name of Zalew-23 in the Port of the Sea Nowy Świat on the Vistula measurement

General Command Officer: The bliss could not win the sympathy of the army. He was stiff as a stake. That's why he had the name Ken in the army, only Barbie was missing. The artificiality of speech, the deficiency of naturality, it had a negative effect on him. People felt it. And then he just didn't perceive to us anymore. Whatever we say, I'm talking about the military, not the MON departments, due to the fact that there were his earrings, it was always bad. The minister has always been for them.

You know, he didn't like soldiers, especially officers. It was obvious. He suffered erstwhile he had to hang out with officers. He couldn't talk to us about bullshit. He was afraid there'd be quite a few problems. Even erstwhile the lieutenant went out to see him, he'd throw him off, let alone the general? He'd alternatively talk to a private. specified a soldier did not ask hard questions, yet he was grateful that the minister gave him 7 100 gold increases. That money came in the defence of the homeland bill. They were only recorded so that the minister and the PiS organization could buy the favour of this, or the most numerous, in the group's army. They didn't truly think what harm they were doing to that army.

Imagine, we have a sergeant in the army. An old soldier, a veteran after missions, courses done, studies, you can't number the exercises. He will gain 5 1000 zlotys and a candidate for a professional soldier – not even a soldier, but a candidate – in the first year of service he will receive six 1000 per hand and will pay no taxation or wellness contribution. What kind of motivation does that sergeant gotta serve, how does a private make more money from him? None.

Edyta Gory: Then you had to intervene before the bill passed the Sejm.

General Command Officer: How, if the military were not active in the bill? We talked about it to the Bliss, raised the alarm. But for them the officers were like fish – they had no voice. The military were only on the first squad to work on a fresh bill. The minister's men threw ideas, and we pointed out that records specified as the 1 with the besides large rise for the privates would have bad effects on the military. What did Blissak do? Smack, smudge, and completely removed the military from the commission. It wasn't until the bill went to the Sejm that we got it.

Edyta Gory: So the most crucial bill for the military wasn't worked by the military?

General Command Officer: Nope. There was a press conference in Novotel once. The chief of staff represented 1 of the generals there. At 1 point, 1 writer asked, “General, what is your opinion on the fresh law?” And he said he didn't know due to the fact that the General Staff didn't take part in it. “How did it not participate?” – the grandma made large eyes, but it was the end of the recording. No further questions were allowed to be asked. The media didn't make a large deal then.

I don't think the journalists got the hang of it, but if the milk spilled, I warrant you the general would pay for his honesty with his head. After all, the bill was not only owned by Błaszczak, but besides by president Kaczyński. If the power had done so with respect to doctors, miners or teachers, then there would have been specified a sound that an early election would should be prepared. Unfortunately, the military kept quiet. Shut up, I'm sewing. Although it was the most crucial bill for us.

General, present in reserve: The lurker groveled at the president. He knew that Kaczyński had entered the government as Deputy Prime Minister on a mission and would rapidly leave. The Homeland defence Act was written by his MON men who locked themselves in any military hotel for a fewer weeks to compose it. This was to be a gift from Błaszczak to Kaczyński in the form of a white-red bill. The president may have been happy, but at the conference where Błaszczak presented her, he fell asleep in front of the cameras.

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