Wolkień: Propagandic defeat of the 3rd Republic of Poland

A fewer years ago, with a subtle sense of humor, a friend of mine, after another bunchonic and paranoid message of the Polish politician said, “I am starting to think that we truly started planet War II.”

Unfortunately, what we treated as a manifestation of black, but inactive humor, in an interview Tucker Carlson. Putin and I took on a very different dimension and made a dangerous political sense. The Russian president stated not only against the apparent facts that in a brutal way we had Polishized the Ukrainians and since the 13th century (who cares about dates there, this lapsus even caused the surprise of the interviewer with the tremendous class and professionalism of Tucker Carlson), not only that we co-labored with Hitler and together with him in the partition of Czechoslovakia, but that in fact we started planet War II, rejecting Hitler's reasonable proposals enabling a convenient merger between Germany and East Prussia.

The German listeners could hear that it was not the Poles who returned in 1945 to old, hubby lands, and that this did not happen after the Germans murdered respective million Poles and Polish citizens of judaic origin, but that we received German lands as a gift as compensation for the lost colonies in the east, where for centuries we oppressed Ukrainians. However, this was only an introduction to what was a cloud of transmission to German partners. 1 hr later, Putin stated that after the Nord Stream was blown up, fuel could travel to Germany through Jamal, but Poles closed it and the president was hard to realize why Germany agrees to this due to the fact that Poles get money from the EU, and Germany is the biggest contributor in the EU and in a way "feed" Poland. Without getting into historical disputes and correcting, it must be stated that specified an easy-to-recognizable Russian message to the Germans is highly dangerous for Poland, due to the fact that it first presents us as Hitler's allies and even worse, due to the fact that a more militant part of this alliance, and then directs the message to Germany, whose main thought is the request to bring to order this tumultuous creature, which occupies the erstwhile German lands and is liable for the current problems of the German economy.

Of course, for specified a blow the Polish political class, or more specifically all that is given for Polish abroad policy, has earned itself over the last 3 decades. It is adequate to mention the embarrassing and even rude behaviour of journalists and journalists, the plight of paranoid rusophobes, the painful wounding of Russian memory of the dead in planet War II, the humiliating and humiliating of Russian athletes, artists and Russians as such, until after insulting humanity after massacre in Bieslan or execution Daria Dugina. It is all true, as it is true, that as Poles we comparatively humbly bear that specified individuals represent us in the world. And that is why it makes no sense to wrap around the fact that besides as Poles, whether we want it or not, we have been given this interview and a message about us that the planet has been humiliated. The planet is presented to us as a nation, a community in a false and intentionally evil light, and we are so powerless.

However, unlike the senseless, externally controlled irritation and humiliation of Russia which the Polish political class practiced, it is the humiliation and detestation of Poland which Russian has done. The president made political sense. Poland's rusophobia was ignored by serious politicians in the planet as a somewhat embarrassing and chronic condition, but the way and scale of impact Putin made had a completely different caliber. Reactions to this blow are threefold. Rusophobes of all colours swell with pride that these are their efforts have been noticed and have been given fuel to intensify their rhetoric that summarizes in saying, "Look how the enemy has hurt us, how he could, how he could," we must buy more weapons and give it to Ukraine. The question of why they did Poland an enemy from the neighboring power is like in all those suffering from problems of dignity – neurotic neurotics not allowed to become aware.

However, there is simply a second reaction that should not be accepted either. This is an effort to soften the Polish part of Putin's message combined with highly brutal criticism of its own country and its history. From online entries on this side of the public 1 can get the impression that Putin was actually right, Sanitative Poland is Nazi collaborators, and Stalin sometimes breaks human rights, but as Putin said only “in the opinion of some”. specified self-absorbing after propaganda defeat resembles the typical political psyche of Poland throwing itself from utmost to extreme. He wrote a lot about it. Aleksander Bocheńskibut besides close to our hearts Roman Dmowski He fought not only insurgent madness, but besides the overcomparability of Polish conservatives towards powerful neighbours and invaders.

The third, possibly the most morally indignant, or politically disastrous, reaction to these 2 types of reaction. This is the answer of the Polish Ministry of abroad Affairs, not only that the murky, classless, but much worse, mixing the Polish historical policy with the historical policy of Ukraine, and so a country which based its identity on the false and glorification of Polish genocide killers, because, as the Polish crofiles claim, it is so unlucky in the past of Ukraine that another Ukrainians do not have any another patterns. It is simply a large step on the way to reconcile with the Ukrainian narrative, according to which mass genocide and beating Polish children to the fork, is just a confusing dispute between neighbors which in past many. It's weird how Radosław Sikorski He has not yet corrected Putin's words, which, which should besides be mentioned, reminded Ukrainian crimes in Poles respective times. Happiness in misery is the fact that the sweats of the Warsaw MFA will read thousands, which besides reflects its possibilities well compared to Putin's hundreds of million audience.

There cannot be our consent to rusophobia and to the insane, conflicting policy of the native political class with the Polish interest, but there cannot be consent to demeaning Poland as specified and falsifying our image, not only due to the fact that it hurts us. Even if individual believes that Warsaw's problems are not his business, he should remember that it is politically harmful for all of us whether we like it or not. Of course, the reflection here is that this propaganda war, which on Polish and not only the section of the front just ended with a Russian blitzkrieg, can be considered a foretaste of what would have happened if the Polish political class had succeeded in creating a real war. What would happen if the military caliber of our media generals collided with the Russian war device outside the tv or the Internet.

Many commentators expressed the opinion that years of pointless annoyance, insulting, damaging Russia at the expense of their own Polish interests do not impress Moscow and that they are either unnoticed or ignored there. They weren't, due to the fact that as he erstwhile said Georges Clemenceau erstwhile asked about France's ability to recover Alsace and Lorraine: "We never talk about it, we always think about it," that means that mature politics can wait for their time and opportunity. Putin interviewed Tucker Carlson in this area with a ruthless lesson irresponsible, but besides amazingly inept to politicians from over the Vistula River. This time the Polish defeat was only propaganda, but for a country like Poland, how we are perceived in the planet has meaning and has political consequences. Therefore, while it is inactive time to intensify efforts to make the Polish public think and the current political class sent him far away, preferably to any contemporary counterpart Zaleszczyk, before the order of our place begins to be jointly done by Germany, Russia and glorifying Bandera Ukraine.

Olaf Swolkień

photo of cremlin.ru

Think Poland, No. 9-10 (25.02-3.03.2024)