The Warsaw Town Hall for the presidency of Rafał Trzaskowski took patronage over the celebration of the independency Day of Ukraine, planned on 24 August 2026 at Castle Square. The same president of the capital previously blocked the March of Independence: a ban in 2020 and an appeal against cyclical position in 2021. For Poles, the stake is equal to the measurement against their own symbols.
Patronage for Ukrainian holiday
According to Rightry.pl Rafał Trzaskowski, president of Warsaw, took the patronage over the celebration of the independency Day of Ukraine in the capital, and Philip Frąckowiak, Councillor of Warsaw commented. authoritative city announcement says On 24 August at 6.30 p.m., Ukrainian independency Day will begin at Castle Square. The very fact that a nation defends itself against Russia is not a problem. The problem begins where the Polish town hall shows the warmth of a abroad state holiday, and in the face of the largest Polish patriotic march it has been taking a suspicious attitude for years.
The independency March is not just a street party. It is 1 of the largest yearly patriotic gatherings in Poland, increasing out of the request for a public exhortation on 11 November, white-red colours and continuity of the state. You can discuss organization, safety and order. However, hundreds of thousands of people coming with flags must not be brought to an administrative problem that would be best pushed out of the centre of the capital.
March of independency Under the View of City Hall
In 2020, Warsaw City Hall reported that President of Warsaw banned the organization of the independency March in the area of the Dmowski Roundabout and Defilad Square, citing, among another things, the epidemic situation and the convention regulations. A year later, the city appealed against the decision of the Mazovia state to registry March as a cyclical assembly, and The territory Court in Warsaw agreed to the arguments of the city.
These are the facts. And they show that the dispute does not concern 1 poster, 1 performance or 1 patronage decision. It concerns the political hierarchy of symbols. erstwhile Warsaw can organize and imagely support the independency Day of Ukraine, it should be able to treat Polish independency Day and its social manifestation with simple respect.
The National diary has already published a guide showing what it is March of independency in the wider calendar of national holidays. This is an crucial context, due to the fact that without it, it is easy to present the March as a communication nuisance. For many families, the communist, national and patriotic communities, however, it is simply a day of community. This cannot be reasonably closed under ‘risk’.
Solidarity cannot mean complexes
Poland has an interest in not winning the war in Ukraine. It's a safety business, not a sentimental decoration. Warsaw can thus show solidarity to Ukrainians surviving in the capital. But the serious state begins with respect for its own holidays, its own past and its own citizens.
If the celebrations of the independency Day of Ukraine are located in the scenery of the capital, then the independency March should be in it more so. Not as a graciously tolerated exception, but as a natural part of Poland on 11 November. The city hall can set the standards. He's got tools for it. However, he should not build an atmosphere in which Polish patriotism is suspected, and individual else's vacation receives a soft frame and patronage.
There's a wider problem with liberal elites. They are happy to talk about openness erstwhile it comes to gestures towards another nations, but with Polish national pride, the language of control, conditions and warnings rapidly appears. specified pedagogy does not strengthen the community. She teaches Poles that in their own capital they are to ask for approval for normality.
Warsaw should be the Polish capital
On 15 August, on the occasion of the military parade, we wrote that Warsaw is to decide safety and show its own strength. The same regulation applies to symbols. The capital is not a private scene of any organization or laboratory of liberal sensitivity. It is the capital of the Republic.
Therefore, the issue of patronage over the Ukrainian vacation hurts not due to Ukrainians. It hurts due to asymmetry. Poles see that in the face of their own symbols power can be cold, suspicious and legal until exaggeration. With another people’s symbols, it can be soft, hospitable, and promotional. This truly means that Polish pride in Warsaw must inactive penetrate the filter of political correctness.
The city should keep order, but it cannot bring the inhabitants to shame for a white-red street. 11 November belongs to Poles. Warsaw should realize this first.
Source: Right.pl, UM Warsaw, National Journal.
Source: Right.pl
