The European Council decided on 6 March to proceed financial and military support for Ukraine, defining this in the Orwellian language, that there are "certain basic principles that should lead us on the way to lasting peace." Thus, as in Radio Erevan: “There will be no war. There will be specified a fight for peace that the stone will not stay on the stone." What about people? What about the decision-making process whereby a man takes a weapon into his hand and, figuratively speaking, shoots another man to kill him? Whether a good reward is adequate or a request to teachHate?
In 1849 a Polish soldier and political emigrant, Gen. Joseph Bem, decided to reject Christian religion and to convert to Islam. Is the argument that this was the only way he could fight the Turkish Sultan's army against Tsar's Russia to explain everything? What about a fugitive from Stalin's Poland, trained by American peculiar services Rafał Gan-Ganowicz? As a mercenary in the 1960s, he fought in Africa with the insurgents there, who meant to be liberated from the curate of Western colonial states. At that time, the russian Union supported the automobiles. Was it just anti-communism for Ganovich to be a “gun for hire”?
In both cases, we can presume akin intellectual motivations in these soldiers for hire. any might even appeal to Polish romanticist traditions here, to this fight “for ours and your freedom”. So after the November Uprising, as well as after the post-podamist division of Europe, Poland ceased to be an independent state and in both cases our main political curator became a state with the capital in Moscow... But how to explain today's Polish mercenaries fighting in the Ukrainian Army against the Russians within the alleged Polish Volunteer Corps or in the alleged global Legion of Territorial Defence of Ukraine? This is not easy due to the fact that we are dealing with a crime against Polish law, which, under the punishment of imprisonment of up to 5 years, prohibits “the performance of service in a abroad army or a abroad military organisation”. This cannot even be circumvented by the approval of the state authorities (such ideas have emerged here), due to the fact that in general "international law prohibits military employment service". There is another side to this issue, i.e. Polish citizens fighting under red-black flags referring to the formation of the planet War II UPA and alongside soldiers who, in their essence, profess anti-Polish flag ideology (such as those from the Battalion “Azow”). And here it is not possible to mention to as though there were no noble traditions from the times of the partitions and the times of our first legions created in the outer world.
Poland's political emigration (also economic) was a fact, but it is impossible to rhyme it with modern travel for better money. This is nothing but a bad policy of the Polish State after 1990, which drove people out of an independent country due to the fact that it gave them no chance to make money here... There is no "good fortune" that would heal the wounds of broken marriages, the moral degradation of gastarbeiters, the failure of children raised in a culture of alien origin... Modern emigration causes irreversible cultural changes, and accompanying interests of the alleged West, indoctrination does not care about the Polish national interest and consequently the Polish demographic interest. There is no amount to compensate for the failure of life or the wellness of individual who rents his war and who does so under the influence of this propaganda. In the last 3 years, anti-Russian amok someway connected strangely with the promotion of Europeanism defined already unambiguously in the context of what is Polish.
Angelika Kuza and Marcin Antosiak have been surviving and working in England for years (one of them seems to be from Łowicz). They seem to be surviving in an informal relationship. I met them “at a distance”, watching the coverage of the Polish Press Agency from the ceremony ceremonies of their nineteen-year-old son, Filip Antosiak. Philip finished at Cambridge Morley Memorial School, and later went to Cambridge Academy for discipline and Technology, where he made his M.A., after which he was to go to British military school, but – without telling his parents – enlisted in the 25th Sicheslavian Independent Air Force Brigade of Ukraine. He was part of the "Rubak" impact complex sub-unit and was active in the equipment of dense attacking drones and providing ammunition for the front line. He died on January 19, close Pokrowska in the Donetsk Oblast. He was said goodbye in the Mikhailovski Council in Kiev. Then the coffin was set with military honors on the infamous Maidan of Independence. It was covered by flags of Poland and Ukraine and a wreath of white and red roses. The ceremony was attended by representatives of the Polish Consulate (Paul Owad and Anna Maria Babiak-Owad) and Polish Ukrainian organizations (?) An anthems of 2 countries were played, and parents were given the Certificate of Merit and Courage signed by the Chief Commander of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, General Alexander of Syria...
The Ukrainian media hailed Philip as a “hero of Poland” and Polish-language apologists of war wrote about a hero who “give his life for the freedom of Ukraine and the full democratic world” and “a man of large heart, ready to aid others delicate to human tragedy”... In Kiev, however, Philip's parents were “hotly” put a journalistic “net” under their mouths and camera lenses in front of their eyes.
Father:
He was very arrogant of helping people here in this country. He talked about it all time he called us. In the first letter he wrote to us erstwhile he left for Ukraine, he apologized for fooling us for the first time in his life, but that was his plan.
Mother:
He told us that if we didn't want to contact him due to the fact that we wouldn't be able to accept his decision, then he was able to break up contact because... this is his life... He loves his friends; he loves the captain; he loves his comrades and he is here for them.
Father:
He'll always stay with us. We'll talk to him all day. Actually, we're talking present too...
Mother:
...although he's not here...
The Ministry of National Defence claims that it has no data to find the number of Poles who became mercenaries in Ukraine. In 2022, only 16 consent applications were submitted. All the more reason why the number of people killed is unknown, although sometimes local information about funerals or any mentioned passuses appears. This does not apply to respective Poles; these are hundreds or possibly thousands of lives. What did they believe? What will bring home those who return?
Tomasz A. Żak
