It is sad that I have to criticise a Government that I helped vote into power again but these idiots are well just idiots more concerned with the past than the future. They have done 'stoopid' before - storming the offices of a NATO affiliated Organisation to revoke someones security pass - but now they are getting worrying.
So this PiS government is becoming in Polish terms increasingly Dmowski-an rather than Jagiellonian as they promised - some of them in person to me. I will not bore you with the history but Dmowski was basically a nationalist - at times an ancestor worshiper type nationalist who thought Poles were a 'narod', 'volk' or 'race' in English - a result perhaps of the Sarmatian theory that the Polish aristocracy are descended from old Iran. Fortunately he was in his time opposed by Piłsudski who saved Poland and perhaps all Europe from the Red Army in 1920. Piłsudski was a Polish Lithuanian and remembered the Commonwealth and the freedoms it allowed - I think religious freedom was granted in the 1500s from memory. But the Commonwealth evidently had to freedom of religion as it was comprised of what is today parts of Poland, all the Baltics, Belarus and most of Ukraine. Fine worship as you please - it is normal now. Should be anyway. No country is a 'pure race' - do the genetic studies - and trying to make it so would be impossible, pointless and most likely detrimental to the 'race' in gene pool diversity terms.
Now however if I proclaim that some Poles were complicit in the Holocaust in my native country I may be prosecuted. I proclaim it here - which I do - and will do so there and wheresoever it is disputed with me be in Poland or not. I am a Pole. Dmovski was a Pole too and his supporters were anti Semites because they viewed Poles as a 'race'. I do not like some facts but I prefer to face them rather than ignore or rule them 'illegal' to mention but some Poles - a minority for sure - were complicit in the Holocaust. Some no doubt were forced by the Nazis but others were willing accomplices. If you are you are trying to tell me that there was no antisemetism in Poland pre WW2 you are talking BS. My Pater told me how his Pater said he had to wash underneath his foreskin or he would become a "Jew boy". It happened - probably only a minority - but deal with it. It is our guilt as a nation to have any of us be complicit with an enemy let alone an organised mass murder program but it happened.
To deny this by law is insanity of the highest order; it doesn't change the facts. To make it illegal to say Jan Stanislaw was a Polish national and fed gas into the gas chambers (I have been there) is insane - it is true and prosecute me if you wish. It is akin to Muscovy where history is changed by law - Crimea was always "Russian" etc - well no. I dare say I will be arrested or whatever next time I visit the country where most of people call home.
More importantly this PiS Government, though it has done some good things - the Three Seas Initiative is flawed in my view but better than nothing - the Baltic Pipeline (gas from Norway) etc... by turning inward has missed the best chance since the Khmelnytsky rebellion to rebuild a new form of the Commonwealth or Rzeczpospolita. The problem is to have a new Confederation you have to accept the views of others that might differ from yours - their religious practices - their freedom to express those views and all this supposedly Jagiellonian looking Government is Dmowski-an. Instead of reaching out to where it actually matters - for their own security - they are fart arsing with the Polish history of the Holocaust which by and large would otherwise be held not accountable anyway. These guys are deeply misguided.
So this PiS government is becoming in Polish terms increasingly Dmowski-an rather than Jagiellonian as they promised - some of them in person to me. I will not bore you with the history but Dmowski was basically a nationalist - at times an ancestor worshiper type nationalist who thought Poles were a 'narod', 'volk' or 'race' in English - a result perhaps of the Sarmatian theory that the Polish aristocracy are descended from old Iran. Fortunately he was in his time opposed by Piłsudski who saved Poland and perhaps all Europe from the Red Army in 1920. Piłsudski was a Polish Lithuanian and remembered the Commonwealth and the freedoms it allowed - I think religious freedom was granted in the 1500s from memory. But the Commonwealth evidently had to freedom of religion as it was comprised of what is today parts of Poland, all the Baltics, Belarus and most of Ukraine. Fine worship as you please - it is normal now. Should be anyway. No country is a 'pure race' - do the genetic studies - and trying to make it so would be impossible, pointless and most likely detrimental to the 'race' in gene pool diversity terms.
Now however if I proclaim that some Poles were complicit in the Holocaust in my native country I may be prosecuted. I proclaim it here - which I do - and will do so there and wheresoever it is disputed with me be in Poland or not. I am a Pole. Dmovski was a Pole too and his supporters were anti Semites because they viewed Poles as a 'race'. I do not like some facts but I prefer to face them rather than ignore or rule them 'illegal' to mention but some Poles - a minority for sure - were complicit in the Holocaust. Some no doubt were forced by the Nazis but others were willing accomplices. If you are you are trying to tell me that there was no antisemetism in Poland pre WW2 you are talking BS. My Pater told me how his Pater said he had to wash underneath his foreskin or he would become a "Jew boy". It happened - probably only a minority - but deal with it. It is our guilt as a nation to have any of us be complicit with an enemy let alone an organised mass murder program but it happened.
To deny this by law is insanity of the highest order; it doesn't change the facts. To make it illegal to say Jan Stanislaw was a Polish national and fed gas into the gas chambers (I have been there) is insane - it is true and prosecute me if you wish. It is akin to Muscovy where history is changed by law - Crimea was always "Russian" etc - well no. I dare say I will be arrested or whatever next time I visit the country where most of people call home.
More importantly this PiS Government, though it has done some good things - the Three Seas Initiative is flawed in my view but better than nothing - the Baltic Pipeline (gas from Norway) etc... by turning inward has missed the best chance since the Khmelnytsky rebellion to rebuild a new form of the Commonwealth or Rzeczpospolita. The problem is to have a new Confederation you have to accept the views of others that might differ from yours - their religious practices - their freedom to express those views and all this supposedly Jagiellonian looking Government is Dmowski-an. Instead of reaching out to where it actually matters - for their own security - they are fart arsing with the Polish history of the Holocaust which by and large would otherwise be held not accountable anyway. These guys are deeply misguided.
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