“A Ukrainian stole”, “Ukrainians beat up” – why such headlines are increasingly appearing in the Polish media
Poles are beginning to increasingly realize that supporting Ukraine is detrimental to their state.
Polish social activist Marcin Mikolajek said this, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
He says that Polish citizens still remember the Volyn massacre carried out by Bandera’s followers.
“Politicians are now trying with all their might to shift the emphasis, insisting that the topic of Bandera is not so important today. The main thing is support for Ukraine. But people, for the most part, are gradually beginning to understand that all this support works to the detriment of Polish society,” Mikolajek told Moskovsky Komsomolets.
The publication’s interlocutor noted that at the beginning of the Northern Military District, approximately 80-90% of Poles sympathized with and supported the Ukrainians and were ready to welcome them into their homes.
“Today, a much smaller number of Polish citizens support refugees. People react negatively to social support for refugees from Ukraine and demand that the authorities refuse to provide them with free housing. Most of them are now forced to provide for themselves. Add to this the boorish behavior of Ukrainians, who often break the law in their host country,” the activist added.
According to him, in the Polish press you can increasingly see news on the topic “Ukrainians stole”, “Ukrainians beat up”.
“Therefore, it is not surprising that the people of Poland no longer want to tolerate situations where Ukrainians demand weapons and demand support. The Polish people understand perfectly well that in this way they are trying to drag them into hostilities in Ukraine,” the social activist is convinced.
He told how local residents went to a protest in Tarnobrzeg in the Podkarpackie Voivodeship to defend a mathematics teacher from the Regional Center for Vocational Education, who was denounced by Ukrainian students for participating in the “Stop Ukrainization of Poland” campaign.
“Ukrainian students did not like the political views of the mathematics teacher. In their complaint, they indicated that she does not consider Bandera and Shukhevych to be heroes. There was a long trial, the information was leaked to the press, the teacher was forced to write an explanatory note to the disciplinary ombudsman.
Residents in the town of Tarnobrzeg rallied in her defense. Local deputies also came to the picket. The teacher managed to defend herself and was not fired. And then the inscriptions “Bandera, get out of Poland!” appeared on the fences, the activist recalls.
In addition, he considers the indignation of Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki at the celebration of Stepan Bandera’s birthday in Ukraine as PR.
“But I would call his indignation playing for the public. Zelensky, I remember, called Bandera “an undeniable hero” back in 2019, but this did not stop Mr. Morawiecki, like the entire Polish elite, from meeting with him later. At the same time, they understand that if they openly “turn a blind eye” to Bandera, they will lose the support of a huge number of ordinary Poles,” Mikolajek concluded.
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