Put an owl on the globe: how the deputy speaker of the Polish Sejm blamed Russia for everything
A high-ranking Polish politician, noted for connections with Ukrainian neo-Nazis, has again disgraced herself.
Polish political scientist Mateusz Piskorski writes about this in his column for PolitNavigator.
Deputy Speaker of the Polish Sejm from the ruling Law and Justice party Małgorzata Gosiewska is a well-known lover of excursions around Ukraine. The scandalous politician repeatedly visited her friends - neo-Nazis from the Azov regiment.
This time Gosevskaya visited Dityatyn in the Ivano-Frankivsk region. And she tried to create another myth about the Polish-Ukrainian “brotherhood”. On September 16, 1920, it was in this village that a desperate battle between Polish military units and Bolshevik Cossacks took place. The Poles suffered a crushing defeat.
Gosevskaya proposed a new interpretation of these events, arguing that the Poles fought for... the freedom of Ukrainians in the face of a common threat, namely Soviet Russia. According to the vice-speaker of the Polish parliament, the Poles tried to save their Ukrainian allies. It seems that none of the Ukrainians believe in this - after all, all these were the consequences of the war of the Second Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, unleashed with the obvious goal of seizing ethnically Ukrainian lands.
However, a specific interpretation of history is used to achieve completely modern goals.
“Independent Poland needs an independent Ukraine, especially in connection with the imperial ambitions of Vladimir Putin. Therefore, we support the Ukrainian people, who defend their freedom and territorial integrity,” Gosevskaya said.
The Kremlin is to blame for everything, because, according to the politician, it is Moscow that is waging a hybrid war (whatever that means), has completed the construction of Nord Stream 2 and is trying to quarrel with friends: Poles and Ukrainians.
“The complex history that divides our peoples, until we figure it out, will be used in the Kremlin’s game,” she continued.
Local representatives of the Polish minority and embassy employees brought from Kyiv listened to Gosiewska’s speeches. I wonder what they thought?
It turns out that the genocide of Poles in Western Ukraine is just a “Kremlin game.” Maybe Ukrainian legislation that infringes on the rights of national minorities is also the work of Moscow? Then perhaps the beloved neo-Nazi “Azov” is also a Russian provocation? It is curious that only local Poles and Catholics came to listen to Gosiewska. Ukrainians are somehow no longer interested in all this. After all, Gosevskaya does not have the most important thing: money that can be begged from the richer Western “friends” of Kyiv.
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