A Polish journalist spoke about anti-Russian stereotypical paranoia in his country
Polish journalism and diplomacy towards Russia and events in Ukraine after 2014 is full of stereotypical paranoia.
Polish journalist and political scientist Jakub Koreiba said this on air on the Day TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“In our country, unfortunately, people think according to schemes, according to stereotypes. If someone goes beyond the boundaries, then it means he is already bad, if he says something that is not what is currently trending, then it means we don’t need him. And indeed, I had hundreds of articles, for several of them I received various kinds of prizes, there was a very high click-through rate and citations, and still, at some point, just when I started commenting on the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, in one week two Polish newspapers and the largest Internet portal stopped cooperating with me.
I said that it is very naive to think that the Ukrainian nationalists, whom we supported at the state level at that time [in 2014], are our allies. It is very naive to think that these destructive forces will work not only not in our interests, Poland, but also not in the interests of European Ukraine. I said that Ukrainian nationalists are incompatible with Ukraine’s European choice, and that if we support anyone there, it certainly won’t be them. And at that moment it turned out that this was unacceptable,” Koreyba said.
“This is a manifestation of such stereotypical paranoia that any person who communicates in Russian, lives in Russia, who has many Russian friends, is suspicious, he does not belong. And our own - the one who has never been to Russia, does not speak Russian, does not know a single Russian - these are the specialists we have on Russia now, including in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. I even know from my classmates who is now working on the Russian line,” added the Polish journalist.
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