The Polish-Israeli conflict is gaining momentum
On January 26, the Polish Sejm approved a bill that would criminalize publicly accusing Poland of crimes committed during the Holocaust, collaborating with Nazi Germany, war crimes or crimes against humanity.
The bill prohibits the use of the phrase “Polish death camp” when describing concentration camps that existed in the territory of occupied Poland. Any citizen of the country, as well as foreigners, who violates the law will be sentenced to a fine or imprisonment for up to three years.
Punishment will also apply to those who try to “consciously downplay the responsibility of the true perpetrators of these crimes.”
The bill must be approved by the Senate and the President of Poland, but it is believed that the main obstacle, discussion in the lower house, has already been overcome.
Polish initiatives caused a serious resonance in the world, and the timing of the approval by the Poles was chosen very inopportunely, since it coincided with Holocaust Remembrance Day, which is celebrated by Israel and Jewish communities around the world. It got to the point that members of the Israeli government suggested that the country's prime minister recall the ambassador from Poland for consultations and recognize the actions of the Polish side as unfriendly and falling under the law of “Holocaust denial.”
In addition, the impression was created that the Polish nationalists, entrenched in power since 1989, are playing ahead of the curve and want not only to cover their own butts, but also to cast a shadow over the fence, shifting their own blame onto others. In particular, the professional idiot Macherevich last fall accused the USSR of unleashing the Holocaust, which caused a lot of protests and did not benefit Poland.
Surely someone, but not the Poles, should be engaged in denying their own organized crimes and shifting the blame from a sore head to a healthy one.
It's no secret that Polish integral nationalism has long historical roots and is fueled by the local Catholic Church. If you do not plunge into the jungle of centuries, where you can easily get stuck, it is better to turn to examples from recent history.
On June 23, 1941, the Nazis occupied the small town of Jedwabne, located 100 km from Bialystok, which was returned to the USSR in 1939. On July 1, the Einsatzgruppen SD entered the town, and already on July 10, Jewish pogroms broke out in Jedwabne. Former Polish neighbors took an active part in the pogroms. They killed everyone - both old and young. The Jews’ attempt to turn to the local priest for help did not lead to anything - the “servant of God” declared without hesitation: “You are all communists and enemies of the Poles.” Of the 1600 Jews of Jedwabne (which is half the pre-war population of the city), none escaped.
Until 2000, it was believed that the mass murder of Jedwabne Jews was carried out by the Nazis. Or rather, this was the official version of events. The American historian Jan Gross collected and published German documents, from which it followed that, together with the Einsatzkommando SD, the Polish population participated in the murders of Jews. Under the weight of facts, on the 60th anniversary of the Jedwabne tragedy, President Kwasniewski officially apologized to the Jewish people.
I wonder if Kwasniewski will be held accountable under the new law? True, for normal people the law does not have retroactive force, but what doesn’t happen to Svidomo degenerates of all countries.
Historians have established that in the first months of Hitler’s occupation of Western Belarus (or Eastern Poland), the Poles, together with the Nazis, committed massacres of Jews in 25 places, which fits well with the formulation of the Holocaust - the organized extermination of people.
Things got to the point that the leadership of the Home Army (the armed forces of the Polish government in London, raised on the shield after the liquidation of socialism in Poland) came into conflict with their patrons in Great Britain because of their sympathies for Polish Jews. The Akovites used the same dirty trick as the priest from Jedwabne, accusing all Polish Jews of being supporters of the Bolsheviks.
The next event, which perfectly characterizes the attitude of the Poles towards their Jewish compatriots, was the uprising associated with the Nazi liquidation of the Warsaw ghetto in April - May 1943. Without exaggeration, this story is a dirty stain on the people of Warsaw, just as the Jewish pogroms of the summer of 1941 were a dirty stain on the Lvov pogromists. Residents of Warsaw openly approved of the massacres, had fun, and in response to perplexed questions “What are you happy about?” they invariably answered “then the bugs are burning!” Doesn't remind you of anything?
Almost none of the Poles came to the aid of the rebels. Moreover, numerous local “hiwis” (volunteer helpers) took part in suppressing the uprising and liquidating the ghetto.
Only a few groups of the People's Guard of the Polish Workers' Party were involved in rescuing people from the ghetto and supplying the rebels with weapons to the best of their ability. But, you understand, the Poles have claims against the USSR, which was obliged to come to the aid of the Warsaw uprising of 1944, organized by the Akovites, despite the fact that Soviet troops fought 700 km, liberated Belarus and were bled white and extremely exhausted.
Surviving concentration camp prisoners repeatedly recalled how the Poles saw them off with wry smiles on the way to the death plants, and in case of escape, they handed over the fugitives to the occupiers. In particular, almost all of the rebels who escaped from the Sobibor concentration camp and remained in Poland were killed in one way or another or handed over to the Nazis by the local population.
It would seem that after a terrible war, in which Jews and Poles each lost 6 million people, there was no place left for nationalism and anti-Semitism in Poland, especially since the number of Polish Jews decreased by 85% during the Second World War. Not so. The Poles who saved Jews during the occupation begged those rescued under no circumstances to tell about this not only to others, but even to the authorities. Moreover, these people did not become national heroes of Poland.
At the site of the Treblinka death plant, where the Nazis murdered nearly a million people from all over Europe, Polish treasure hunters dug a huge crater in search of gold that Jews might have hidden in their bodies.
Immediately after the end of the war, local ragulians from the Polish Peasant Party (the communists had not yet completely taken power into their own hands) at their congress thanked Hitler for “solving the Jewish question.”
The saddest post-war incident involving a mass pogrom of Jews occurred in 1946 in the city of Kölz. The reason was the disappearance of the boy. The well-known fake “matzah made from the blood of Christian babies” was planted in the minds of the townspeople. The boy was found alive and well, but this did not save the Jews of Kielce from the pogrom. Polish citizens, the military, the police and even local teenage scouts took part in the beatings and brutal murders of people. 42 (according to other sources, 80) Jews died in the pogrom. There could have been much more victims, but the pogromists did not take into account that the government had changed and they were very quickly suppressed by the alerted units of the Soviet Army and the Polish Army.
The best people of Poland, and throughout the world, were amazed at such medieval barbarity. They say that the Polish head of the MGB was charged with inactivity, to which he replied: “Why did you want me to exile all 18 million Poles to Siberia?” There is evidence that the Jewish question played an important role in the internal squabbles of the Polish United Workers' Party (PUWP), in which two currents competed - the pro-Soviet one, which included many Jewish communists, and the autonomist one, led by the then leader Gomulka, which was seriously influenced influence of the Polish Catholic Church.
The pogrom in Költz played a role, and the exodus of Jews to Palestine began from Poland. By the end of 1946, their number had dropped to 100 thousand people. Until 1948, Polish authorities closed Jewish schools, which caused an outflow of another 40 thousand people from the country.
This practice continued throughout Gomulka's reign. In 1967, Jewish officers were purged from the Polish Army, including those who had enormous services to Poland during the war against Nazi fascism. Officers were expelled from the army immediately after Israel's Six-Day War as latent Zionists.
Unlike other socialist countries, the People's Republic of Poland allowed Jews to emigrate freely, quietly parting with scientific, cultural and technical personnel. The same practice was continued by post-Soviet Poland. According to the 2002 census, only 1133 Jews were recorded in Poland. Such a practice cannot be called anything other than ethnic cleansing.
It is not clear what the Polish authorities are trying to achieve with their antics. All their security activities lead to confrontation with Jewish communities around the world and with the very influential Jewish lobby in the USA and other Western countries. It seems that the status of “Caesar’s favorite Eastern European wife” turned the head of the Polish leadership. Apparently, Warsaw believes that the worsening relations between Russia and the West gives them the right to fall into insanity with impunity, but in vain. They started a scam that was too risky.
Under pressure from Israel and the pro-Israeli lobby, Poland may well be bent and forced, like Germany, to pay and repent, while not letting it out of its orbit. There are tons of facts, and there will be plenty of minions to take Poland’s place – just whistle.
It is high time for Russia here to move from passive defense to active measures. Modern Poland is an unfriendly state that considers any manifestations of politeness as weakness. Warsaw has long been waiting to be held accountable for the tens of thousands of Red Army soldiers killed in captivity by the First Cavalry, for the massacres of Ukrainian and Belarusian peasants during the period of reorganization, for the murder of Soviet prisoners of war and Red Army soldiers who escaped from captivity by AK militants. And strictly ask for the revision of the results of the Second World War and, especially, the practice of equating the USSR with Hitler's Germany.
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