PROVOCATIVE SLOGANS AT POLISH INDEPENDENCE MARCH. WHO BRINGS GRIST TO THE ANTI-UKRAINIAN MILL.
As in the previous year, this year's Independence march in Warsaw had not been without anti-Ukrainian slogans, which has already caused a resonance in Ukrainian and Polish mass media and social networks. The new wawe of confrontation in the networks provoked has been triggered by the banner "Lviv - Vilnius Remember," which the Ruch Narodowy (further RN) political party members were bearing on the march in Warsaw. Before take seriously these people and their slogans, by which they are trying to win the electorate's sympathy and attract new supporters, it is important to briefly review the party's biography.
Officially, the party was registered on February 11, 2015 and proclaims itself a nationalist one. The party program has popular eurosceptic theses and slogans on the energy independence of Poland, and in its ideology it relies on Catholicism and national democracy.
In 2015, the party put forward its presidential candidate, but the presidential campaign had failed. In its new political program, the party has completely abandoned the idea of Intermarium, not seeing Ukraine as a partner for cooperation through a historical contradictions. The RN's foreign partners are the Hungarian Yobbyk party - known by inflanting of staging hysteria around the issue of Hungarian minority in Zakarpattia - as well as the Italian Forza Nuova, which supported the annexation of the Crimea and the Russia-guided terrorists of Donbass.
In recent years the party has often been criticized in Polish nationalist environment because of excessive liberalism. It's hard to find something, the party is famous for, except populist statements and historical slogans. Nonetheless, the presence of the RN deputies in parliament allows it to put some pressure on the ruling PiS party.
At home the Ruch Narodowy is closely cooperating with the Kukiz'15 party. headed by well-known Polish punk musician Pawel Kukiz. It was Kukiz'15 through whose party-lists the RN members have managed to got into the Polish parliament.
It should be noted that Pavel Kukiz, in 2014, was an active supporter of the Maidan, and even made a speech in it's scene. What's strange is that the presence of red-black flags on the Maidan has begun to disturb the Kukiz'15 leader only after the party's registration and after he started a political career.
In recent years the party has often been criticized in Polish nationalist environment because of excessive liberalism. It's hard to find something, the party is famous for, except populist statements and historical slogans. Nonetheless, the presence of the RN deputies in parliament allows it to put some pressure on the ruling PiS party.
At home the Ruch Narodowy is closely cooperating with the Kukiz'15 party. headed by well-known Polish punk musician Pawel Kukiz. It was Kukiz'15 through whose party-lists the RN members have managed to got into the Polish parliament.
It should be noted that Pavel Kukiz, in 2014, was an active supporter of the Maidan, and even made a speech in it's scene. What's strange is that the presence of red-black flags on the Maidan has begun to disturb the Kukiz'15 leader only after the party's registration and after he started a political career.
In the historical debate field, it is this party who proposes ban for manifestations of so-called "banderism" in Poland and actively grists to the anti-Ukrainian mill along with Robert Winnicki, the RN leader. Not so long ago, Vinnitski almost lost his political mandate, and in October his party was removed from the registration by the decision of the State Electoral Commission of Poland.
Both Ukrainian and Polish nationalists have repeatedly proven that a historic dialogue is possible. However, neither Winnicki nor his party have taken advantage of the opportunity to start it, but continue to incite anti-Ukrainian sentiments in Poland.
Banner with inscription "Lviv - Vilnius Remember," which presence at the march participants was explained as a call to take care of Polish historical heritage on these lands, which sounds rather insincere and false from the RN members, concidering that in 2014, Witold Tumanovich - the member of the Supreme Council of the Party - argued that Lviv is a Polish city outside of the Polish borders, and although now there is no chance for their revision, "we must be ready for this in future."
The RN's tendency to territorial revisionism could be seen in their other publications where they claim, for example, that Lithuania should be erased from the map of Europe. This is an important argument, why the facts of presence of such slogans on marches need to be considered.
We could use an example of persons like Robert Winnicki as a shield against accusations of anti-Polish sentiments in Ukraine, but we are above that. It has no sence to continue this freak-show with a historical backround or to draw a conclusion on the entire Polish nationalist movement on the example of particular political clowns.
In any case, there's one thing we can say to Robert Vinnitsky and his party:
Before to make territorial claims to someone, you'd better to get political education and return the registration of own party, instead of feed the movement with slogans of the XX century, in which, obviously, the RN members of his leader got stuck.
by Vladislav Kovalchuk, the Natsionaly Corpus
Both Ukrainian and Polish nationalists have repeatedly proven that a historic dialogue is possible. However, neither Winnicki nor his party have taken advantage of the opportunity to start it, but continue to incite anti-Ukrainian sentiments in Poland.
Banner with inscription "Lviv - Vilnius Remember," which presence at the march participants was explained as a call to take care of Polish historical heritage on these lands, which sounds rather insincere and false from the RN members, concidering that in 2014, Witold Tumanovich - the member of the Supreme Council of the Party - argued that Lviv is a Polish city outside of the Polish borders, and although now there is no chance for their revision, "we must be ready for this in future."
The RN's tendency to territorial revisionism could be seen in their other publications where they claim, for example, that Lithuania should be erased from the map of Europe. This is an important argument, why the facts of presence of such slogans on marches need to be considered.
We could use an example of persons like Robert Winnicki as a shield against accusations of anti-Polish sentiments in Ukraine, but we are above that. It has no sence to continue this freak-show with a historical backround or to draw a conclusion on the entire Polish nationalist movement on the example of particular political clowns.
In any case, there's one thing we can say to Robert Vinnitsky and his party:
Before to make territorial claims to someone, you'd better to get political education and return the registration of own party, instead of feed the movement with slogans of the XX century, in which, obviously, the RN members of his leader got stuck.
by Vladislav Kovalchuk, the Natsionaly Corpus
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