For Poland’s right wing, the European Union and the broader West have become the prime sources of “threats.” That’s where they claim to see indoctrination and the loss of sovereignty. They brandish absurd accusations about “German Tusk” and an “anti-Polish government,”... more link in the comments.

Every Polish patriot understands where the real threat to our sovereignty and security comes from today. It comes from the East. It comes from Russia. There is no grey zone here, no “middle ground.” Either we remain part of the West, or we will be forced into Russia’s sphere of influence #Poland

The blood once shed for the homeland by Polish heroes has become a tool of social control. The Christian faith of mercy — a convenient instrument for stigmatising the stranger. There is no greater act of national betrayal, than to accept this caricature of Polishness as the national creed. #Poland

Those to whom the ruling class tries to ingratiate itself — through its rhetoric on migrants, its posture toward Germany, its performative ‘anti-Banderism’, its implausible Euroscepticism, — hold them in contempt. They mock them behind closed doors, laughing into their fists #Poland

Regardless of political upheavals, for a quarter of a century during our transformation, our orientation was clear: Westward. But over the past decade, a different language has begun to dominate — one that sees in tolerance, openness, and cooperation not strength, but threat #poland

Ta rozmowa to była medytacja nad tym jak wyzwolić się ze sztuczności, pułapki oczekiwań, własnych ambicji. Gdy Marek Kondrat mówił o młodzieńczej miłości, dziewczynie, która musiała wyjechać w 68, którą po latach spotkał w Sztokholmie, miał łzy w oczach. Ja też

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