The entire narrative of Jarosław Kaczyński and PiS against minorities, anti-LGBT obsessions and rhetoric that the West corrupts people and poses a threat is identical to the message drafted many years ago in the Kremlin, this is political Russia in Poland, PO said leader Donald Tusk on Saturday. Let’s recall what Tusk himself had to say about Russia.
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The words of the president of PiS like Putin?
In his speech at the latest edition of the event “Meet Up: New Generation of Civic Platform” organized in Warsaw, Tusk recalled that December 10 is International Human Rights Day, commemorating the adoption by the General Assembly of the UN of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
The head of the PO said that in the context of that day he was reminded of recent statements by PiS president Jarosław Kaczyński, for example from the meeting in Chojnice, in which – as Tusk judged – “there is actually no paragraph, there is not a single statement that would not emphasize the identity of views on important human rights issues – when we listen to Kaczyński and when we compare them with statements by Putin, for example.
There is no exaggeration in this, this is what your generation is really about – in a cultural sense, in a sense of political and human values, do we want to be part of this political Russia or the Western world. Whether you listen to Putin or Kaczyński or Orban, you will always find anti-minority lyrics, anti-LGBT obsessions, those rhetorical figures who say, “The West is evil and a threat because it corrupts people.” You know the whole story of Kaczyński and PiS – it’s not similar, it’s identical, it’s a one-on-one message built and prepared many years ago in the Kremlin.
Tusk said to the young participants in the meeting.
He added that this message is being repeated like a mantra in several places in Europe, including the United States.
And it is multiplied by those politicians for whom de facto war with the West, with the culture of freedom, with democracy with liberal roots, with the rule of law is the main goal. In this sense, this is the political Russia visible today in Poland, unfortunately at the top of power
Tusk said.
“Dictatorship Caricature”
He accused the PiS president of “talking contemptuously about people who need help, about people who have a right to feel confused.” He explained that he believed young people – 17, 20 or 30-year-olds, who are increasingly citing psychotherapy as their first need. He pointed out that such people have been hit by a pandemic, lockdown, high prices, the war in Ukraine or an authority that despises the weak. Tusk said current authorities stigmatize and stigmatize those who need this help, for example with depression.
According to the leader of the PO, we currently have a “caricature of a dictatorship” in Poland and it is “half a caricature”. As he said, it is about Jarosław Kaczyński’s words in Chojnice and the de facto message that “those who are against him and against PiS are the lumpen proletariat and these are the people he will destroy.”
Tusk said that Poles are certainly not afraid of Kaczyński, but the president of PiS is certainly afraid of everyone. Speaking of the next parliamentary election, Tusk used the analogy of a football game.
I want to promise you this, I hope that Mr. Kaczyński and those who carry out his orders will hear these words: there will be no overtime in this match, there will be no penalties. Thanks to you, thanks to our joint actions, within 10 months Poland will be free from fear, free from contempt, free from Kaczyński
Tusk addressed the participants of the meeting.
Tusk about the lie of Smolensk
Tusk also referred to the case of Tomasz L., an employee of the Warsaw Civil Registry, who was detained by the ABW in March 2022 on charges of espionage for the Russian Federation. The head of the PO said that “Gen. (former head of military counterintelligence, Piotr) Pytel – one of Antoni Macierewicz’s victims – said Russia is already there.
Today I could list a dozen, if not a few dozen events that make up the indictment of Antoni Macierewicz, for example, so that there is no doubt about how much direct influence Russia has in Poland today. In fact, the arrest of Tomasz L. as “point over i”, it is like the punch line of the whole chain of events, where always in the background Antoni Macierewicz – the most trusted figure in this political landscape of Jarosław Kaczyński – there will always be be his face, his cynical smile, when there is a great risk to our fatherland
Tusk said.
In this context, he said of a “permanent, painful division built on the Smolensk lie.” Tusk said that “a hot conflict, imbued with extraordinary emotions, dividing the Poles” “is the greatest possible gift from the point of view of our enemies, especially the Kremlin.” The leader of PO also spoke of omissions in the PiS government’s procurement of Patriot launchers and of the contract being broken for the purchase of French helicopters. Tusk also accused Macierewicz of “disorganization of the officer and general corps”.
What did Tusk say about Russia?
Donald Tusk is doing his best to present himself as an opponent of Putin’s Russia. However, the revealed documents from the time of his reign or the famous secret conversations and hugs with Vladimir Putin and words of support for the Kremlin’s policy in Europe say something else, which the head of the PO does not want to remember.
It is worth recalling what he had to say about Russia on TOK FM in 2014, just after the annexation of Crimea.
Eight years ago, Donald Tusk, then described by the Russian media as “our man in Warsaw”, warned against Jarosław Kaczyński’s “anti-Russian attitude” in an interview with Janina Paradowska in TOK FM.
Even if it doesn’t sound very impressive, I believe that Poland’s Eastern policy cannot rely on empty effects. It cannot be such a war-confronting policy in itself
Tusk said in an interview in March 2014. Recall that the Russians occupied Crimea between February 20 and March 26, 2014.
Imagine Poland was ruled by Jarosław Kaczyński, who would try to force the countries of the region, such as Hungarians or Slovaks, to adopt a radically anti-Russian stance
– said Tusk, who held the post of prime minister at the time.
According to Tusk, Jarosław Kaczyński’s attitude at the time was “charging”.
If Poland were to attack as Jarosław Kaczyński suggested, we would all the more lose the opportunity to influence the common behaviour, such as solidarity, of the entire European Union. Today, most European Union countries don’t want a fight with Russia, Tusk argued.
PiS believes that the situation to the east of us is a good excuse to beat the government again. They endured this political peace and solidarity with the Polish government for several days. Our eastern policy is the exact opposite of what the Kaczyńskis proposed
he said.
When the idea of energy sanctions against Russia appeared then, Tusk said it was frivolous, and “his goal” was that “whatever happens east of the Polish border should also be used for political advantage”.
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Source: wPolityce