A heated discussion arose on Twitter about the attitude of Gazeta Wyborcza, its journalists and the editor-in-chief towards Putin’s Russia. And it all started with the reaction of editor Dominika Wielowieyska to the memory of Putin’s letter to the Poles, published by “GW” and proudly displayed on the cover on the eve of the 70th anniversary of the outbreak of World War II and at the same time just over a year after the Russian aggression against Georgia.
Who and what feels humiliated?
In connection with the submission of “Gazeta Wyborcza” journalist Dominika Wielowieyska, many journalists, politicians and Twitter users today recall Putin’s letter to the Poles, published in “GW” on August 31, 2009. It was not only on the eve of the 70th anniversary of the outbreak of the Second World War, but also, interestingly enough, a little over a year after the Russian aggression against Georgia, which should at least have given many observers of Polish and world politics food for thought about the intentions from Vladimir Putin.
I feel humiliated as a Pole. The authorities violate the norms of democracy and our allies admonish us like a schoolboy. What a degradation and humiliation. Poland is a proud country. It has been a reliable partner and member of the Euro-Atlantic community for many years. Now she is still trapped
– wrote Dominika Wielowieyska on Twitter today. Deputy Agriculture Minister Janusz Kowalski replied to the journalist that he also felt humiliated as a Pole, albeit for slightly different reasons.
As a Pole, I feel humiliated that Gazeta Wyborcza that publishes texts by Vladimir Putin is published in Poland.
Kowalski wasn’t the only Twitter user to remind Wielowieyska of her newspaper’s not always glorious stance on Russia.
August 31, 2009. What do you have to do to appear on the front page of Gazeta Wyborcza? The invasion of Georgia a year earlier.
How was the anti-missile shield?
Wielowieyska’s editor must have thought that the entry about President Lech Kaczyński and Jarosław Kaczyński’s appeal to the Russians triggered the “trap card”, but that didn’t end the discussion.
Did you know that in 2010 President Lech Kaczyński accepted Vladimir Putin’s invitation and planned to come to the Victory Day celebrations on May 9? And along with General Jaruzelski? Jarosław Kaczyński himself spoke about this in a message “to the Russian brothers”
Do you know that there are circles in Poland that have always judged Russia closely, guided by the Polish raison d’état, and idealize it for incomprehensible reasons?
Prof. Slawomir Cenckiewicz was also present at the discussion. Wielowieyska also tried to convince the director of the Military History Bureau in the Rembertów district of Warsaw that President Lech Kaczyński’s visit to Moscow (which was canceled for obvious reasons and whose context the journalist likes to omit) and the appeal of the PiS president “to the Russian brothers” (criticized at the time by PO politicians and left-liberal media as a “fake gesture for publicity” and as an action aimed at the election campaign, because Jarosław Kaczyński was running in the presidential elections at that time ) is like publishing on the cover of a letter from a leader who already then betrayed dictatorial and aggressive tendencies (he actually from the beginning of his tenure in the Kremlin, which did not begin with normal, democratic elections, but those who agree are with editor Wielowieyska have read Piątek and Rzeczkowski, but not necessarily Kasparov or Politkowska, so they don’t need to know certain things).
Mixing the ritual of politics (wrong is a fact) with the reality of strategy: it was not the president who carried out the reset! PLK negotiated the anti-missile shield agreement for Poland with the great support of @WaszczykowskiW, who was expelled from the government – the government fought the agreement, renegotiated and MD collapsed (there is a bunch of documents.)
replied Cenckiewicz.
However, you need to read more about the anti-missile shield to know what happened next
Editor Wielowieyska decided to mask certain shortcomings in knowledge about the anti-missile shield situation with ad personam attacks.
It’s funny that you write about the shield, an admirer of Antoni Macierewicz, who blocked many military projects to the detriment of Poland. And he was so damaging as head of the Ministry of National Defense that PiS eventually expelled him from government himself, including all his employees
Classic. The fall of the shield under Obama with the humiliation of Poland – September 17, 2009, agreement between Poland and the US on MD August 14, 2008. What has happened since November 2008 … is good
Witold Waszczykowski, the former head of Polish diplomacy, 2019 PiS MEP, also spoke:
I hope the committee will look into the anti-Polish behavior of the Tusk government regarding the US missile defense base
It is not surprising that Dominika Wielowieyska tries so nervously to swear to reality. “Gazeta Wyborcza”, because for years it complained not only about Polish “Russophobia” and how Jarosław Kaczyński (then leader of the largest opposition party) constantly “threatened” Russia and Putin, but even after the Russian aggression against Ukraine often tried to the pen of his editor-in-chief, to convince that the Russians are not to blame.
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Source: wPolityce