How fortunate that today Bronisław Komorowski’s words are just the chatter of a retired politician, not the head of state’s manifesto, and that you need not attach much importance to them. Let him privately miss good relations with Moscow and brag about drinking vodka with Medvedev a few months after the Smolensk disaster.
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In an interview with Bogdan Rymanowski on Radio Zet, the former president stated that the reset policy with Russia undertaken by Donald Tusk’s government in 2008 was not a mistake:
She was right, but she failed. because Putin became president, who fully explained Russian intentions regarding Eastern Europe. (…) I have always believed that just as we once managed to achieve reconciliation with the Germans and Ukrainians, we should also try to facilitate such reconciliation with the Russians. I am sure that if Putin loses and the arrangements in Russia change, the subject will come back.
He also does not regret that in December 2010 he drank vodka with herring with Dmitry Medvedev, because “then Medvedev did not say what he says now.”
He was seen as an alternative to Putin. We tried to encourage him to act against him (…) one should be aware that Polish-Russian reconciliation, like Polish-German or Polish-Ukrainian, is possible on the basis of democratic societies. (…) As long as Russia is undemocratic, reconciliation will be artificial or there will be no reconciliation at all. That doesn’t mean you should give up. (…) such an agreement is in our Polish national interest.
How many absurdities! In a row:
Vladimir Putin was the first president of Russia from 1999 to 2008. He then invaded Chechnya and Georgia, pursued hostile policies towards neighboring countries, including Poland, rigged elections and history, and sought to subordinate Europe to Moscow in energy matters. Didn’t Komorowski see that? Suddenly he saw the new face of Russia just because Putin jumped from president to prime minister and switched places with Medvedev?
The whole world knew that Medvedev was just one of Putin’s hand puppets, ready to carry out every order of the new tsar. And Komorowski thought he was a cool dude who liked Deep Purple and you could chat with him over a glass.
Who would the former head of state want to reconcile with in our national interest? With killers in red star hats, or perhaps their wives waiting for new fur coats and toilet bowls stolen from Ukraine? With the so-called ordinary Russians supporting a barbarian invasion? With these savages mentally trapped in the time of Stalin’s empire?
It’s just a big, big shame that the former president of Poland says such things in public. On the other hand, it explains a lot about what the government funded us in 2007-2015.
I can’t wait for the extraordinary commission before which the former president will be able to talk in detail about how the Polish authorities saw Russia, what business they wanted to do with it, how they allegedly tried to play the top Russian officials. Poles deserve this pathetic spectacle so that they understand into what quagmire the PO team tried to push us.
Although Komorowski swears for now that he will not appear before the committee.
I trust that I can be subpoenaed (…) if you believe that the committee is unconstitutional, you should not appear before such a committee. But this requires an agreed, joint action plan. (…) I expect the leaders of the democratic opposition parties to propose a way to respond to such calls by an unconstitutionally appointed commission.
It’s an interesting understanding of the rule of law, which the former president also fights for, so strongly anarchist. This helplessness of his is nothing short of endearing – he won’t show up when called, but he needs a good alibi. Write them to me – it seems attractive! Ex-Guardian of the Constitution…
When asked if he is as clean as a tear when it comes to relations with Moscow, he replies:
I think even more.
Congratulate you on your well-being. I will never forget how Komorowski laughed in April 2010 at Okęcie waiting for the next plane with the bodies of the victims of the Smolensk disaster.
Nor how in Moscow in May 2010 he awards the Officer’s Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland to twenty Russians “for extraordinary merits and commitment to actions by the Russian side after the disaster” (remember there was no rescue operation, and among the awards were m. forensic doctors who falsified autopsy work, falsified medical records, etc.). I will not forget his awards – promotions for the head of BOR Marian Janicki or the head of the Chief Prosecutor’s Office Krzysztof Parulski. The first ignored the president’s safety during the trip to Smolensk. The latter was the head of the investigation into the disaster.
I will never forget his words when, a month after the tragedy, it was reported that the remains of bodies had been found, and he reassured: “I would suggest in moderation to create the atmosphere that a piece of clothing has been found somewhere. It’s not a big deal, it’s just a respectful thing to do.”
I will not forget how the opposition in the Sejm asked Prime Minister Tusk to take over Russia’s investigation, and Komorowski said that discussions on this issue “could perhaps only mean that some unfounded and quite nervous opinions about the Russian or Polish investigation be deepened.”
I will also remember him telling Rzeczpospolita in August: “Contrary to popular belief, I believe that the Russian side demonstrates a far-reaching understanding of Polish needs.”
I will never forget how the Russian MAK announced its false report in January 2011, and Komorowski, who blamed the Polish pilots, said that “the matter is extremely simple”. No word on the “state that passed the test” after 4/10.
And how he started the war for the cross in Krakowskie Przedmieście.
I will not forget that vodka with Medvedev in the winter of 2010. This is what he said years later about persuading the Russian president to shoot at the Belvedere: “Christmas is coming…in Poland people drink vodka and eat herring. There was vodka, there was herring, it was very tasty. Then we understood what he meant by enjoying Medvedev’s visit with the words: “The bad drought in Polish-Russian relations has come to an end.” Let’s add that, according to the press release from the president’s office, the leaders at the time discussed the Smolensk disaster.
Nor will I forget his defense of the WSI, nor his signature to the National Security Strategy, which ignored threats from Russia.
I will remember the secret meetings during the presidential term with Nikolai Patrushev, the former head of the FSB, and later the secretary of the Security Council of Russia and one of the architects of the invasion of Ukraine. I would like to hear his account of these meetings for the special committee.
And then let him return to Buda Ruska.
Source: wPolityce