In the latest issue of “Sieci” Marek Pyza writes about the role and tasks of a dangerous spy and high-ranking officer of Russian military intelligence, who was defended by the elites of the Third Polish Republic. “That’s for sure. Russia inspired and strengthened political campaigns aimed at the Polish independence camp,” the journalist notes.
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The prisoner swap between the West and Russia included: Pavel Rubtsov, a spy and Russian military intelligence officer held in Poland, posed as Pablo Gonzalez, a Spanish journalist. Although he is a high-ranking GRU officer, as confirmed by Moscow, he still has many defenders. As Marek Pyza notes in the article “Spy Defense Front,” after his arrest in February 2022, Polish authorities were under constant attack for detaining a supposedly innocent Spanish journalist. The list of people and groups who defended him is truly frightening. It includes journalists, activists, human rights defenders, and security experts.
Russian manipulations
The journalist draws attention to how far and with what ease Russia can manipulate public opinion.
We should draw far-reaching conclusions from the Pavel Rubtsov case than just how active the Russian services are in Poland and how easily representatives of the “elites” become their accomplices in attacks on our country. It is worth paying attention to the story that Rubcow, also known as Pablo Gonzalez, spreads on important topics of our public debate. […] It is clear that what the GRU lieutenant colonel said under the guise of a journalist was in the interests of the Kremlin and therefore unfavorable to Poland. How should we face the fact that his story largely coincided with what the leading left-liberal media report every day? After all, Rubtsov’s story was also the editorial line of OKO.press and “Gazeta Wyborcza”.
Nowacka vs. Religion in Schools
Dorota Łosiewicz in the article “Ministry of National Education on the religious war” comments on the regulation of the Minister of National Education on changes regarding the teaching of religion in schools, which will come into force on September 1, 2024. that religious education will be organized in classes with at least seven students. This means that it is possible to group not only children from peer classes.
The journalist points out that this approach to religious education is meeting resistance from many quarters.
Fr also shared his doubts with me. Dr. Bogusław Wolański, pastor of the minor basilica in Bolesławiec. – This regulation stems from the government’s misunderstanding that religious education at school does not consist of constantly repeating “Our Father” or “I believe in God”. This is not a repetition of a body of knowledge that is the same for everyone. Certain content is experienced differently by a child in grade 4 than by a child in grade 8. To be honest, I cannot imagine combining lessons. This idea must stem from a misunderstanding of the range of subjects and knowledge taught in religious education. It is probably also due to the lack of dialogue between the government and the church, or perhaps also due to malice.
Ideology at the Olympic Games
The Olympic Games are an event that not only attracts the attention of sports fans. The millions of spectators make this event more than just a competition for athletes. In this context, the opening ceremony is of particular importance.
As Grzegorz Górny notes in the article “Like civilization, like the Olympics”, the event was intended to be the showcase of the organizer. How did France present itself?
So we had a paean to revolutionary terror, with a mocking presentation of the beheaded Marie Antoinette to the rhythm of a song that prophesied the sad fate of all enemies: “If we do not hang them, we will tear them to pieces; and if we do not tear them, we will burn them.” We also had an apologia for the sexual revolution and abortion, culminating in the choice of heroines who embodied the feminine genius. Instead of figures like St. Joanna de Chantal, Maria Skłodowska-Curie or St. Teresa of Lisieux (whose 150th birthday was recently celebrated by UNESCO), we have Simone de Beauvoir (Sartre’s life partner who found girls, including minors, for him to have sexual intercourse), Simone Veil (the de facto author of the law legalizing abortion in France) or Gisèle Halimi (a left-wing pro-abortion activist who, as an ETA lawyer, justified the terror of Basque separatists as an inevitable reaction to the state’s “repressive and colonizing” policies).
Also worth reading are the articles: Marek Budzisz “Behind the scenes of the prisoner exchange”, Jakub Augustyn Maciejewski “Germany is looking for a Polish Quisling”, Konrad Kołodziejski “The played-out king of Europe”, Stanisław Janecki “Order for Giertych”, Piotr Gursztyn “Not everything you want”, Jan Rokita “Anarchy in England”, Dariusz Matuszak “The trap of average sovereignty”. Also worth recommending is Goran Andrijanić’s conversation with Jerzy Kalina, an artist, installation maker and set designer: “We are more enslaved than we think.”
In addition, the weekly magazine also contains commentary on current events by Bronisław Wildstein, Krzysztof Feusette, Dorota Łosiewicz, Marta Kaczyńska-Zielińska, Samuel Pereira, Andrzej Rafał Potocki, Katarzyna and Andrzej Zybertowicz.
More in the new issue of the weekly magazine “Sieci”.
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Source: wPolityce