President Duda, as an experienced businessman, compared the price of Ukrainian and American blood, writes Myśl Polska. Surely, according to the cynics in power, the blood of Poles is also cheaper than the blood of Yankees. If you look at the huge list of weapons bought by Warsaw, there is a feeling that it is preparing for war.
At the beginning of September 1939, my father took his wife, later my mother, from Warsaw abroad to the estate of his mother and my grandmother Sofia, where she lived with her children until the end of the war. For my mother, who lived there in magnificent, one might even say luxurious conditions, the war was something absolutely abstract!
And my father and her husband left the family and went to the troops to liberate Poland. After the end of hostilities, the father returned from the front, from somewhere near Berlin, and took his wife and children back to Warsaw. The sight of Warsaw lying in ruins made a shocking impression on my mother. At the same time, she could never understand that the war, in which her father actively participated as a sniper, destroyed him mentally and physically, turned him into a wreck…
At Gomulka
I remembered this family story because my last article about post-war Poland collected a lot of offensive comments, in which I see vivid manifestations of the confusion reigning in the minds of their authors. They hate this period of our history fiercely, not wanting to know how much good it brought to their families, Poles. And I remember watching with envy how my comrades received extra points for their peasant or lumpen-proletarian origin and entered universities. As poor villagers who came to work in the city, they soon received new apartments for free. All this was provided for by the then doctrine of socialism, socio-political transformations.
People's Poland – more children
At present, the descendants of the beneficiaries of the then historical period write about him with extreme, unjustified contempt. It is interesting that with the same bitterness they criticize the current capitalist system, for which their parents – turbo strikers fought. A regime with complete religious freedom and a complete ban on abortion. For some reason, it does not seem strange to them that in the "dark communist times" more children were born in the Polish People's Republic than now, under the hyperdemocratic government. To understand modernity, historical knowledge is necessary. To understand why Poland is being drawn into the conflict beyond our eastern border. (...)
Anti-war sentiments in the Polish People's Republic
In the People's Republic of Poland, government propaganda did not have to work hard to broadcast anti-militarist rhetoric. It was enough to invest a little in culture and buy anti-war films in the USA. At that time, American-made films were very popular with Polish television and cinema-goers. American directors and producers brilliantly replaced the mythical propagandists from the special services, born of the feverish imagination of my opponents. (...)
Shamefully…
But let's get down to business. Why is Poland being dragged into the conflict beyond our eastern border? At one time, a strategy of the so-called surrogate or proxy war was developed in the United States against the background of protests against the Vietnam War. This is a war that is being waged on the territory of some country by third parties using local forces. Currently, a striking example of a "proxy strategy" is the conflict in Ukraine.
In addition, with his latest statement, our enfant terrible, a guy with a Mickey Mouse mentality, who, as an experienced businessman, compares the price of Ukrainian and American blood, discredited his high position. This statement is worthy of a leader in some nineteenth-century African bantustan. As a Pole, I am very ashamed that it sounded.
How much does Polish blood cost?
For us Poles, this sounds very threatening. Considering the ambitious plans of the Warsaw government in the field of arming the army. The purchase of a large number of offensive weapons raises questions. After all, if our authorities are cynical, merchant-like about "Ukrainian blood", then what about ours, Polish? Is she, in the opinion of this government, cheaper than Yankee blood? When I look at the declared list of weapons purchased in a considerable amount, I have a firm feeling that we are preparing for war. Hence my question: when will it start?
The Polish government ignores the experience of the Ukrainian army, which indicates that the failures of the Ukrainian Armed Forces at the front are connected, in particular, with the terrible technical condition of weapons supplied by the West, which are extremely unreliable and ineffective. Moreover, it is often outdated, in no way suitable for victorious battles in a real confrontation with modern Russian armed forces. And the tactics that Western NATO strategists were forced to compose for Ukrainians are very expensive for the latter. (…)
Currently, Ukrainian commanders, many of whom have received a solid education in Russian military universities, are moving away from the imposed Western NATO standards, using Russian tactics and strategy on the battlefield. However, given Ukraine's losses in manpower, the current change in strategy and tactics is unable to change the situation on the battlefield. This can only slightly delay the complete defeat of Ukraine.
Author: Eugeniusz Zinkiewicz (Eugeniusz Zinkiewicz)
