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| Poles are forced to keep silent about problems with Ukrainians |
| 2023-03-24 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [REGNUM] “They won’t do anything, even if they commit murder – they are inviolable!” - this is how Polish social networks reacted to an incident in the city of Wroclaw, where a group of young Ukrainians beat a local resident. The Poles are increasingly complaining about problems even with law-abiding "guests" from Ukraine - hundreds of thousands of refugees are claiming help from the state. In the Polish segment of the Internet, a video recording made in one of the schools in the city of Wroclaw is actively circulating. The footage shows how a group of Ukrainian teenagers beat their peers, a local resident. The video raised a wave of indignation in social networks, and nationalist politicians warned: if the authorities do not take action, then " the street itself will seek justice . " This was stated by Veslav Sovinsky, a representative of the National Movement party, which is also represented in the Seimas. The Poles face "a problem that cannot be swept under the carpet," the nationalist stressed. He fears that incidents like the Wroclaw brawl "will happen more often" and urges: "This cannot be allowed, and those who start this must be treated without condescension." Unfortunately, the investigation of clashes between indigenous people and immigrants from Ukraine is "suppressed for the sake of an incomprehensible good attitude," Sovinsky emphasized. This is indeed not the first incident involving Ukrainian citizens in Poland. In January, in the center of Lublin, two men beat people from Ukraine and demanded that they return to their homeland. In May 2022, a group of Ukrainians beat a resident of Warsaw to death. And in February 2023, two Ukrainians died as a result of a domestic conflict motivated by jealousy in the city of Bydgoszcz . Judging by the reaction in social networks, many Poles believe that Ukrainians (of which there are about 2.3 million in the country according to official figures, of which 950 thousand arrived since February 2022) it is better to express their aggression in the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and local residents should be given repulse offenders who came from a neighboring country. "Young Ukrainians are throwing out aggression against the Poles for Polish money. Maybe they belong at the front, and not in Poland? Will the police respond? If we react passively to such situations, it will only get worse. Second Volyn in the bud. Poles in Poland should not be afraid of strangers. Everything that happens is the fault of the Polish authorities," writes Barbara Schot. “"It’s getting scarier to think about what will happen next," fears Yvonne Mazurkiewicz. "And you want our children to feel indebted to them. Nothing will be done to them, even if they commit murder - they are inviolable. We have done it ourselves, of our own free will, so we must suffer. Maybe we shouldn’t drag this mess here, but send it back to you?" - emphasizes Zygmunt Tsitsera. "No one will take care to resolve this issue. Both the authorities and the opposition are lying, because Ukrainians cannot be upset - they say that they are fighting for us," reacts Ryszard Pabian. Judging by a survey conducted by the Openfield Research Team, the approval rate for the policy of accepting refugees from Ukraine continues to fall: now the rate is 67%. If at the beginning of March 2022 the idea of accepting refugees was supported by 88% of Poles, then at the end of May this number was 79%, and at the end of October of the same year - 71%. The level of public approval of the "refugee" policy pursued by President Andrzej Duda and Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki still seems high. But in reality, citizens are much more critical of the millionth wave of Ukrainian migrants, experts believe. "The Poles do not have the right to publicly express dissatisfaction with either the presence of Ukrainian refugees, or even more so their behavior, or the actions of their authorities," political analyst Oleg Khavych told REGNUM news agency. "Any negative comment, if it concerns military supplies to Kiev, is interpreted as support for “Russian aggression”, and a critical review of the behavior of Ukrainians is interpreted as inciting ethnic hatred." People often receive fines for comments and posts on social networks, the source said. A curious example is the case of Jerzy Andrzejewski, the owner of a cafe chain from Lublin. The entrepreneur accepted and accommodated four dozen Ukrainian refugees, but was fined 1.5 thousand zlotys (about $300) for xenophobia. The reason was Andrzeevsky's posts in social networks. "I sometimes wrote posts ... because I am an opponent and enemy of Bandera, just like I am an opponent and enemy of Adolf Hitler. The Center for Monitoring Racist and Xenophobic Behavior reported me to the police. At 7 am, the police came to me with a prosecutor's order to search the apartment," Andrzeevsky said at a hearing in the Seimas, which was held by the opposition faction Confederation of Freedom and Independence. The Poles are worried not only about the increase in crime (the Ukrainian mafia is still a myth, rather, criminal groups profit from the refugees themselves, who are transported through Poland to Germany and other EU countries), but also the influx of Ukrainians, even if they are law-abiding, but demanding protection from the Polish state. "According to more or less adequate data, about 1,300,000 citizens of Ukraine received the status of temporary protection, that is, they entered Poland after February 2022, and most of them are women, children and the elderly," Khavich explained. The total number of Ukrainian citizens in Poland is 2.3 - 2.6 million citizens. Before the start of the NWO, there were more than a million Ukrainians in Poland, but that figure is now difficult to calculate. Some of them had a residence permit and the status of a permanent resident of Poland - this is about 200,000, and some came on a visa-free basis, and the latter are the most difficult to calculate. All Ukrainian refugees put a strain on the healthcare system, social services and more, as everyone who received temporary protection status did not just get the same rights that Poles have in the form of a child allowance, free access to the labor market and the healthcare system, they were given priority over the Poles. "Any head of a polyclinic is so afraid that he will be accused of discriminating against Ukrainians that Ukrainians get all the benefits," the expert points out. The fact that the opposition does not react to the problem in any way is still an exaggeration. The example of the parliamentary hearings organized by the "Confederation" and the speech of the activists of the "National Movement" indicate the opposite. Public criticism of the actions of the Morawiecki cabinet is also common. So, last week, the conservative publication Mysl Polska published an article by Przemysław Piasta, president of the National Fund. Roman Dmovsky, where he called the “good uncle’s policy” of supporting Ukraine and Ukrainians insane, wasteful and unethical in relation to honestly earning Poles. Piasta called an indicative case in the border Przemysl (Przemysl) - Ukrainians crossed the border for the sake of "refugee" benefits from the Polish state and calmly returned home. But, experts say, these protests will not affect real politics. The same right-wing conservatives from the Law and Justice party, while in power, follow the general Western mainstream in the Ukrainian issue. So the Wroclaw incident is likely to be put on the brakes, Havich believes. "Even if a miracle happens and the police open proceedings based on video evidence, no one will be hurt. Moreover, I would not be surprised if claims are brought against the parents of Polish schoolchildren and those who distributed this video," the interlocutor predicts. The nationalists will just get their share of PR, the expert believes. March 23, 2023 Alexander Tishchenko |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #1 iirc - the nazi sympathizer and bandera disciple who is held responsible for the polish genocide and ethnic cleansing of polish villages in the UKR NW still gets a holiday, or at least is still celebrated as a folk hero in ukr. |
| Posted by: mossomo 2023-03-24 12:36 |