euractiv.com/section/central-europe/news/far-right-protest-overshadows-auschwitz-camp-liberation-commemoration
It is the first time that nationalists stage a protest on the day when the anniversary of the death camp liberation is celebrated. Also, it was the International Holocaust Victims Remembrance Day.
My purely private commentary:
Now, imagine that some patriotic Poles come to Katyn Massacre cemetery in Russia to honour executed Polish officers and some fiercely nationalist Russians come, too, and hold a protest demonstration. Everybody knows that Polish Russian relations are tense, so such a situation is quite probable. I can imagine what international scandal would break out - Polish and world media would go virtually mad, accusing all Russians of rabid Polonophobia, lack of any morals, ignorance of basic values and sensitivity, etc etc.
That is why I consider that yesterday`s Polish radical nationalist protest in Auschwitz Birkenau as utterly stupid.
I can understand their motifs. Yes, the Polish contribution and suffering during WW2 has been forgotten and neglected for decades - first, during communist times, and later too. When asked about a rising in Warsaw during the war, most people in the world point to Warsaw Ghetto Rising 1943, instead of much more important Warsaw Rising 1944.
But it is not the fault of Jews that their Ghetto Rising and general suffering is better remembered and popularised in the world. It is the fault of Poles who can`t propagate their cause well enough - either they don`t do it at all or they do it ineffectively.
Trying to make people in the world aware of the Polish cause during the WW2 can`t be done by means of such dirty methods as protests on a special day when we should commemorate the death of a nation. 90% Polish Jews were exterminated so we can say that the whole nation was doomed to perish.
Dear nationalist Poles, get down to work and start making the world aware of important facts through positive information campaigns. Such events as yesterday don`t help, quite the opposite, they tarnish the image of all Poles which is unfair because most of us aren`t radical nationalists - in national elections, far right parties get 1% votes, no more.
Instead of spitting into somebody`s face and demanding the world to accept it as a method of solving problems, do sth positive instead. Propagate the Polish cause in wiser and more appropriate, culturally acceptable ways.
You should eventually understand that doing what you have done actually makes you similar/close to German perpetrators, and that`s certainly not what you are intent on.
PS. The article didn`t mention the words of the main organiser: It is time to fight against Jewry.
It is the first time that nationalists stage a protest on the day when the anniversary of the death camp liberation is celebrated. Also, it was the International Holocaust Victims Remembrance Day.
My purely private commentary:
Now, imagine that some patriotic Poles come to Katyn Massacre cemetery in Russia to honour executed Polish officers and some fiercely nationalist Russians come, too, and hold a protest demonstration. Everybody knows that Polish Russian relations are tense, so such a situation is quite probable. I can imagine what international scandal would break out - Polish and world media would go virtually mad, accusing all Russians of rabid Polonophobia, lack of any morals, ignorance of basic values and sensitivity, etc etc.
That is why I consider that yesterday`s Polish radical nationalist protest in Auschwitz Birkenau as utterly stupid.
I can understand their motifs. Yes, the Polish contribution and suffering during WW2 has been forgotten and neglected for decades - first, during communist times, and later too. When asked about a rising in Warsaw during the war, most people in the world point to Warsaw Ghetto Rising 1943, instead of much more important Warsaw Rising 1944.
But it is not the fault of Jews that their Ghetto Rising and general suffering is better remembered and popularised in the world. It is the fault of Poles who can`t propagate their cause well enough - either they don`t do it at all or they do it ineffectively.
Trying to make people in the world aware of the Polish cause during the WW2 can`t be done by means of such dirty methods as protests on a special day when we should commemorate the death of a nation. 90% Polish Jews were exterminated so we can say that the whole nation was doomed to perish.
Dear nationalist Poles, get down to work and start making the world aware of important facts through positive information campaigns. Such events as yesterday don`t help, quite the opposite, they tarnish the image of all Poles which is unfair because most of us aren`t radical nationalists - in national elections, far right parties get 1% votes, no more.
Instead of spitting into somebody`s face and demanding the world to accept it as a method of solving problems, do sth positive instead. Propagate the Polish cause in wiser and more appropriate, culturally acceptable ways.
You should eventually understand that doing what you have done actually makes you similar/close to German perpetrators, and that`s certainly not what you are intent on.
PS. The article didn`t mention the words of the main organiser: It is time to fight against Jewry.