It would seem that after 1 word of Janusz Korwin-Mikke in the European Parliament, completed by the behaviour of his successor Dobromir Sosnier, the planet saw Polish politics from the worst side. Meanwhile, in 2024 we send another freak to Brussels – in the individual of Grzegorz Braun.
Many radicals and extremists held mandates in Europarlamenta. For example, the 95-year-old Jean-Marie Le Pen was a Euro MP from 1984 to 2019 erstwhile he retired politically. Benit Mussolini's granddaughter, Alessandra, a UFO believer, Mario Borghezio, and the open neo-Nazis, specified as Udo Voigt from the NPD or Yanis Lagos from the Golden Dawn, became the MP twice. The second was even granted immunity erstwhile he was sentenced to 13 years in Greece for moving an organized crime group.
This time we are dealing with a politician from Poland whose organization has been in contact with the alternate for Germany (AfD) for years. It is simply a group with much higher support from the Confederate, whose politicians effort to rehabilitate the 3rd Reich, support Russia and China, and with Braun they can besides agree on vaccination. During his electoral campaigns that brought him into the Polish parliament, he proclaimed that he was a supporter of the monarchist system: “Democracy is simply a façade strategy in which, in keeping with appearances, the populity actually governs mafias, services and lodges” – he said. He besides proclaimed that Central and east Europe is becoming a "German-Russian condominium under the trusty judaic board".
Grzegorz Braun and his people meet with Russian agents, specified as Leonid Swiridow, execute in Russian media, travel to Russia and Belarus, and have besides established close contacts with the pro-Kremlovian AfD politician, who, in addition, tries to build an global contact network for politicians with akin views.
From Holocaust negation to Polish Hamas
The issue that Braun should have long since been excluded from the debate, and the Confederacy should be punished for tolerating specified incidents, is his attitude towards the Holocaust, which may well correspond to German revisionists or mostly right-wing extremists in the West. Braun accused institutions commemorating the Holocaust of defaming Poland, in the same way motivated the attack on Prof. Jan Grabowski time lecture at the German Historical Institute in Warsaw, to which he ripped out the microphone and crashed on the desktop, and then challenged the manager of the institute. Rafał T. Mossakowski was with him. It is 1 of the founders of the Holy Pius Brotherhood in Poland and organises meetings on the subject of anti-Semitic and neo-fascist subjects under the name of the Powiśle Educational Center.
Mossakowski frequently accompanies Braun during the most scandalous actions. In 2014, he participated in his assault on PKW. He placed a photograph online with Adolf Hitler's image bottle and organized a public gathering whose peculiar guest claimed that Hitler strictly followed the rules of democracy and that “Poland was better for Hitler than Merkel”.
Sam Braun would love to, too. spoken The Holocaust. On the 1 hand, he accuses the authoritative institutions of bleaching Germany, on the another hand, on the basis of the death books in Auschwitz he considers a credible number of victims of the camp of 69 1000 people, not wanting to realize that the books were created from 1941 to 1943 and do not include the names of the victims intended to die in gas chambers. The chamber itself at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum Braun calls “ex-post decoration”, which was expected to be exposed to the planet by American writer David Cole, recording an interview with erstwhile museum manager Francis Piper. The information that the chamber and crematorium are reconstructed is actually public and is located on the plaques in the museum. The preaching that is mutually exclusive is simply a frequent phenomenon among history’s counterfeiters. Individual theories are utilized according to context and circumstances.
Equally crucial for the career of the fresh Euro MP is the demolition of Christmas trees and extinguishing of candles Chanukki in the Sejm. The video depicting Braun attacking the doctor present in the parliament, and then an insulting spiritual group, surrounded the full world. On the net you can find pictures of the Frog Pepe and Christ with a fire extinguisher. The first motif is the distinguishing sign of the American alt-right, the second is simply a form of sacralization of his behavior. As the war in Gaza was already ongoing at the same time, where the Israeli army commits crimes on civilians, the incidental was interpreted as another example of a protest against planet Zionism. The Polish MP was shown by Western and Arabic-speaking media, and Islamists began a prayer storm to make Allah their hero a Muslim. another activists of the Confederation of the Polish Crown, the Confederate Party, headed by Braun, were besides waiting for this occasion.
Jacek Kuwięca, a candidate of the Confederate for the Senate, announced that Menora had been re-inflamed in the Sejm and that the building on Braun was banned from entering that day: “A bomb will go off next day at 16:01 p.m. in the Chancellery of the Sejm. The Hanukkah Menora will blow up with the igniters. It will be a MEGA event. See you later! #PolishHamas". He besides tagged the biggest radio and tv editorials. Earlier, a failed senator posted anti-Semitic content online and bleached the 3rd Reich, claiming that the russian business and "two years of Covidian murder" were worse than the German occupation. 1 resident of Dobczyc, who fights the Kremlin propaganda and anti-Ukrainian hatred speech, wrote: “Do not be amazed if 1 morning after waking up you see a bloody horse’s head on the bed. More attractions for you can be little pleasant for you.”
German Ally
One of the louder scandals with Braun in the lead function was showing the youth around Alternatives to Germany After the Polish Sejm. Braun's organization claimed that its leader was bringing Poland's past closer to its guests. The problem is that AfD tries to underestimate the importance of Nazism, and many politicians of this formation even think that the Nazis were not criminals and there is no reason to deny them. AfD has peculiarly advanced support in Thuringia, where the leader of the structures is Björn Höcke. In the past he wrote articles praising Hitler, present he tries to defend himself against the courts from accusations of Nazism, but loses. Youth activists call themselves Höckejugend.
Steffen Kotré, a erstwhile economical and energy advisor for the AfD parliamentary group in the Parliament of Brandenburg, is besides crucial in this story. Kotré signed a letter in the past in defence of negative Horst Mahler and marched at the head of the march of neo-Nazis in Dresden on February 14, 2009 (she herself claims to have taken a image of herself). He later engaged in business, activities in the liberal FDP, and in 2013 joined the AfD. Representatives of the organization were guests of the Confederate on its election evening in 2019 in Warsaw, and since the beginning of 2020 members of the Confederation of the Polish Crown, including Grzegorz Braun, Włodzimierz Skalik and Krzysztof Tołwiński, began to travel to Germany. They then made contact with Kotré.
On August 29, 2020, Braun visited a protest by opponents of the Berlin pandemic sharpening. Tens of thousands of people gathered specified demonstrations in Germany, including anti-vaccinationists, neo-fascists and people wearing aluminium foil caps. Kotré calls vaccines "experiments on human genes", and the departure from coal to save the climate is considered insane. Following the outbreak of the war in Ukraine, he blamed the West for it and stated that the US wanted to destabilize Russia in this way. Even 1 of his organization colleagues, Norbert Kleinwächter, stated that his speech was "Putin's disgusting propaganda".
On 26 September 2022 Braun visited Berlin again and took part with Kotré in the conference entitled Saving Europe’s Future. They called for the abolition of sanctions against Russia, the abolition of wind and solar subsidies, and the elimination of ideologically-based taxation of fossil fuels. The gentlemen besides met in Bratislava in late May 2023, where they signed with Milan Mazurek and Milan Uhrik Manifest for Europe and against globalisation. Slovaks are erstwhile members of the People's organization "Our Slovakia", since 2021 in the ranks of the Republic, which officially cuts off from right-wing extremism. Both gentlemen are known for their anti-Roman rhetoric. Mazurek in his youth admitted that he did not believe in the Holocaust, and Uhrik in 2017 that he could not commend him or condemn him due to the fact that he is not a historian. Slovak right-wing extremists are besides set, according to their political traditions, very pro-Russian.
Comrades
The past of AfD contacts with Poles is very interesting. For example, Manuel Ochsenreiter, assistant to Markus Frohnmaier, the current president of the AfD in Baden-Württemberg, was accused by Falangi's leader in Krakow, that he had commissioned him and his 2 colleagues to set fire to the office of the Hungarian Culture Society in Uzhhorad, which occurred on February 4, 2018.
The Confederacy's environment may seem little extremist than Falanga's, but Krzysztof Tołwiński was among the politicians gathering with Kotré. This erstwhile PiS MP, who went to Belarus in 2022, recorded a conversation with Arwid Swimmingczewski, who claimed that respective twelve Poles participated in the war on the side of Russia. Swimmer is an ex-police officer, fired from work for beating up a detainee. erstwhile he spoke these words, he belonged to the Organization of the Second Circle. The recording was, on the another hand, a disinformation action aimed at showing the “other fact about war”. The Secondary ellipse is an interesting environment. His most active associate was Artur Ć., who broke distant from the Nationalist Association “Zapuga”. In 2016 he organized a neofascist performance in Warsaw, to which the Russian band Rusky Styag and the deputy commander of the Rusich Diversian-Sturm Group – Jan Petrovski came. In September 2018, he was convicted of illegal possession of ammunition together with the chimney sweeper Wojciech K., who was accused of preparing an assassination effort on the most crucial people in the country.
The leader of the Second ellipse was besides described in a alternatively interesting way by Piotr S. from Wielkopolska, a erstwhile associate of Falanga: “He urged that in his organization men are needed to fight immigrants. He invited me to go to Bieszczady. But erstwhile I saw him pull out a knife in a white restaurant and want to cut people there, I ran distant from the place and left them alone.”
Whom Steffen Kotré invites to Germany should possibly be curious in German media, service and management of AfD. However, given that the Ochsenreiter case was not a problem for the party, it seems improbable that Braun, Skalik and Tołwiński would be the problem.
The thief most loudly shouts “catch the thief”
The question remains why German right-wing radicals are curious in political contacts in Poland. surely Braun's statements and positions on Jews and the Holocaust are valuable from their point of view, but his another views seem to be more important. For example, "state intervention should always be kept to a minimum". Or, “The presence of the state only in areas specified as military, police, courts and central fiscal apparatus”, and “Let everything else be dependent on the designation of municipal and regional authorities – and the fantasies of entrepreneurial Poles”. This systemic component promoted by Braun distances him from the fascism that he has been accused of in the past, but it brings him closer to Catholic integrators who fight all progressive trends and advocate cultural conservatism and the free market.
Braun and his organization argue the European Union, but in their programme they do not request to leave it. The programme says: "As a consequence of the increasing in fresh months and years of disappointment of the increasing part of Polish society, our membership in the EU and the place and function assigned to the Polish State in NATO structures, the Confederation of the Polish Crown notes the request for a serious debate on the benefits and losses of Poland's participation in both organisations". According to all opinion studies, the vast majority of Poles want to stay in the Union and in NATO. There are voices critical of many actions of EU bodies both in Poland and in the West. This is simply a average part of the political debate, but the anti-unionist proposals are limiting their function to a minimum, which is expected to give all country more freedom. The problem is that not so much freedom as voluntaries would have received larger countries in Europe as well as Germany and France.
Braun's allies of AfD believe, not without reason, that Germany is suffering losses due to the sanctions imposed on Russia, and that is why they want to abolish them, regardless of the political consequences for Europe. They besides want to support German business, which, thanks to ideas specified as limiting the state's presence in the army, police, courts and central fiscal apparatus, in Poland would be given the possible of cutting out smaller Polish businessmen and thus colonizing the Polish economy. German business has not only more capital but besides experience.
Paradoxically, it is most likely the hypothetical governments of the Confederation in Poland and the AfD in Germany that would make Poland a German-Russian condominium under the Confederate Trust Board, where the Polish economy would fall into the hands of German entrepreneurs and, to any extent, Russian lobbying. Therefore, 1 should look more seriously not only at Grzegorz Braun, but at all radical, prokremlian German rightist in Poland. Spectacular actions with extinguishing of menora and ostentatious Holocaust mockery distract the dangerous character of the Confederacy, which despite so many excesses inactive keeps Braun in its ranks.
