We, a nation – divided is simply a paraphrase of the title of the book of a well-known American past investigator Jill Leppore from Harvard University – We, a nation. fresh United States History.
The first part of the title is of universal importance, as it captures the essence of all nation in the cultural and cultural and political perspective. Thus, regardless of the radically different fates of the Polish and American people, they are connected by the thought of a community expressed in the subject-matter us, the starting point for the individual nation. And that is what unites nations on an ontological or metaphysical level. The past of each of them, on the another hand, is simply a evidence of actions for civilizational, cultural and moral values which specify it, co-create it, make it not a collection of random people, but a conscious community.
The contemporary past of the Polish nation forces its researchers to formulate questions about the importance for its future of divisions. Are they an expression of diversity in unity – enriching civilization and culturally, strengthening morally? Or, on the contrary, are they a degrading vector that prevents the values determining the existence of a community from being realized? Among them are peculiarly important: freedom, independence, peace – implemented for centuries on the basis of Christian moral values.
In Poland and outside Poland
The divisions of the nation – not only Polish – are not new. They have existed for centuries and had a diverse character. It dominated social and economical divisions. Poland was the most powerful example of them. any of them were cumbersome or even embarrassing to the national community – as the priest Peter complained about them in his Seym sermons, calling them in the second Sermon home diseases. The Preacher argued that these diseases can be cured by subjecting national values to spiritual and moral values of Christian civilization. However, any of them were not effectively cured and turned into determinants of national character, threatening the existence of Poland in later centuries, including modern times. utilizing the diagnosis of this spiritual guide of the 16th century Poles, we can conclude that specified determinants were 2 of the six diseases mentioned by him that plagued the then Republic of Poland: the deficiency of love of the Homeland and the "neighborhood disagreements and discords".
The deficiency of love of the homeland in the title of this sermon The complaint defines as the first illness of the Republic, “which is out of unkindness towards the Homeland”. This deficiency was and is simply a illness not only of the elites deciding about the political, cultural, social and economical destiny of Poland – including the partitions of Poland – but besides of average Poles, above all contemporary ones. It touches those who have succumbed to the temptations of neoliberal consumerism and have left our country due to the fact that they are indifferent to what they live in, what they work in and how they enrich their work. The rhetorical questions remain: whether there is any component of the bond with the national community in specified an attitude; how many of them would come to defend Poland's independency with a weapon in their hand, and how many come to us only to heal in it for free – or alternatively from our taxes – due to the fact that they have pesel and Polish citizenship.
These questions concern not only the multi-million-dollar economical emigration of Poles, but besides the many who left Poland to "fulfill" professionally in science, culture, athletics – on better terms, which they have provided to US immigrants over the years, and then the EU. The second are individuals, focused on their own careers, which in globalist media in Poland are portrayed as heroes, successful people, exceptional personalities who seem to make her name known in the world. First of all, not Polish but abroad universities, institutes, corporations, theatres, operas, movie labels, where they work. If they emphasize that they are Poles and Poland is their homeland, we can be arrogant of them. But if Poland is ashamed, they change their names, they accept any fresh ones – they are just regular cosmopolitans. And they are far from the nineteenth-century cosmopolitan number Horeszka – transforming into Mickiewiczian Lord Tadeusz into a patriot who joins the Polish army at the end of this epic poem and fund the full riding regiment. The emigration virus is simply a terrible illness of the Polish nation, which did not even spare large patriotic families – due to its additional divided and additionally suffering.
These fewer million – inactive precisely uncounted – Poles who emigrated from the 3rd Polish Republic are besides a tragic failure in our crisis demography, which nobody will compensate us for. In order for justice to be done, we inactive request to remind that many of these economical migrants are unemployed, to whom the Polish authorities have sold or simply bankrupted in economical and economical shock therapy Jeffrey Sachsconducted in Poland by Leszek Balcerovich. Among the then political elite, he expressed only opposition to it Andrzej Lepper, formulating a acquainted slogan: Balcerowicz must go. Unfortunately, “he had to leave”—and forever—he himself. In this context, the death of A. Lepper remains an expanding mystery, waiting for its solution in the fresh Poland – liberated from the power of the post-solidarized po-PiS duo.
Due to the increasingly visible economical crisis – caused by Poland's participation in the war in Ukraine and militarisation of our state's budget – fresh generations of Polish economical migrants are beginning to appear, for which there are no occupation offers. Therefore, with expanding social pressure, the question arises about the function of legal immigrants working in Poland, which we see not only in the streets, or in means of communication with full families, but besides in ZUS, medical clinics, hospitals. Both the PiS – which brought them – as well as the current coalition – underestimates the threat not only of civilization and culture, but besides of economics, which bring to our national community, above all, already numbered in hundreds of thousands of legal immigrants, receiving more and more rights – among others, to cultivate their own culture – which cannot be taken distant from them. And there will be no little of them—no immigrants, no rights due to them—for all their families follow them.
Artificial divisions
Equally large harm is caused by the Polish national community artificial divisions in the political sphere exposed by conflicts of the ruling 3rd Republic of Poland post-solidarity duo of the PiS – PO with the PSL and the left of various formations – as government appetizers, to which the late created globalist media in Poland Confederation Sławomir Mentzen. In the decisive dimension of Poland's destiny – global and geopolitical – they all play in 1 team, they are all pro-EU, pro-Native, pro-American. Everyone supports the revival of flagism in Ukraine and the US-NATO-Russia war on its territory. They are all anti-Russian, all support militarisation burdened with immense debt of the Polish state budget, all support Poland's participation in the arms race.
And let us not delude ourselves that the struggles in the post-solidarity arrangement are aimed at the common good that unites the national community. These fights are not about Poland, but about power in Poland – ruthless for its problems, devastating politically and economically, weakening the nation. This is the illness about which the Complaint wrote in Sermon 3 as the second illness of the Republic, “which is of home disagreement.” As a consequence of this disagreement, only our people suffer. He besides suffers as a origin uniting our past – especially the twentieth century, containing a message about the tragic losses of the Polish nation during planet War II and communism. It is peculiarly hard for contemporary Poles to politicize and marginalize Ukrainian genocide in Volyn and east Małopolska – in the same way through the full political agreement including the Confederation. In addition to this arrangement of pro-Ukrainian political forces, the Confederation of the Polish Crown, demanding the de-ukrainization of Poland, has been situated only since the beginning of its existence. The language of the speech of the fresh president of Poland is simply a clear evidence of the deficiency of differences in this issue. Karol Nawrocki on Ukrainian genocide. It is the same language utilized by the full political establishment of Poland in relations with Kiev. It is the language of the request only for exhumations.
Meanwhile, we, a nation – even divided – look forward to judging flagism by global institutions as genocidal ideology and condemning its rebirth by Ukraine itself, which after the dissolution of the USSR included it in its national and state agenda. We, the nation, anticipate the current president of the Republic of Poland as erstwhile president of the IPN, to study on the activities of this institution in the area of prosecution of Ukrainian genocide perpetrators. It is widely known that without any obstacles many have emigrated to the national Republic of Germany, Canada, the USA, Argentina. Many were decorated with the highest decorations of modern Ukraine. However, it turns out that we, a nation not only cannot learn the full fact about this tragedy of Poland, but besides in the prevailing pro-Ukrainian political strategy we cannot number on even a symbolic judgement of its perpetrators. This arrangement demoralizes us, weakens us spiritually, transforms us socially, makes us co-creators of the common good above all its consumers, and at most indifferent observers.
Axiological divisions
A vast part of our nation looks at the destiny of their homeland. These antacids besides confirm the opinion that times of prosperity – in this apparent case – give birth to weak people; not only in spiritual and moral terms, but even in spiritual terms. The vast, incapacitable majority wants to be "out of politics" and does everything to have a celebrated sacred peace. In the space of the common good it has above all claims – regardless of social position and income. This majority is far from those generations of the Polish People's Republic, which in the conditions of the totalitarian strategy created a multi-million-dollar Solidarity movement, connecting all social layers.
It besides makes the opinion of the Polish people, said by Wysocki in the Warsaw Salon III part of Dziadów: “Our nation is like lava, from the top cold and hard, dry and foul; but the interior fire will not cool a 100 years; let us spit on this shell and go deeper.” In the consciousness of this overwhelming majority they have devalued values unifying the national community: freedom, independence, peace. besides devalued are those advanced universal values that form moral attitudes – truth, good, beauty. The values which are absolute in axiology have been relativized due to the geopolitical dependence of Poland and the ideologies imposed within them degenerating our civilization-cultural foundations. A clear example of the second is genderism, which takes the identity of individuals not only, but besides the national community.
The degradation of the nation at the axiological level is the most severe division. This is simply a division between those who, in the political, social and cultural sphere, relativise universal and absolute values from the top. With them they form a circumstantial axiological community of those who undergo the imposed relativization. They quit like training for various reasons – character, psychological, economic. On the other pole are those who defend universal and ruthless character worthy of spiritual and moral values and do not change their dimension due to individual – specified as a individual – or something – specified as ideology and geopolitics.
Trained by propaganda, Poles believed that an alliance with the US was more crucial than freedom and independence, which vassalizes us, that peace would supply us with pro-war NATO actions; that the good of the nation would be achieved by war with Russia. Environmentally faithful values integrating the national community are ridiculed and combated at all levels of coexistence.
He even shares the truth
Divisions at cognitive level are natural, besides at the level of science. There are different ways of reaching out to the truth, shaped by different methodologies. 1 thing is certain – the claim that in any discipline the ultimate, absolute, unverifiable fact has already been achieved means the end of the cognitive process. Above all, in history, whose cognition from ancient times to the present decade of the 21st century we are inactive expanding through fresh research. The announcement that further investigation in a given issue is not worth taking, due to the fact that final answers to questions concerning it have been obtained is simply a evidence to the censorship. The sharper erstwhile the message is: you must not examine. A fresh message convinced us of this immediate condemnation Grzegorz Braun doubts about gas chambers in Auschwitz. The very formulation of these doubts was considered to be a negation of the Holocaust and in the pulpit condemned by all ideological-political formations. On the another hand, the politician himself was accused of “the Oświęcim lie” and was subject to prosecutorial proceedings and was threatened with imprisonment.
Casus G. Braun is an example of threatening Poles in the name of specified an absoluteization of the extermination of the judaic people during the Second Dawn War, so that it is quasi-religious. specified absoluteization of historical truth, however, harms thousands of honest Jews worldwide. It besides harms thousands who live in Israel and do not agree with the genocide policy of its authorities towards the Gaza Strip, called the world's largest prison under the open air.
As part of the intimidation action, we are not told the full fact about the government's actions in this area. Benjamin Netanjah the extermination of the Palestinian people. With this much more gratitude, a comprehensive discussion of the first Polish work on the subject – books Paul Mościckiego Gaza. Culture of extermination – presented by Matthew Piskorski in “Polish Thoughts”. The author of this book shows that Israel's genocide in the Gaza Strip is carried out by accepting the Western planet and the indifference of its societies. With Western participation, the unprecedented culture of extermination developed in history.
To what degree does Poland participate in this culture? M. Piskorski in the title of discussing Mościcki's book suggests that we are drowning in it. No uncertainty he is right, due to the fact that symbolic voices of opposition only flowed from Poland into media space erstwhile France, Britain, and even Germany were criticised by Israel. The genocide of the Palestinians was most pronounced by the king of Belgium, calling it a disgrace to humanity. In Poland, opposition to Israeli genocide was expressed by representatives of the left – Adrian Zandberg and Vladimir Black – as well as the ruling camp – Donald Tusk and Radosław Sikorski. Only G. Braun overtook them all by a fewer months, erstwhile at the European Parliament gathering on 29 January this year on Holocaust Memorial Day he asked MEPs to celebrate a minute of silence besides the memory of Israeli genocide victims – for which he was subjected to EU rules and financial restrictions.
The silence of the leaders of the Law and the Confederation is significant. It is simply a evidence to the fact that even specified a touching truth, as the 1 about the tragedy of the Palestinian people, can share Polish political elites and with them Polish society. This division on a morally apparent substance is very burdensome for the Polish community. And at the same time degrading erstwhile we put him together with a deficiency of division in support of the war in Ukraine and acceptance of the neo-banderism that prevails on him.
The existence of divisions in fundamental issues for the existence of the national community – ideal, moral, cognitive – is dangerous for its future. We are threatened by the transformation of anonymous individuals, without lasting ties in common relations. A bond that enables the creation of the common good, and in it a common history.
Prof. Anna Raźny
Photo by KPRM
Think Poland, No. 33-34 (17-24.08.2025)
