The #election#committee reporting in. We are still counting your votes. It's 5:00 in the morning. 👀 You really did show up. I am so proud of my country today. ❤️🇵🇱 Thank you everyone! #Poland#Polish Now let's just wait for the final results...
The Poles are a capable and determined people
who suffered fascists dictatorships
by the Nazis and the Russians
today
to see #fascist fringes in #Polish politics
It's... disgusting and horrible
The idea that #Poland could once again
fall under the control of a fascist government is...
terrifying.
Campbell and Stewart, on their podcast this morning, talking about a pro-#Putin, anti-#Ukraine far right party in #Poland called something like Confederation, which they fear may make significant gains in next month's general election.
Can anyone point me to a good briefing on this party?
@tom_andraszek thank you. Do you know any good analysis articles about it?
Edited: This is the best analysis of the #Polish far-right Konfederacja party I've been able to find, still seeking other recommendations. The support among young people seems particularly worrying.
V Kyivindependent.com: ' #Poland to stop supplying #Ukraine with #weapons . #Polish PM Morawiecki announced that Poland will no longer supply Ukraine with weapons as rifts over the import of Ukrainian grain products deepens.
The crash of the plane carrying #Polish#Premier Władysław Sikorski immediately after take-off on 4 July 1943 has given rise to conspiracy theories blaming every imaginable foe: the Polish right (he was too pro-Soviet); the Soviets (he was too anti-communist), even Winston Churchill.
Immediately after the death of #Polish Premier & C-i-C Władysław Sikorski, the cabinet of the government-in-exile decided that, after the end of #WWII, his body would be transferred to the national shrine in the crypt of Wawel Castle in Kraków
As opponents of the communist regime, the exile government remained in Britain, as did SIkorski's remains. The reinterment in #Poland finally took place after the call of communism, in 1993.
mid-July 1943: funeral of #Polish Premier & C-in-C General Wladysław Sikorski
His remains have been lying in state at 18 Kensington Palace Gardens, HQ of the Polish government, since July 11.
This secret dispatch orders nearly 600 Polish troops from various units sent to London on 14 July for the funeral on the 15th.
The largest contingent is from the First Armoured Division, whose development Sikorski regarded as crucial to #Poland's participation in the invasion of the continent
Instructions for funeral of #Polish Premier & C-in-C General Wladysław Sikorski, killed in a plane crash off Gibraltar, 4 July 1943:
After arriving in London from Plymouth on the evening of the 11th, the body will be taken to Sikorski's headquarters at Kensington Palace Gardens, to lie in state. At 4 p.m. on July 14, it will be taken to Westminster Cathedral, where ceremonies will take place the following day. Thence it will go to Newark for burial
15 July 1943: Funeral service for #Polish Premier and General Władysław Sikorski (killed in a plane crash off Gibraltar while returning to Britain, 4 July) at Westminster Cathedral, London.
(NB this is the Westminster Cathedral--a Catholic church--not to be confused with Westminster Abbey)
Winston Churchill and Anthony Eden are among the British dignitaries in attendance.
15 July 1943: Funeral of #Polish Premier & C-in-C General Władysław Sikorski at Westminster Cathedral
Polish Ministry of National Defence film (Polish, with English captions):
set to start with the London ceremonies: lying in state; arrival of Polish troops for the honors; transfer of the coffin to the Cathedral; funeral services; departure of the coffin for burial. But if you scsroll back tot he start, it opens with the body leaving Gibraltar
It did not almost crash into the #EU's borderguard reconnaissance plane.
It engineered dangerous fly-bys on purpose, at one time coming as close as 5 meters to bring it, of course.
The #Polish crew momentarily lost control of the plane.
It was above international waters.
If you add to this the fact that a lot of these #Iranian drones #Russia uses to attack #Ukrainian cities are trafficked using the #BlackSea, it becomes clear to me..
...the #Swedish#AirForce S 100B #Argus airborne early warning and control (#AEW&C) #aircraft on September 22, 2022 and the Swedish HSwMS Visby (K31) Visby-class corvette and the #Polish PZL M28B #Bryza#reconnaissance#aircraft, taking on that area on that and the following days, discover that the public should not learn at this point?!?
I find it fascinating that the calque of the #Polish proverb "nie mój cyrk, nie moje małpy" (not my circus, not my monkeys) has become accepted parlance at least in Internet English.
I think at one point someone brought it up in a relevant AskReddit thread, and people just ran with it.