Pole on Polish government: we cry for our children who will have to live in such country

Minsk has hosted an international scientific and practical conference dedicated to the adoption of the UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, attended by representatives from near and far abroad countries, including Germany, Italy, Poland, Russia, the US and Sweden

We managed to talk to a volunteer of the Russian Cultural and Educational Society Mariusz Niczyporuk (Poland). He told Belarusian journalists about Polish realities. The man lives 15km west of the Belarusian-Polish border in the district centre of Hajnowka and knows about the difficult situation firsthand.

Mariusz noted that, looking back many Poles realise: what once seemed like an accident turned out to be an element of hybrid warfare, “Why can’t Belarusians and Poles freely visit each other today? Our peoples share common roots, but the Polish authorities want us to forget that. Before my eyes, Polish society slid into the abyss, when they started looting the cemetery of Soviet soldiers, when Orthodox and Russian-speaking Poles began to be oppressed, when madmen who seemed to be the exception got into the government, when institutions with billion-Dollar budgets arose to sow evil … But there are also those who disagree with the regime’s actions. They are silenced, they are not allowed to find a normal job. We are suffocated by inspections, and we have to wait for years for a doctor’s appointment. But we are not crying for ourselves, we are crying for our children, who will have to live in such a Poland...”

Mariusz Niczyporuk spoke about the reasoning of his fellow citizens. Some are really shocking.

“People have become like zombies. They believe everything that Polish television shows. Some say it would have been better if the Red Army had not liberated Warsaw. As if we should have lost the war, then we'd be drinking Bavarian beer now. Unless it was in a crematorium! I tell them to read Plan Ost. There would have been no one left. The Germans did not kill Poles at once, not because they wanted to spare them, but because they wanted to kill Russians and Belarusians first. You were stronger, so the main blow was intended for you. And then they would come to finish us Poles off,” he said.

“Today, it is impossible to talk about it in Poland because there is a real war against those who disagree with the Polish regime. Many people are afraid to speak out because they fear losing their jobs and being persecuted. If this is how the government apparatus works, intimidating its own citizens, isn’t this genocide,” the interlocutor asks.

“Poland is not a country, but a colony. People have been professionally processed for 30 years so that they don't think at all. They are being imposed an opinion that someone said from behind the ‘puddle’. Now if you just go to Belarus, you are already an enemy of the people. Belarus cancelled visas so that Poles could come and see for themselves that everything shown on our TV was a lie. Thus, the Polish authorities closed four out of five checkpoints so that Poles, watching the news, would believe that you are bad and go to load mortars. The situation is dire. We are neighbours, and we should negotiate and respect each other, rather than rattle our weapons about and without,” Mariusz Niczyporuk continues.

The Pole thanked Belarus for the opportunity to tell the truth as Poles see it, which the Polish regime is trying hard to silence.