Protesters prevented the Russian ambassador from laying a wreath on Victory Day in Warsaw - again. Last year was rougher, but Sergej Andreyev endured it. The current one didn't bother him anymore, he got used to the irredeemable fools of the West.
On Tuesday, demonstrators in the Polish capital prevented the Russian ambassador from laying a wreath at the Red Army monument in Warsaw on the occasion of Victory Day, MTI reported.
In the morning, Sergej Andreyev arrived accompanied by bodyguards at the Warsaw mausoleum of Soviet soldiers who died during the Second World War, where a group of activists from the Euromaidan organization and Ukrainian refugees were waiting for him.
Earlier, the protesters planted hundreds of Ukrainian flags in the ground at the entrance to the cemetery and also placed crosses with the names of the victims of the ongoing war in Ukraine. They also placed reminders that recalled the sites of carnage in Ukraine, including Bucha near Kiev.
The locations of other carnage in Ukraine - for example in Donbass or Odessa or Mariupol - were not cited by anyone, obviously it does not matter who kills Ukrainian citizens, Ukrainians or Russians, nor what language the murdered Ukrainian citizens spoke. But that's just me adding it.
The area around the cemetery was secured by the police, no violent action took place. This time.
Last year was rougher, much rougher. This is how I wrote about it then, and I wouldn't do it any differently today:
"Artificial blood is spilling in Warsaw, it runs down Sergey Andreyev's face, it gets to the crew, and to the wife, the mob rages while he proclaims on a sign: all Russians are guilty. According to them, the Russian ambassador has no right to bring flowers to the military cemetery, he has no right to commemorate the victims of the Second World War. The country that gave the world Karol Józef Wojtyła is today assisting in the public humiliation of a Russian diplomat, and the law enforcement agencies of our friends - willy-nilly, whatever - did not prevent the humiliation. I wonder what the Holy Pope would say to this?
The Hungarian press reported as negative news that the Russian ambassador in Warsaw was attacked during the wreath-laying ceremony planned for Victory Day in the Soviet military cemetery in Warsaw. Moscow protests. That's it. That's it?
I think I understand the neuralgic relationship of our Polish friends with Russia. I think I can understand their feelings, and even sympathize with them. Unfortunately, however, it is precisely the compassion and sympathy that is inflated at the sight of the degraded horde.
Of course, what can we expect from the mobs, what can we expect from the die-cast revolutionaries, who chose the show bakery instead of the real front, for 15 minutes of fame, and who, after their perceived heroism, crawled back to their dens with a satisfied handshake until the next performance?They think they have won, now they have shown the Russians well, by taking out all their frustration on him, they can glorify themselves with a false halo on their heads; for publicly humiliating another person. Because Sergey Andrejev, the hated ambassador, who said that "Poland's policy led to the disaster in September 1939", was humiliated, insulted and shamed.
However, Sergey Andreyev's shame is far from his 15 minutes of fame, his discipline even generates some sympathy, but the shame of the mob burns on his master. Without the highly respected European mob noticing this, because the highly respected European mob is capable of nothing but the hysterical subversion so fashionable these days; he only understood destruction, deconstruction.Therefore, the highly respected European mob has forever lost what we call human dignity, and moreover, it does not even know the first law of the pit, although it would not be useless in wartime: if you have reached the bottom, do not dig any further!
But who make up this horde? Ukrainians? Poles? Or political activists of an NGO? Does it even matter? Does it matter if a Ukrainian journalist, Iryna Zemliana, admits that she took part in the atrocity, and is actually proud of it? Not really. Because he was not alone. And the Polish law enforcement agencies did not ensure the commemoration of the diplomat, despite the fact that, based on the reports of the security services, the Russian embassy itself limited the event to a minimum, greatly shortening the original schedule.
However, reading the comments of Polish journalists and other public figures, we are faced with the stark reality, that the problem is even bigger than we thought. If it can be increased at all. Let's say the peculiarity of the problem is that when we think it can't get any worse, it keeps turning out that it can. The opinion of the Poles is true, they are divided regarding the incident, but in the depths of the visceral reactions, the same thing lies in all cases: Sergey Andreyev, the Russian ambassador, is a provocateur, and because he provoked with the commemoration (!), he deserved to be painted with red paint. They don't even mention the other humiliated ones. While one camp celebrates the self-serving humiliation of the diplomat without frills, the other camp condemns it simply because they fear the consequences, the Kremlin's retaliation, which their own diplomats may have to suffer.
And no one, not a single opinion leader in Catholic Poland, utters the simple teaching of Luke's Gospel, which asks you to "treat others as you would have them treat you!"Even if I set aside the cultural minimum that a diplomat of a wartime enemy is also entitled to protection - not that Poland is at war - I still can't get out of my head the uncomfortable thought that no one, really no one, has a moral need to do not humiliate others because of yourself? Because I'm not like that.
Because I don't think and say something about a country torn apart in the Second World War that you can control its fate. I will not lower myself to the level of Sergey Andreyev, and I will not sink below it at all.
So, whoever carried out the attack, their action can only be described with one adjective: counterproductive. It's no coincidence that our sympathy for the Ukrainian leadership has swelled up a lot, they worked for it, including their ambassador in Budapest. Yet we didn't pour artificial blood on his picture, we didn't insult him publicly. And our Polish brothers and sisters should not have taken this path either, because this path leads only and exclusively to moral destruction. Although they would turn back.”