The Contested Symbolism of the “Cursed Soldiers”: Hegemony, Memory, and the Politics of Fear in Poland, by Krzysztof Jaskulowski and Piotr Majewski. 2024. HISTORY & MEMORY 36(1)111-139
Belittling the Daring Zolnierze Wykleci By the Use of Various Trivialities
This is not just another hatchet job on the Polish freedom fighters. It also takes potshots against PiS and against various Polish patriotic organizations. For example, the authors bring up the Round Table Agreements (1989), and scoff at the idea that the Communists made secret deals to maintain many of their privileges. (p. 119). As occurs throughout this paper, they provide no evidence in support of their positions. I would love to see Jaskulowski and Majewski provide 1 (ONE!) example of a Polish Communist that was punished for his crimes after 1989. I am waiting, but am not holding my breath.
The title of this article is itself an inversion of reality. Just who is using “the politics of fear” so expertly? It is none other than the Jews. They keep scaring themselves and us into thinking that, without widespread and mandatory Holocaust education, another Holocaust will come. (No one suggests that we must have Polokaust education in the West so that the Poles never again become persecuted.)
A SUMMARY OF THE INNUENDO AGAINST THE DARING ZOLNIERZE WYKLECI (INDOMITABLE SOLDIERS)
The authors offer this pathetic drivel, “Evoking the myth of Judeo-Communism is part of the strategy of externalization, which consists of presenting communism [note the small letter] as alien to the Polish nation and attributing it to various others: internal, such as national minorities (Jews, Slovaks, Belarusians) or amoral renegades not representing true Polishness; and external others, specifically the Soviet Union. At the same time, this discourse marginalizes and justifies the crimes of the underground against Jews, Slovaks and Belarusians or even denies them altogether.” (p. 121).
Again, the authors provide no evidence to substantiate any of these idiotic generalizations. In fact, just about everything that the authors sneer at in the above paragraph is absolutely true. For details, see:
SO POLES HAVE A PROBLEM WITH EXTERNALIZATION? EXCUSE ME!
Since the authors are so excited about externalization and apply it to Poles, let us focus on it, and further expose the authors’ inversion of reality. The “alleged Communist agents” were not fabricated in accordance with some paranoid flaw of the Poles. They existed because of the unilateral policies of the Soviet Union forced on Poland. Were it not for this flagrant Soviet aggression, there would have been no incipient Communist takeover of Poland, no “alleged Communist agents”, no opportunity for the suitably inclined Jews and Belarusians to kill Poles (and no need for Poles to fight back), and no circumstance under which one Pole was forced to kill another Pole! This is not externalization: This is reality.
Jaskulowski and Majewski, when they dwell on “Polish Communists”, confuse the negligibly few Poles that willfully supported Communism from the beginning with the relatively many Poles that joined Communism once Soviet rule over Poland became unavoidable. It was a concession to reality. It was the fault of the Soviet Union, and not the fault of the Poles. It is no externalization.
Who does more externalizing than the Jews? Anti-Semitism abounds everywhere, we are told, and everything that befalls the Jews is someone else’s fault. Nothing is ever the Jews’ fault. It is the Jews, and not the Poles, that are caught up in externalization!
DARING ZOLNIERZE WYKLECI: WHO KILLED WHO?
Some self-appointed critics of the Zolnierze Wykleci have said that Poles honoring them are “honoring murderers” in the same way as the Ukrainians that honor the UPA. Total nonsense. There is a world of difference between the killing of a handful of Belarussians and Jews, under unclear circumstances, and the systematic genocidal murder of 130,000 Polish civilians.
The authors repeat the canned complaints about Romuald Rajs “Bury” gratuitously killing Belarusians (p. 128) and do so without as much as a glimmer of questioning of the accusations. Jaskulowski and Majewski also have a conniption about the “fighting Communism” explanation, but present not a shred of evidence that this is incorrect. (pp. 126-127). Jaskulowski and Majewski are clearly doing propaganda, not scholarship.
The authors even say that the Zolnierze Wykleci killed “thousands of Slovaks, Belarussians, and Jews”. (p. 126). Thousands? Wow! Out of which one of their fingers did they suck these figures out of?
Getting a little bit desperate in their hatred of Poland’s freedom fighters, Jaskulowski and Majewski repeat the claim that Romek Rajs “Bury” did genocide against those poor, innocent Belarusians. By what twist of left-wing logic does the (alleged) killing of a few Belarusians and Jews acquire the “marks of genocide”? (p. 116).
The authors, getting even more dramatic, interview some current Belarusians who lament the horror stories they had been told about the Zolnierze Wykleci (p. 131). They, and Jaskulowski and Majewski, conveniently omit the Jewish and Belarusian collective murders of Poles, in 1939, at places such as Brzostowica Mala. See:
https://www.jewsandpolesdatabase.org/2019/11/04/jewish-disloyalty-1939-war-wierzbicki/
ZYDOKOMUNA DENIALISM IN OVERDRIVE
Predictably, the authors run away from the truth as they keep alluding to the “myth of Judeo-Communism” (p. 115, 116, 121, 126). I did not know that the Jews so prevalent in Communist movements had actually been some cleverly disguised Martians.
IMPLICATIONS OF THE HUSHED-UP JEWISH AND BELARUSSIAN CRIMES AGAINST POLES
Perhaps Jaskulowski and Majewski could include some testimonies of Polish relatives of those murdered by Belarusians and Jews in 1939. But, of course, they won’t. It would not fit their narrative that bashes the Zolnierze Wykleci and blames everything on the Poles.
Note also the irony of Jews suddenly siding with the Belarussians (against the Poles). For the longest time, Jews have exclusively promoted their Holocaust and carefully ignored the millions of Belarusians murdered by the forces of the Third Reich. And now, conveniently, the Jews are concerned about Belarusian deaths!
In fact, Jews have played the propaganda against the Zolnierze Wykleci to the hilt. Visiting Israelis have refused to visit any memorials to the Zolnierze Wykleci because of their snotty attitude, all the while never ever admitting their murders of others.
A FEW FACTS ABOUT THE COMMUNIST TERROR
For once, the authors finally tell something like the truth. They write, “In total, several thousand partisans were killed in the postwar fighting, and approximately seventy- nine thousand underground members were arrested (of whom twenty-four thousand were murdered or sentenced to death). Between 1944 and 1947, the partisans killed approximately thirteen thousand of the Polish and Soviet military, police and security forces. Among the dead were also approximately ten thousand civilians who were victims of pacification actions, ethnic cleansings and executions as alleged communist agents.” (p. 116).
In admitting Communist criminality, the authors’ narrative falls apart. The Polish victim cannot be blamed for his situation. Leftists and Jews love to talk about “deconstructing national myths”. Wonderful. How about deconstructing Jewish and left-wing myths?
LEFTISTS, AND NOT PiS, GLORIFY MURDERERS
Complaints about the Zolnierze Wykleci supposedly applying collective guilt to the Jews and Belarusians are hypocritical in view of the Jews and Belarussians imposing collective guilt on Poles at places such as Brzostowica Mala, including the murders of Polish children. It is selective indignation once again.
With reference to the Cursed Soldiers and their commemoration by PiS, the authors make this ludicrous insinuation, “…does not mean, however, that the state should glorify criminals who murdered the civilian population.” (p. 133). Really? Here we go again with an inversion of reality. Who does this better than the lewaks and Jews? They insist that visible memorials to Communism, such as the Palace of Culture and Science in Warsaw, must remain standing. Talk about glorifying murderers!
WHO IS PROMOTING PRIDE, RESENTMENT, AND MORAL SUPERIORITY?
Jaskulowski and Majewski hurl these gratuitous insults about the promotion of the memory of the Indomitable Soldiers, “…how PiS appropriated this symbol and elevated it to the status of what we term a key symbol of collective memory in its project of reinforcing Polish collective memory around pride, resentment and moral superiority.” (p. 112). And what if this was true? “Pride, resentment and moral superiority” are much truer of Jews than of Poles! So, the authors are, once again, inverting reality, and complaining about the wrong people.
SO POLAND IS MONOETHNIC. OH, DEAR!
In recent years, there has been a volley of leftist attacks on Poland for wisely refusing to accept masses of Third World immigrants that would dilute Poland’s ethnic and Catholic character. The authors echo this left-wing line and make the following bossy comments, “Nationalist partisan groups openly proclaimed that they were striving to create a monoethnic Polish nation state.” (p. 115). So what if?
At best, the pot is calling the kettle black. The State of Israel won’t admit Third World immigrants because Jews understandably want to preserve the distinctively Jewish character of the Jewish state:
https://www.jewsandpolesdatabase.org/2019/11/04/cultural-marxism-immigrants-marrus/
Yes, and Poles have the exact same right as pertaining to the ethnically Polish and Catholic character of the Polish state! Hear that, leftists and Jews?
AUTHORS JASKULOWSKI AND MAJEWSKI FINALLY SHOW THEIR PRO-COMMUNIST COLORS
It only occurs towards the end of their paper, but the authors make these revealing comments, “…to accept the new system, especially since it had provided social advancement for millions of its citizens.” (p. 133). Where have we heard this before? In Communism, everyone is equal all right, but equal as a slave to a tiny group of elitists at the top, which in turn are the puppets of Moscow. Some social advancement!
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CONFUSING TRIVIAL EVENTS WITH IMPORTANT EVENTS. WE WILL NOT!
The allegation that the Zolnierze Wykleci may have killed a few innocent people here and there is TRIVIAL in comparison with the fact of tens of thousands of Poles murdered by the Communists! In light of this glaring fact, even talking about the alleged misdeeds of the Zolnierze Wykleci is a farce.
This alone provides ample grounds for rejecting the attacks on the daring Zolnierze Wykleci. Poles must refuse to entertain trivial acts, especially when they are insincere and so transparently leftist-serving and Jewish-serving.
POLICIES THAT POLAND SHOULD TAKE
MY RECOMMENDATION: We shall refuse to play this blame-the-Poles game. We must categorically refuse to entertain any accusations against the Zolnierze Wykleci until the Jews and Belarusians “come to terms with the past” and freely admit their murders of Poles, and that these murders get the same publicity and moral indignation as the alleged misdeeds of the Zolnierze Wykleci. Equal time for Jewish crime!
DEALING WITH THE OPEN JEWISH DISRESPECT TO THE ZOLNIERZE WYKLECI
Let us turn around the Jewish snub. Albert Einstein, while never proven to have been an active Communist, declared that he would not be ashamed to be a Communist! See:
In other words, Einstein had no problem with a violent, murderous movement, and one that killed vast numbers of Poles. So, whenever Jews refuse to honor the Zolnierze Wykleci “because they were murderers”, Poles should retaliate by refusing to honor Albert Einstein “because he was a murderer” (by identification).
CONCLUSION
The demonization of the daring Zolnierze Wykleci is part of a larger left-wing effort to discredit and demean the histories of white peoples, evidently to rob them of their self-confidence. This adds another dimension to the left-wing war against the Zolnierze Wykleci.
Because Poland’s heroic fighters are under attack, it is even more reason that they be upheld and celebrated. We need to be even more vigilant, than ever before, about leftist and Jewish efforts to smear them. The daring Zolnierze Wykleci will not successfully be slandered. Polish Power!
