So stupid, they can call it whatever they want but it won’t change the reality that Russia controls it, mostly Russians live there.
It’s a country where brainworms are extremely widespread and where the alternative to far-right ideology (traditionalist Social Democracy) is far-right ideology (fuck you poor people libertarianism). I should know, I’ve been there last week.
There are surprising pockets of left wing thought, such as when a socdem magazine openly praising AES Poland on its cover last week, but you won’t hear it from random people on the street due to tabooisation. Or maybe it’s just because my relatives live in the most pro-PiS part of the country and are not devoid of brainworms themselves.
If we pretend russians don’t exist, maybe all our problems will go away :so-true:
epic win :soypoint-1:
When I was there last week, it was during the Majòwka holiday combo (Labor Day-Flag Day-Constitution of the 3rd of May 1791 Day) and State media was flirting with the idea of resurrecting the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth lol.
Not in a “We’re gonna annex Vilnius” way, but more in a “Please Lithuania, it’s gonna be really cool”, but still history has an extreme value in Polish propaganda. They couldn’t shut up about it.
Interestingly, it wasn’t really anti-communist, even in what criticised AES Poland. Instead, when talking about that era it was going “Russia was holding us back” and similar.
Makes sense considering the main voter base of PiS is boomers who got screwed over by the counterrevolution, who even if they don’t miss socialism, probably think fondly of the economic stability they had back then.
