“We want God”, “Great Independent Poland,” “Death to the Enemies of the Fatherland!” “Christ is Poland’s King”, “Deus vult” (Latin for God wills, a battle cry of the Crusaders)1)from St Paul’s words: “Deus vult omnes homines salvos fieri”—”God willeth all men to be saved.”these are the principal banners carried in the annual Independence March that is held in Warsaw and also in other cities on 11 November, Independence Day. Also in the one two days ago. At the head of the marching column you could see a few white flags sporting the red Jerusalem cross. Tens of thousands of people, waving tens of thousands of white-and-red national flags young and old, of all walks of life, with whole families take to the streets. The people participating in the march think of themselves as patriots (the word which in Poland still has positive overtones) paying tribute to the fallen heroes. To the western media these are Nazis, racists, anti-semites and islamophobes. An abomination for the European Union.
What has positive overtones in Poland (patriotism, faith, family), has negative ones in Western Europe and the other way round. Migrants, LGTBQ and gender mainstreaming is not welcome in the area between the Oder and Bug Rivers. The EU values cannot be farther from Poland’s values and vice versa. The Independence March denigrated by the Western media was favourably covered by the Polish government and other national media, except for those which are far to the left and very much pro-European. The former shored up the positive aspects of the event, the latter only looked for incidents to blow them out of any proportion and join the chorus of their western counterparts in condemning “fascists” and “white supremacists”.
A thirty-six million nation in the heart of Europe (i.e. with a population approximately the size of Spain’s) is throwing down the gauntlet to the EU establishment and its view of European unity based on cultural and religious indifference and anti-nationalism. While in France or Belgium Muslims pray openly in the streets, Turkish nationalists stage large rallies waving 
Turkish flags in the heart of Dutch cities and construct mosques, with empty Christian churches as sad witnesses thereto, Poles pray the rosary on the borders of their country2)Poland’s borders entrusted to Rosary Prayerand march, proudly displaying national emblems and flags, demanding God and rejecting multiculturalism.
At the time when the Soviets were establishing the communist political system in Central Europe someone said (someone ascribed these words to Stalin himself) that communism fits the Polish nation like a saddle fits a cow. Is the attempt to Europeanize Poles another attempt at saddling the cow?
Info: Marsz Niepodległości 2017 w Warszawie – TRANSMISJA
Info: De Turkse protest staatsgreep optocht trekt over de Erasmusbrug van Rotterdam Zuid naar Centrum
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| 1. | ↑ | from St Paul’s words: “Deus vult omnes homines salvos fieri”—”God willeth all men to be saved.” |
| 2. | ↑ | Poland’s borders entrusted to Rosary Prayer |
3 comments on “The EU “values” fit Poland like the saddle fits a cow”
Because of the years of communism, Poles are immune to political correctness. They will tell you things as they are, not as you are supposed to see them. Do the same, for heavens’s sake!!!
Every nation can have “point of view ” Your political correctness ois not mine. Stop interfere in polish way of life.
The E.U is undemocratic and it it bullying other nations, led by Germany. It is ‘saddling the cow’ of all nations! Poland will hopefully lead the way to oppose this with other eastern bloc countries who look upon the unelected E.U leaders as too closely resembling their own former Communist leaders They have not forgotten the miserable years of Communism which the E.U. is beginning to resemble.