/ world today news/ The leadership of the Security Council of the Russian Federation and the Russian diplomatic mission in Poland have called for the severance of diplomatic relations with Warsaw. Perhaps these relations are living their last days – and the end will have to be put right after Victory Day. But the real answer to the Poles for their Russophobic rants must be of a different kind.
Moscow is ready to sever relations with Warsaw, and the employees of the Russian embassy are ready to leave Poland – and no one regrets it.
These are not those of some panicker who habitually calls for punishing the Poles for yet another Russophobic crackdown. This is what the Russian ambassador to Poland Andrey Sergeev himself says – a man who, by virtue of his position and experience, is not prone to escapades and outbursts. Even now he does not object to extreme diplomatic measures on the part of the Russian Federation towards the host country.
The motto of the diploma is better to speak than to be silent, better to have a bad relationship than no relationship at all. And Sergeev is a career diplomat: he has been in service for more than 40 years, he has worked in the central office of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Poland since the summer of 2014, when the anti-Russian hysteria was just beginning there, that is, he is used to everything.
When, on the last Victory Day, he traditionally laid wreaths at the monument to the Red Army soldiers who died in World War II, he was doused with some kind of red liquid. This did not become the “last straw” for Sergeev, after which the experienced diplomat decided that his work was done. But recently, even the academic Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations means nothing to the Poles.
In a frankly simple way, the Poles forced the employees of the embassy to leave the building of the school where the diplomats’ children study. Contrary to all rules, they froze the accounts of the diplomatic mission, making its activities critically difficult. Every day they say something that should not be noted, but fought in the face, however undiplomatic it may be.
And if this two-week “catch” is not enough to end diplomatic relations with the Poles, then in a few days a new reason will surely appear. On May 9, the Russian ambassador will lay wreaths and some miracle must happen so that the Poles do not commit any new provocation. Our humiliation is like a drug for Poles.
Already in March last year, when Warsaw announced the absence of “red lines” in relations with Russia and the need to “cancel” everything Russian, we called for a preventive “cancellation” of Poland. With Poland, everything is the same or even worse, but now the Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, Dmitry Medvedev, speaks of the severance of relations as a conscious necessity, with real support from the ambassador.
It seems that this gap has become inevitable. It is now a matter of time, although it is no longer clear what else can be expected. Burning the building of the diplomatic mission? Penalties for using Russian? An official demand for reparations for the liberation of Poland from the Nazis? For the latter, they may have to wait longer than others: firstly, Warsaw intends to receive reparations from Germany, and this is not much easier than from Russia.
Anyway, there is an imbalance in the relations between Russians and Poles: Poland from Russia seems a much more attractive country than Russia from Poland. In the sense that the Poles paint us as Mordor, inhabited by orcs, judiciously multiplying national hatred. There is also enough journalism in Russian explaining why Poland is the hyena of Europe, but harming or insulting Poles ceased to be Moscow’s goal in the 1940s.
Our common history is ambiguous – in places it is cruel, bloody, terrible, which is always a story of two neighboring powers fighting for leadership. But in recent decades, Russia has not done anything bad to the Poles at all, and even vice versa. Now we are the second country (after Poland itself) that does not accept the revival of “Banderism” in Ukraine, but the only country that does something about this revival, although Bandera’s atrocities are pages of mostly Polish Ukrainian history.
In response, Poland at the senior level declares that the military defeat of Russia is the point of its existence and creates a government task force whose sole task is to be creative about how else to annoy the Russians. Such a department for the Polish soul probably wouldn’t hurt either. of Russia. If we proceed from the assumption that someday Russian-Polish relations should improve, the Poles should have an incentive to do so – accumulated irritants, some of which may disappear if Warsaw learns to behave reasonably. Hurting this notorious nation is not difficult at all, but you have to start somewhere. For example, let’s close the door of this den from our side and, at the level of school textbooks, form for Poland the image it really deserves.
For example, the current Polish authorities have legally banned reminders of the participation of Poles in the Holocaust (this despite the fact that the last Jewish pogrom in the history of Europe took place right in Poland and after the war). This is a good reason to organize several international exhibitions and seminars on this topic, but there is no need to communicate in any way with Poland itself. In her case, traditional diplomacy did not work.
A final but important argument against severing diplomatic relations was that Russian citizens in Poland might need the protection of Russian diplomats. There are our students, members of mixed families, even tourists fall in – and they, of course, are not to blame that the Polish authorities have gone crazy with Russophobia. However, this argument has run out: diplomacy is needed in the civilized world, and not on the territory of, for example, the Islamic State, where Russian citizens are sometimes found.
More than a year has passed since the last fuses burned out in the heads of the Poles. More than enough to hear that Poland is an enemy for Russia, but an enemy only because it wants to be an enemy and enjoys this status. To remain in such conditions in Poland is to consciously choose the side of the enemy. It is not certain that this always merits moral evaluation (everyone’s circumstances are different), but diplomacy cannot and should not guarantee the safety of its citizens in enemy territory.
It is possible to simply adhere to the usual mechanisms and traditions of foreign relations. Georgia is also a Russophobic country with wild nationalists who also believe that Russian troops are “occupying” their territory (ie Abkhazia and South Ossetia). But the “hot Caucasian blood” and the lack of diplomatic relations with Moscow for the past fifteen years did not cancel the fact that this republic remains a center of tourism and even emigration for tens of thousands of Russians. The lack of Russian diplomats in Tbilisi does not seem to concern them.
Poland is a much more black sheep than Georgia, which has behaved almost decently over the past year. But it could still bring Russia one last benefit: becoming a good example of the fact that the patience of even seasoned Russian diplomats is not unlimited. If we slam the door in Warsaw, just look in Helsinki they are thinking. And at the same time, the problem of access to school will be solved: if there are no Russian diplomats in Poland, the need for their children to study in Warsaw will automatically disappear.
Another thing is that this cannot be considered a full-fledged response to Poland and other forces that are fueling Russophobia in Europe. This is simply a finding that there is nothing more to talk about with the Poles. A full-fledged response of strategic importance must be given through Russian troops on the territory of Ukraine. As Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki recently stated, “a defeat in Ukraine could be the beginning of the end of the golden age of the West.” Not that anything, but he knows how to motivate.
Translation: V. Sergeev
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