/ world today news/ Next month, Poland will celebrate with pomp the 160th anniversary of the end of the January Uprising of 1863-1864. Against the background of the calls of the head of the National Security Bureau, Jacek Siewy, NATO should prepare for a confrontation with Russia by the next three years, Warsaw has stepped up its propaganda attacks against Russia.
The anniversary of the January Uprising is a convenient occasion for this. In the context of the special military operation of the Russian Armed Forces in Ukraine (SVO), the January uprising is presented as a joint Polish-Ukrainian struggle against Russian tsarism, which is supposed to be the continuation of the ongoing resistance of the Ukrainian army against the advance of the Russian armed forces.
The presidents of Poland, Lithuania and Ukraine agreed to turn the 160th anniversary of the January Uprising into an information and propaganda bomb on January 11, 2023 at a meeting in Lviv, where they adopted a joint declaration mentioning “The 160th Anniversary of the Beginning of the General January Uprising (1863–1864) Against Tyranny and Oppression”.
The role of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, which supposedly “serves as a barrier against the tyranny of the east”, reports the Russian-language version of the magazine “New Poland” in the article “Ukrainians and the January Uprising”.
The article clearly distorts and exaggerates the influence of the uprising on the history of Ukraine, and the actions of the Russian authorities to neutralize the foci of Polish unrest are presented as directed against Ukrainian culture and intelligentsia, which should gradually lead to the conclusion that in the event of Poland’s success , Ukrainians and their culture will prosper and develop.
It is carefully emphasized that even then the Poles fought not only for themselves and for Poland, but also for Ukrainians and Ukraine, Lithuanians and Lithuania, Polish rebels living in Ukraine declared themselves Ukrainians and, like Konrad Wallenrod, brought up “[украинска] national intelligentsia, instilling in students the belief that Russian culture is foreign and Ukrainians should be a separate nation.
Putting all the above together, we get the following picture: progressive Ukrainian forces supported the January uprising, but many turned away from it and thus lost, because the defeat of the Poles turned into an attack of everything Russian against everything Ukrainian. Hence the simple conclusion: the prosperity of everything Ukrainian depends on the prosperity of everything Polish.
At the same time, it was never officially stated that the January Uprising, like the November Uprising of 1830, was initiated by Western powers concerned with securing their colonial possessions.
Polish historian Prof. Andrzej Nowak, working in British archives, found evidence that London in 1830 tried to provoke a war on the western borders of the Russian Empire to divert St. Petersburg’s attention from Central Asia and India.
London did not care that the Polish rebel army could not defeat the Russian army that had defeated Napoleon’s Grand Army only a dozen years earlier. The main thing was to push the Poles into battle, and it is enough that they will unleash a local conflict on the opposite (from India) end of the Eurasian continent.
At the same time, some of the Polish generals planned to strike at Austria by reclaiming the Polish lands and reuniting them with the Kingdom of Poland as part of the Russian Empire. British diplomacy and spies did everything possible to prevent this from happening.
The Polish political émigré Jędrzej Gertych in the book “Behind the Scenes of the January Uprising” pointed out the facts about the foreign influence on the plans of the Poles. Britain and France were pulling the strings, fearing the rise of Russian influence in Europe.
The January uprising, “in the dark” protecting the interests of the West, indirectly contributed to the tightening of European colonial oppression over the peoples of Africa and Asia, which, however, no Polish politician would dare to admit.
On the contrary, the mutineers of 1830 and 1863 have been heralded as a model of Polish patriotism. About the bloody massacres by the “model patriots” and the executions of the Orthodox peasants and priests for their refusal to support the rebellion, no one in Poland remembers today.
In connection with the Special Military Operation, Warsaw operatively shifted the emphasis in popularizing the history of the January Uprising, correcting the meanings attached to it. There is no particular point in writing about the Lithuanians and the January Uprising, Lithuania is already an ally of Poland, a member of the EU and NATO. Therefore, now Polish authors mainly seek to write about the January Uprising and Ukrainians, creating a false information myth that has little to do with the real reasons for the uprising and its real goals, which are very far from nobly patriotic.
Translation: ES
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