Poles demonstrate in support of Ukraine's opposition leader Yushchenko

AP ^ | Sunday, November 28, 2004

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WARSAW, Poland (AP) - Groups of Poles demonstrated across the country Saturday in support of western-leaning Ukraine opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko, who claims he was cheated out of victory in his country's presidential election.

Russian-backed Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych has been declared the election's winner, but Ukraine's Parliament on Saturday symbolically declared the election invalid after a week of growing street protests and allegations of vote fraud.

"Brother Ukrainians, we greet you from Warsaw, we greet Viktor Yushchenko," Poland's first democratic premier, Tadeusz Mazowiecki, told a crowd at a protest concert in the capital amid chants of "Yushchenko, Yushchenko."

"We admire your peaceful struggle."

Elsewhere in Warsaw, some 100 demonstrators rallied outside the Russians Embassy, chanting "Ukraine without Putin" and flying flags with Yushchenko's orange campaign colour.

Earlier in the week, Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski and his predecessor, Solidarity founder Lech Walesa, went to Kyiv in an effort to help find a solution.

Support for Yushchenko has cut across party lines in Poland, and in the western city of Gorzow Wielkopolski on Saturday members of the main opposition Civic Platform distributed orange balloons, ribbons and tangerines.

"When we watch television reports, we see a picture similar to the events in our country 15 years ago," an organizer, Robert Surowiec, told the Polish news agency PAP. "All that we can do now is to back such actions and show our neighbours in Ukraine that we are with them."

Activists in Zielona Gora, in the southwest, collected some 500 signatures in support of Yushchenko's claim, and a rally was held in the eastern city of Bialystok, organized by the Solidarity trade union and opposition parties.

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Polish conspiracy - ping !!!

[WestVirginiaRebel]

Or maybe the Poles, having suffered under Russian rule thmesleves, simply want to show their support for the right of the Ukrainians to decide their own future?

[Lukasz]

maybe some photos?? :-)

[ppaul]

Huh.
And here, all along I've been hearing that in Poland, they've been supporting the pro-Russian guy.

[Lukasz]

Some Russians must told you that. :-)

[Robert Drobot]

ppaul must have forgotten to apply a "..../sarcasm...." tag after his comment.

[Lukasz]

My comment wasn’t serious as well :-)

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http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1288393/posts

More about Polish conspiracy.

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Polish conspirators:

[trebb]

Yes, and they were betrayed by their "own folks" from the inside and in collusion with Russia. Many parallels here.

[A. Pole]

This is strange - on the second photo from the top Polish flag is upside down. Someone did not know how the Polish flag looks.

This is Polish flag:

or sometimes you can see this:

More at World Statesmen / Poland

And this might be the Polish flag when Poland, Ukraine, Turkey, former Holland, France etc ... will be integrated in the future EUrabia:

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Actually on the second photo you see a real Belorussian flag - white-red-white, but you weren't enough clever to notice it.

[Red6]

Bingo!

I think those nations that suffered and had to bleed for freedom and their republic have a different view and feeling towards their liberties and state than those who just had it "given" to them.

Red6

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Polish Tatars flag - nothing new in Poland, you know about it.



This is a flag used by the Union of Polish Tatars (Zwiazek Tatarow Polskich or Polonya Tatar Birlik), the foremost organization of the remnants of a once prosperous and influential ethno-religious group of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. From feared invaders in the XIII Century, the Tatars evolved into one of the most patriotic elements of the Polish nation. Treated with respect and equality, allowed complete religious freedom, they served with enthusiasm and numerous sacrifices their new fatherland. Over the years most of them lost their language and even the religion of their fathers by blending into Polish nobility and general population. Wars, partitions and border changes affected them severely, and today only about 5 thousand remain faithful to their tradition and Islam. But their involvement in epic struggles in defense of Poland, from the wars with the Teutonic Knights to fierce resistance against German-Soviet invasion of 1939 entitle them a special place in the society. They are not treated as a minority but as equal compatriots, just of different religion. In the Polish III Republic they have a chance to flourish again. Besides two archaic mosques in Kryszyniany and Bohoniki (near Bialystok), a new and modern mosque was built in Gdansk and cultural centers opened in Bialystok and Warsaw. Most recently, the Union of Polish Tatars and Polish Islamic Association issued statements condemning the attack on the WTC.

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Polish Tatars regiment. Unfortunatelly most of them were slaughtered by both Nazis and Soviet.

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Polish Tatars today:




Do you have any problem with them ?

[A. Pole]

Actually on the second photo you see a real Belorussian flag - white-red-white, but you weren't enough clever to notice it.

You are right, thank you for the correction!

[A. Pole]

Do you have any problem with them ?

Not at all. I just tried to find some approximation of the future Polish flag within the EUrabia. BTW, do you know what is the most popular name for the newborn boys in the capital of EU for the last few years? Muhammad. And what is the second? Osama.

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I don't have any problems with Muslims, but it should be interesting for you that Russia has more Muslims than all EU.