Posted on 11/11/2015 11:16:28 AM PST by GonzoII
Organisers said that up to 50,000 were on the march which marked the anniversary of Poland's independence after the Second World War
Tens of thousands of protesters poured into Warsaw's streets on Wednesday for a demonstration organised by the far right, marching under the slogan "Poland for the Polish" and burning an EU flag.
Police said 25,000 people joined the march, which marked the anniversary of Poland's return to independence after the Second World War, while organisers put the numbers at 50,000.
"God, honour, homeland," chanted the protesters as they marched under a sea of red-and-white Polish flags.
Demonstrators trampled and burned a European Union flag at one point, while a banner added to the anti-EU theme with the slogan "EU macht frei" ("Work makes you free" in German), a reference to the slogan over the gates at Auschwitz.
"Yesterday it was Moscow, today it's Brussels which takes away our freedom," chanted one group of protesters.
Other banners read "Great Catholic Poland" and "Stop Islamisation".
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As to the Polish-Hungarian brotherhood, it's as old as hills. It comes from early medieval times, when Poland and Hungary formed the Jagiellonian Union. Since those times we are really close and the passing centuries only proved that.
Alas, some of the Polish nationalist organizations have antisemitic tendencies indeed.
But, believe me or not, 99% of Poles don't give a f...k for them.
Jobbik is Pan-Turanist (believes in the spiritual-mystical unity and world historical importance of the Ural-Altaic peoples like Magyars, Finns, Mongols, Turks), anti-Zionist, and anti-capitalist.
It is blood-and-soil National Socialism - not conservatism.
They're bad news. Please see wideawake's post #42.
As to the Polish-Hungarian brotherhood, it's as old as hills. It comes from early medieval times, when Poland and Hungary formed the Jagiellonian Union. Since those times we are really close and the passing centuries only proved that.
That doesn't bother me. Jobbik bothers me; henotheism bothers me.
Alas, some of the Polish nationalist organizations have antisemitic tendencies indeed.
But, believe me or not, 99% of Poles don't give a f...k for them.
That's great.
They need to stay far, far, far away from Jobbik.
There might be some elements present at the march but European “far-right” these days is also in Putin's pocket and that will never get widespread support in Poland... which of course doesn't change a fact that these people do not your unhealthy obsession with the Jews.
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