‘Poles should be ready to die for their homeland’: PM
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Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said recently at an event commemorating the National Day of Remembrance for “Cursed Soldiers” that “‘Cursed Soldiers’ are the fathers of Solidarity and thus are the fathers of our independence.”
“Cursed soldiers” is a term used to describe various clandestine Polish anti-communist resistance movements formed in WWII and its aftermath. The popularity of remembrance of the “cursed soldiers” has increased in recent years and been heavily promoted by nationalist circles and Poland’s governing right-wing Law and Justice (PiS) party.
The subject of the “Cursed Soldiers” is controversial because along with glory, they are associated with violence and cruelty. Some of them were responsible for massacring several ethnically Belarusian villages on Polish territory in 1946 and slaughtering ethnic minorities.
“It is worth that all Poles are willing to give their lives and devote themselves completely to their homeland,” Morawiecki added. A letter to participants was sent by President Andrzej Duda.
