Poland is concerned by pro-Putin slogans at farmers' protests, saying Russian agents may be to blame

Polish authorities voiced grave concerns Wednesday after slogans praising Russian President Vladimir Putin and his war against Ukraine appeared at Polish farmers’ protests.

The Foreign Ministry said it believed that extreme groups were trying to take over the farmers’ protest movement “perhaps under the influence of Russian agents.”

On Tuesday, one tractor at a protest in the southern region of Silesia carried a Soviet flag and a banner that said: "“Putin, put things in order with Ukraine, Brussels, and our rulers.”

Interior Minister Marcin Kierwinski called the banner “scandalous,” and said that it was immediately secured by police, and that prosecutors were also investigating.

Blue_Morpho,

This right after Putin blamed Poland for WW2?

Not a coincidence.

someguy3, (edited )

Wait what?

*“Putin said the Poles forced Hitler to attack them in 1939.”

"Hitler just wanted to ‘realize his plans’ and Poland was ‘uncooperative’ and ‘forced’ Hitler to attack and start World War II, Putin said.

Lololol

LibertyLizard,

Hitler just needed to denazify Poland.

BolexForSoup,
BolexForSoup avatar

Carlson’s ridiculous interview with Putin

TransplantedSconie,

Because they didn’t give Nazi Germany a concession and “forced” Germany to invade them. This is the face Tucker gave Putin when he said it and Tucker replied “Exactly” https://lemm.ee/pictrs/image/c2e1f85e-c8e4-49bf-a7cc-cf19d458f3c9.jpeg

TransplantedSconie,

Also, during the interview, Putin kept repeating “Poland, this” and “Poland, that”.

Poland is next on his invade list

BackOnMyBS,
@BackOnMyBS@lemmy.world avatar

WWIII baby! You know what that means…nuclear annihilation! Put your best suit on so when the next civilization finds you they’ll say, “Damn, this was one fly ass motherfucker, getting dressed up for a nuclear explosion.”

jabjoe,

He’ll wait until he has man Trump back in. Then NATO can’t be counted on.

DarkThoughts,

I'd guess the Baltics & Suwalki gap first, maybe with an "integration" of Belarus too, to get full control over it (more fresh meat to throw into the front).

DarkThoughts,

The biggest joke about this delusional history lesson is that Putin basically compared himself to Hitler.

Blue_Morpho,

newsweek.com/poland-angrily-responds-putins-claim…

In the Tucker Carlson interview Putin said Poland caused WW2 by not giving territory to Hitler.

dubyakay,

Didn’t know Hitler was a taoist.

if the folk needs Lebensraum and the way is to reach for it, then we’ll reach for it

All makes sense now!

Fedizen,

this is how it started in ukraine isnt it?

grue,

You know the really insidious thing about this virulent infection of propaganda? You have to be skeptical to defend against it, but even by making people skeptical Putin benefits. For example, when I saw this thread I thought to myself “maybe Poland is claiming the farmers’ movement is being subverted by Russia in order to discredit it,” and I had to deliberately decide to dismiss that possibility

So basically, you end up with everybody splintering into a bunch of groups:

  1. Some people believe the propaganda and become useful idiots for Russia.
  2. Some people believe Poland’s warning and thus lose trust in their fellow citizens.
  3. Some people distrust Poland’s warning and thus lose trust in their government.
  4. Some people go into a Vizzini-esque spiral second-guessing everything.

And in every case, Poland’s ability to present a united front against Russia’s aggression is diminished.

Wrench,

Professor Chaos is the real threat to humanity

Risk,

Pretty sure I saw someone’s comment earlier saying one ‘Polish’ farmer-protestor was on a list of Russian agents.

Th4tGuyII,
Th4tGuyII avatar

You'd think being so close to that monster would make them much wearier, but if they want to be Russian so badly, they should go live in Russia - they need more meat for the Ukraine-shaped grinder anyways

hydroptic, (edited )

“Russian agents” or just regular 'ol stupid people living in Poland?

Based on some polling about 20% of the Russians living in Finland are pro-Putin, and I’d assume the percentages are at least in the same direction in Poland too. Nonzero numbers of Finns also support Putin

tsonfeir,
@tsonfeir@lemm.ee avatar

What’s the MAGA equivalent for Putin?

someguy3,

Make Russia Czarist again.

hydroptic,

Hmm good question. I’m not too clued in to the nitty gritty of Russian politics because my Russian skills are nonexistent so I mainly just read translated materials. The most detailed I can get is that I know that the “anti-MAGA” folks have a tendency of calling Putin’s party United Russia the “party of crooks and thieves” but that’s about it. I feel like they have to have some sort of slogan

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