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Krakow became one of dozens of cities, led by Warsaw, where protesters blocked traffic. Photo: Instagram
Despite the tightening of quarantine measures, Poland has been embroiled in protests over the blockade of multi-million dollar streets for almost a week.
The reason was the law passed on an almost complete ban on abortion, including for medical reasons, but the demonstrations turned into a massive riot against the government and the church with a tendency to escalate, joined by other discontents.
Police use tear gas against protesters and violently suppress protests everywhere.
On Wednesday October 28, in Warsaw, farmers plan to block trails with tractors, they have their own concerns: a new law on the protection of animals, which is now being considered in the country’s parliament and which, they fear, will remove the profitability of animal husbandry. On Wednesday, many threaten not to go to work in protest.
In addition, taxi drivers and restaurateurs take to the streets, unhappy with the almost total closure, which was recently announced in Poland.
“The protests are very varied, chaotic, they arise for various reasons. Many are still bitter about the new quarantine, and all these closures and prohibitions on abortion are considered an interference in private life by the State.” People are fired up, some see this as an attempt at revenge by the opposition forces, “Polish journalist Marcin Kowalczyk told Strana.
The slogan of the protest movement was “This is war” and the obscene “Wypierdalać!”, Which means “Yee @ yyte!”, Addressed to the ruling conservative party “Law and Justice”, led by Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the leader not country official.
By the way, the opposition is debating whether it is ethical to use foul language as the main slogan of the demonstrations. But, as the protesters themselves say, “they exploded.” Furthermore, the discontents called Poland “the first caliphate of Europe” and are outraged that the country is “sinking into the Middle Ages.”
In addition to blocking roads, the strikers attack churches and disrupt services in the churches of the Catholic Church, which is very influential in the country (the law was passed at the initiative of the ruling party and the church).
Some call the church’s goals Jesuit, accusing it of relying on donations from parents of seriously ill children who were not allowed to abort, and on government subsidies for the lifelong care of those left in the hospital. .
The authorities have already reacted to the protests.
On October 27 at night, Kaczynski appealed to the people, in which he called the protesters “criminals”, referring to the violation of anti-epidemic rules, called for the protection of churches, parents to protect children of “the pernicious influence of nihilism and the expression of the protesters.
“This attack on the church is the offensive that should destroy Poland, lead to the triumph of the forces whose power will put an end to the history of the Polish people, as we understood it previously,” Kaczynski said.
“Optimistic comments from social networks: this is Kaczynski, who always wanted to be Piłsudski, but became Jaruzelski, so he wants to divert attention from the ever-increasing power shallows in the fight against Covid. Pessimistic comments: this is it a direct call for civil war, us or them. Concession. it won’t be, “writes Elena Babakova, a journalist living in Poland, on her Facebook page.
Poland rebelled, and not just against the abortion ban
Meanwhile, since October 28, authorities have further increased the quarantine (more on this below) and introduced military patrols into the streets. In Poland, this was taken with hostility, believing that the protests, and not the coronavirus, were the real reason for the tightening of the quarantine.
“Is this already martial law or should we wait until Kaczynski puts on his military uniform and dark glasses?” – a Ukrainian journalist living in Poland, Oleg Khavich, writes on Facebook. The “sunglasses” are an allusion to the ruler of communist Poland, General Jaruzelski, who declared a state of emergency in the country in the early 1980s amid protests from the Solidarity movement.
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On behalf of the city of Warsaw, the protesters played with the words war (translated from English – war)
The community of experts does not exclude the strengthening of the protests and their escalation into a confrontation between the Polish right-wing conservatives and the leftists.
“The Polish protest of recent days is nothing like the dignity revolutions of Eastern Europe in recent years. This is purely Paris 1968 (the social crisis in France, which started with radical left student protests and resulted in mass riots – Ed.) “, – writes Babakova.
The comments below the post recall that the Parisian protest was Marxist.
The protests coincided with the tightening of restrictions due to the coronavirus, which came into effect on Saturday, October 23, when all of Poland entered the “red zone”.
The country closed restaurants, leaving only takeout and delivery food, sanatoriums and schoolchildren, from the 4th grade, they were transferred to distance education.
Children under the age of 16 may leave the house during the day only under the supervision of their parents, and rates for more than five people are prohibited.
The Polish authorities do not exclude a complete blockade.
The partial quarantine has already affected Ukrainian migrant workers, who are again complaining of losing their jobs.
“I just got a job in the restaurant, when it was closed. In the spring I was already fired from another cafe due to quarantine, I had not paid until the end. I had to go back home, but then I returned to Poland, there is no work in home “, told us a resident Lviv Region Oleg Maslyuk.
In other areas, wage cuts have started as well.
“I was harvesting in the summer, but the seasonal work ended, I got a job in a packing and grading plant, but we were told that the rates would be reduced by 20% due to the new quarantine, although it is not clear how we are concerned about the closure. of restaurants. Just an ‘excuse’ for less. Now I will receive 14 thousand hryvnias for our money, and not 20 thousand, as before, “Galina Stakhurskaya, who works near Krakow, confessed to the” Country “.
