“We want God” screamed the banners carried by ca. 60,000 people who marched through the streets of the Polish capital on Saturday, 11 November, in the Independence March.
The demonstrators carried Polish flags, red-and-white armbands – some emblazoned with the Fighting Poland anchors symbolizing Polish wartime underground resistance – and other patriotic symbols. Flags with the emblem of the National Armed Forces and the slogan “Death to Enemies of the Homeland” could also be seen.
Many marched under banners with slogans such as: „We want God!”, „Lvov and Vilnius – we remember”, “All different, all white”, “Europe will be white or deserted”, “White Europe of brotherly nations”. They chanted slogans such as: “Strike against the red vermin with a hammer and a sickle”, “God, Honour and Fatherland”, “Polish industry in Polish hands”, “Nationalism is our way”, “Away with leftism”, “Catholic not secular Poland” and “Hail to the heroes, to the never-vanquished red and white flag”. During the march, they set off smoke bombs, flares and firecrackers. They also carried posters of Roman Dmowski with the slogans: “We want God”, „Lvov and Vilnius – we remember!”, as well as images of Jesus and the words “Christ rule over us”. They also chanted anti-immigrant and anti-homosexual slogans. The police said that the demonstration was peaceful. Mateusz Pławski, a leader of the All-Polish Youth organization mentioned Warsaw’s Mayor Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz, who had demanded that Justice Minister Zbigniew Ziobro disband the National Radical Camp. Ms. Gronkiewicz-Waltz was booed after Mr. Pławski finished his speech. One of the organizers of the march, Witold Tumanowicz, said: “PiS is blazing a new trail for the rule of nationalists and for a government of the Nationalist Movement – nationalists are the only ones capable of claiming full sovereignty back from the European Union; they are the only ones able to effectively defend unborn children and the family against deviation and to take care of the Polish economy”. Next day, on 12 November, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Culture Piotr Gliński lambasted the slogans chanted and displayed on banners during the march. “There is no approval or support in the public sphere for a national community defined in ethnic terms,” he said. “I am surprised that yesterday, somewhere in the public sphere, at a beautiful national march, a banner indeed came up suggesting that some people think about the nation in ethnic and racial terms,” Gliński said. “The Polish government will not support that. I want to make it clear that we do not support such slogans,” he declared. “I think that the slogan was somewhat provocative in a broader sense, probably in the context of the negative things related to political correctness or the multicultural policy. I also think that it was a political provocation of sorts,” he added.
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