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MINSK, 3 March (BelTA) – Poland needs to establish close relations with Belarus and Russia, as its existence and survival largely depends on it, Polish politician Krzysztof Tołwiński, international observer of the 2025 presidential election in Belarus told to Polish former judge Tomasz Szmydt in a new episode of the V Teme [On Point] project on BelTA’s YouTube channel.
“I live in Podlasie. My ancestors have been there for six centuries. No one in Washington or Brussels will teach me what Polish-Belarusian relations are. If we take the beginning of my activity in the 2000s, the time before Poland’s EU membership, I was personally focused on the eastern policy of the Polish state, but in understanding Polish-Belarusian relations. The then Security Service wanted to deal with me, but it didn't work out somehow,” Krzysztof Tołwiński said.
According to the Polish politician, the issue of existence and survival of the Polish state is inextricably linked to the arrangement of political relations. “This does not mean that we will just live peacefully as neighbors. We have a sacred duty, which is based on the fact that it is Poles who should have the closest possible political relations with Belarus. Our existence in Europe - Poles, Belarusians and Russians - depends on it,” he said.
The West is facing very difficult times now, Krzysztof Tołwiński said. “There is an incredible degeneration, the collapse of the Western world in the European Union. The question now is whether the Poles want to stay on this sinking ship, or whether they will come to their senses. Only we, Belarusians, Russians, Poles, other Slavic peoples, can save Europe, and not only in terms of civilization, culture, economy and politics,” the politician said.
Poles have been shielded by a kind of information wall from Belarus and Russia, he emphasized. Although there is a demand for information from these countries in Polish society, he added.
“In case of mass upheavals, the changes will start with a change in the Polish mentality, attitude. Polish society, the so-called Polish nation, has abandoned its civic position. This is what negatively distinguishes us today from the citizens of Belarus, who have an identity. They feel they are Belarusians, they have their own state. We, Poles, have collectively abandoned this,” Krzysztof Tołwiński said.
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