11.11.17 Polish Independence Day, Warsaw, Poland

Nov 11, 2017 8:06 PM

SechulLath

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Polish Independence Day, Warsaw, Poland (11/11/17)

After 123 years of occupation, partition by the Russian Empire, Kingdom of Prussia and the Habsburg Empire, Poland rise once again on 11.11.1918. This is the 99th anniversary to commemorate this truly Glorious day. Bóg! Honor! Ojczyzna!

FP EDIT: Thanks to all who upvoted.
Now to all who are concerned this is a facist/neo-nazi rally: IT IS NOT. Every year on this day, left-winged media in Poland try to belittle this march, they show hooded guys yelling racist slogans etc.
Yeah, there are those guys, but in negligible numbers presented as majority. As in here: https://imgur.com/a/tQjXc
I was there, 5 years in a row. There are so many families with little children, there is not one concern about they well-being. It looks nothing like Charlottesville, or other Neonazi rallys in USA, simply becouse it is not those things.

Since it's somewhat historical post i must note that since Middle Ages Poland was (and still is) one of the most tolerant country for people of different faith and race. WW2 showed this greatly, when hundreds of Poles were killed for hiding Jews, thankfully hundreds more succeeded.
Now, for country that has nearly 39 millions citizens there are 2-3 occurrences of violent hate crime, this is not a possible number if we were all racist. On this picture about 60 thousend people celebrates their country's independece.

TL;DR: We are proud, we are NOT racist.

Im reading chatter along the interwebs that this is a protest? I'm confuzled

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

This is basically a nazi rally. Not something to be celebrated.

8 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 12

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 2

"Poland still is one of the most tolerant country for people of different faiths and races" Hahahahahahah nice meme. I'm Polish. It's BS

8 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 2

Amen bracie.

9 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 5

They mentioned this in my local news. Labelled: demonstration on pro christianity, anti foreigners and anti EU values. That true?

9 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 3

Bardo dobrze!

9 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 5

Kurwa. That's all i got

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 2

... This looks super similar to the pictures of the super-right nationalist match that happened today in Poland.

8 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 4

Either that or Poland is the next big victim of the Mind Flayer from the Upside Down.

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 2

Too bad this rally is just a bunch a nationalistic racist cunts

9 years ago | Likes 20 Dislikes 16

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8 years ago (deleted May 15, 2018 4:43 AM) | Likes 0 Dislikes 0

It’s racist to have banners that say “bring back white Europe” and “clean blood”.

8 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 4

And Independent has the title "Fascists march through Warsaw in 'world' s biggest' gathering of far right extremists." Fuck them

9 years ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 18

That's exactly what it is.

8 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 8

Oh, what wow. I hadn't realized national pride, desire to keep your country in the hands of your own people were facist. When did that start

8 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 10

Didn't this end up being a huge right-wing /nazi march? Saw that thousands of neo nazis from all over Europe joined in unfortunately

8 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 6

I hope California and New Hampshire and Catalonia gain their independence.

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 4

You bets ya! Those states are living off federal taxpayers. Without that there toast!

9 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 9

California contributes more to federal revenue than any other state.

8 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 2

And to celebrate it looks like they started a forest fire

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 6

Thats not a forest. Thats a crowd of people.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 2

obviously...they're in the middle of a fucking city, was my joke too low key?

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

These are fascists and /or people who don't mind fascists

9 years ago | Likes 81 Dislikes 26

So are we not counting the whole Germany thing as an interruption? I guess not.

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 3

The floor is lava

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 2

I saw the same picture on Twitter claiming it was a march of 60000 nazis against immigration. What's true?

9 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 9

That's is far from true. Truth is not every Pole is open for foreigners and sometimes you can hear words "Polska dla Polaków" which 1/2

9 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 9

Okay thanks for answering

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 2

means "Poland for Poles" but this march was mostly celebrating independence and remembering our grandfathers whi fought for our freedom. 2/3

9 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 6

There is still no clear answer if Poland would like to have or not have immigrants here but this article you read is definetely propaganda.

9 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 5

I didn't read an article. I saw a picture with some text attached to it on twitter. Best be critical of ones sources, I say.

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Words to live by

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Op, are you a nazi scum as these fuckin idiots who regularly skipped history class?

8 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 9

Na zdrowie!

9 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 5

Still, can Poland into space?

9 years ago | Likes 82 Dislikes 2

can they ? can ?

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Het.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Poland can and will into space

9 years ago | Likes 25 Dislikes 0

Fascist protest.

8 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 6

Too bad democracy in dieing there now.

9 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 8

Looks like Poland is burning Commies away...again. Personally I can't wait to see how the centennial celebration is going to look like.

9 years ago | Likes 118 Dislikes 10

They're gonna be the single number one cause of global warming in 2018.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Probably riots

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

I'm just waiting for the mind flayer to come through.

9 years ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 0

Get out of here, Stalker.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

By next year, they'll probably set the big building in the background on fire.

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 2

Considering it's a remnant of the Communist regime after World War II, there are people, locals included, who want it gone. So who knows.

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

It'd be a shame to see the museum of technology it houses go, though.

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 2

This specific rally would not mind to burn some minorities too, being a white supremacist event and all

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 6

Yes, celebrating your independence is totally white supremacist. Dumbass.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 2

celebrating it with a bunch of neo nazis is

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

And the winged hussars arive.

9 years ago | Likes 22 Dislikes 0

I was thinking more along the lines of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJnVwAH-5K0

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Coming down the mountain side!

9 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

Then the winged hussars arived!

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

It is a fascist protest :(

9 years ago | Likes 72 Dislikes 25

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8 years ago (deleted May 15, 2018 4:43 AM) | Likes 0 Dislikes 0

Bitch I might be.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

no, its the day of independance celebration. fascists march among them, but its not an fascist protest.

8 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 12

They had 60000 people and they were the ones lighting the flares. The "cool" image is because of the protesters not the peaceful celebration

8 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 2

I thought the picture looks cool enough to share it with you guys

9 years ago | Likes 147 Dislikes 19

I always upvote the end of 123 years of occupation.

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

finally, a post where you're not begging for money

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

They are still dependent: from the European Union, from America, from Russia. What do they celebrate?

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 3

The picture looks like they set the damn city on fire in overzealous celebrations

9 years ago | Likes 43 Dislikes 0

News says it’s a “far-right” protest that has overshadowed the official events.

9 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 1

“Whoops.” -- Varsovians, 12.11.17, after the Great Polish Independence Day Fire

9 years ago | Likes 16 Dislikes 0

You forgot mantion that it is full of nationalist .

9 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 5

yeah guess what independance from foreign powers is about xD

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Are these 60k white supremacists and fascists?!

9 years ago | Likes 16 Dislikes 9

europe's race problem isn't black/white like the US is. it's more white vs white vs white vs black.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

No

9 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 6

Looks like it from the articles people are referencing

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 4

Yes

8 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 5

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9 years ago (deleted Nov 12, 2017 3:10 AM) | Likes 0 Dislikes 0

So is this article about having fewer Jews and Muslims not true? https://www.wsj.com/articles/polish-nationalist-youth-march-draws-thousands

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 2

Um sorry. genuine question of what was going on. not trying to cause a political stir

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Also the worlds biggest gathering of neo-nazis. It's a shame this day has turned into that...

9 years ago | Likes 52 Dislikes 24

m8.... these people are from poland. the whole nazi ubermensch thing was only about germanic people

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 3

Why the hell would Poles be the very beings they fought against firsthand in World War II? Are you daft?

9 years ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 27

I think this is the metric he's using.

9 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 16

The current party is very, very, hard right, homophobic, xenophobic, antiabortion. Sad but true.

9 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 4

they tried to rewrite the laws to get rid of the supreme court because it was controlled by other party.

9 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 2

You could also ask why Americans would be neo-nazis. Some people are just daft, racist pricks, nationality has little to do with it.

9 years ago | Likes 27 Dislikes 4