The Tuchola Forest in northern Poland continues to reveal its secrets as archaeologists explore its vast woods and lakes. A team of archaeologists led by Olaf Popkiewicz made an exceptional discovery near Grzybek, in Wdecki Landscape Park, on the shores of the Żur Reservoir. What began as a routi
  • propter_hog [any, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    26 days ago

    The Anti-Defamation League estimated the number of far-right skinheads in Poland at 2,000, the fifth highest number after Germany, Hungary, the Czech Republic and the United States.[13] Since the late 2000s, native White power skinhead, White supremacy, and Neo-Nazi groups were largely absorbed into more casual and better organized “Autonomous Nationalists”. National Radical Camp march in Kraków, July 2007

    On the political level, the biggest victories achieved so far by the far-right were in the 2001, 2005, 2015, 2019 and 2023 elections. The League of Polish Families won 38 seats in 2001, and 34 in 2005. In 2015, entering parliament from the list of Kukiz’15, the far-right National Movement gained 5 seats out of Kukiz’s 42. In April 2016, the National Movement leadership decided to break-off with Kukiz’s movement, but only one MP followed the party’s instructions. The ones that decided to stay with Kukiz’15, together with few other Kukiz’s MPs, formed parliamentary nationalist association called “National Democracy” (Endecja).[14] In 2019, the Confederation had the best performance of any far-right coalition to date, earning 1,256,953 votes which was 6.81% of the total vote in an election that saw a historically high turnout. Together the coalition (although de jure a party) earned 11 seats, 5 for KORWiN, 5 for National Movement, and 1 for Confederation of the Polish Crown.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Far-right_politics_in_Poland

    Never been to Poland, but it’s no real surprise that every Polish person I’ve ever met has been politically somewhere between Trump-level fascist and neonazi. And I’ve met quite a few Poles, given I live in Chicago.

    • nednobbins@lemm.eeEnglish
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      25 days ago

      There are many reasons the ADL is considered an unreliable source https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Defamation_League#Reception_and_controversies and Wikipedia even banned them as a source on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict all together.

      Poland had some the highest per-capita death rate of any country in WWII. They had some of the fiercest resistance to the Nazis of any nation on the planet. The Warsaw Uprising was one of the few resistance movements that was actually effective enough to piss off the Nazis. The remaining pieces of the Ghetto Walls still serve as a Holocaust memorial that spans large chunks of Warsaw.

      A bunch of Polish Americans may or may not be Nazis. I have no idea. The Poles in Poland are some of the un-Naziest people you can find on the planet.