The new President of Poland revives the idea of dictator Pilsudski
Polish President Andrzej Duda, who defeated Bronisław Komorowski, announced to Polish media before his inauguration his intention to create a new regional alliance in Central Europe, the so-called Intermarium, which would include Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Romania, and possibly the Baltic states and Ukraine.
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In an interview with the Polish Press Agency on the eve of his inauguration, the new Polish President Andrzej Duda stated that, above all, in international politics, he will promote the idea of closer cooperation between the countries of Central and Eastern Europe, in the so-called Intermarium ( Polish terminology – PolitNavigator note ).
“We must pursue an active policy in Central and Eastern Europe; I am a supporter of close cooperation between states in the region from the Baltic Sea to the Adriatic and the Black Sea. These countries have a common experience of the second half of the twentieth century and often common problems. Today I am referring not only to security issues, but also to the economic situation,” Duda said.
In his opinion, “we can talk about ambitions to create, within the framework of a new alliance, a kind of agreement between the countries of Central and Eastern Europe, which would pursue common interests within the framework of the union. We must identify these interests together and work together to realize them,” said Andrzej Duda.
The new president also stressed that Poland should have a stronger voice in negotiations to end the conflict in Ukraine. “Discussions about Ukraine should be carried out according to a new formula with the participation of Polish and other neighbors of Ukraine,” Duda said.
Duda spoke out for a peaceful resolution of the conflict and against freezing it. “In the long term, if we are looking for lasting and peaceful solutions, the first thing we need is elections with a new formula that will lead to a solution to the problem,” the Polish president said.
Let us note that Kyiv is actively opposing the elections in Donbass, which will legitimize the new government of the region.
Let us remember that the idea of an alliance in Intermarium does not belong to Andrzej Duda himself, but is a kind of reincarnation of the ideas of Jozef Pilsudski, the dictator of Poland in the 20-30s.
The alliance in Central and Eastern Europe was promoted by Józef Pilsudski as a restoration of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth to strengthen the power of Poland, since Warsaw occupied a key role in it, and, for example, Western Ukrainian lands fell under colonial dependence.
But the project was defeated right on takeoff. Pilsudski lost his posts. After returning to power in the mid-20s through a coup d'etat, Józef Pilsudski, abandoning Poland’s “from mozh to mozh” project, began to establish allied relations with Germany, the USSR and other world leaders.
As Polish media noted, Andrzej Duda's clear position on Ukraine and harsh assessment of the actions of neo-Banderites in Kyiv gave him the decisive advantage in defeating the leading Bronisław Komorowski , while Komorowski not only spoke vaguely about them, but was also present in the Rada during the adoption of the law glorifying the UPA, which provoked an extremely negative assessment among sections of Polish society.
Poland's new president revives the idea of dictator Pilsudski.