POLAND - More than 50,000 Polish nationalists paraded on the streets of Warsaw for this year's Independence March on Monday. Tens of thousands of people, waving Polish flags, were young and old, of all walks of life, with whole families, took to the streets. Thousands sang "Take care of the whole nation," which are lyrics from a Polish Catholic song, asking the Virgin Mary to defend the country. Others waved patriotic flags and chanted "No to the European Union" and "God, honor, homeland!" To the western media, these are Nazis, racists, anti-semites, and islamophobes. An abomination for the European Union.
The march began on Monday afternoon in central Warsaw with lead organizer Robert Bakiewicz telling attendees that "We have to return to our roots. Our world has abandoned God and Christianity. We will die as the nations of western Europe are dying." Poland shifted towards nationalism when Law and Justice (PiS) party came to power in 2015. PiS has asked citizens to abandon Western liberalism for patriotism and Roman Catholic values.
Attendees lit flares and marched through the streets chanting more slogans: "Not Islamic or secular, but Catholic Poland," "No to abortion," and "Great Poland is our goal." While millions of radical Muslim refugees have poured into France, Germany, Sweden, UK, Italy, and Spain, creating social-economic chaos on the streets of those countries, Poles are attempting to revive their nation through patriotism and traditional Catholic values.