{"id":43696,"date":"2021-01-27T23:58:53","date_gmt":"2021-01-27T22:58:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=43696"},"modified":"2021-01-28T06:44:11","modified_gmt":"2021-01-28T05:44:11","slug":"dziekuje-polsko-nice-article-by-the-polish-media-do-rzeczy-about-counting-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2021\/01\/27\/dziekuje-polsko-nice-article-by-the-polish-media-do-rzeczy-about-counting-stars\/","title":{"rendered":"Dzi\u0119kuj\u0119, Polsko! Nice article by the Polish media Do Rzeczy about Counting Stars"},"content":{"rendered":"

This afternoon, the Polish weekly Do Rzeczy published a beautiful article by Ma\u0142gorzata Wo\u0142czyk on Counting Stars<\/a>, which leaves me speechless.<\/p>\n

Polish Catholics: the great forgotten when talking about the victims of the Holocaust<\/a><\/rel>
\nPilecki: The man who unveiled the Holocaust and ended up executed by the communists<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n

The original article, in Polish, can be read by clicking here.<\/a> If you don't speak Polish, as is my case, you can see an automatic translation into English by clicking here<\/a>. I was wondering whether to put the translation here, but the article is so complimentary that I am a bit ashamed to publish it here\u2026 I thank Ma\u0142gorzata and Do Rzeczy for publishing that article, it has moved me.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I do want to respond to something that Ma\u0142gorzata points out in the article: the alleged ingratitude of the Poles towards the articles that I dedicate to their homeland in this blog.<\/strong> I could complain about other people or groups that I have defended and who have not even thanked me, but I cannot complain about Poland. So far, Counting Stars is having more diffusion in the Polish media than in the Spanish media, and in a very positive way. Likewise, through social media and by email I have received many messages of thanks from Poles<\/strong>, in affectionate terms that always excite me. Just today, following the publication of that article in Do Rzeczy, I have received several dozen messages of thanks from Polish citizens, which I will answer one by one.<\/p>\n

Furthermore, I have to say that I neither expect nor deserve such thanks from the Poles. I limit myself to covering, as I can, my part of the debt that the rest of Europe owes to Poland<\/strong>, for having fought for Freedom against the two great totalitarianisms of the 20th century, Nazism and Communism, often from the most absolute loneliness. I feel indebted to heroes like Witold Pilecki<\/a> and to the victims of the Holocaust<\/strong>, a genocide whose main victim was the Polish Nation. I am indebted to the Polish resistance and to the \"Cursed Soldiers\"<\/a>, about whom a few Hollywood films should have been made by now, but who are hardly known outside of Poland.<\/p>\n

I feel indebted to a country that has given Catholic such great Catholic saints as Maria Faustina Kowalska, Maximilian Kolbe and John Paul II<\/strong>, martyrs like priests Ignacy Skorupka<\/a> and Jerzy Popie\u0142uszko<\/a> and kings like Jan III Sobieski<\/strong>, who saved Europe from a Muslim invasion with his victory at the Battle of Kahlenberg in 1683 at the head of his famous winged hussars. I also feel indebted to Poland for having welcomed part of the Sephardim<\/a>, the Spaniards who were expelled from their own Homeland for being Jews - one of the saddest and most shameful events in our history - and who, among other places, settled in the Polish region of Galicia<\/a>, which shares a name with my Spanish homeland.<\/p>\n

I am also grateful in Poland for being today one of the strongest centers of resistance to progressive single thought and the culture of death. Today Poland is a bastion in defense of Christian life and values, and for this it deserves a loud applause.<\/strong> That is why I have titled this post with a \"Dzi\u0119kuj\u0119, Polsko!\" (Thank you, Poland!), Because that great Nation owes me nothing, and the rest of Europeans owe them a lot.<\/strong> For my part, I will continue trying to pay off that debt, even if it is to the limited extent of my ability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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