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\n\n Doctors listening to a propaganda briefing at a Navapolack clinic in June this year\n <\/div>\n \n <\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

September 17, Pozirk.<\/em><\/strong> Belarusian ideology officials have issued new guidelines promoting anti-Polish propaganda on the occasion of People\u2019s Unity Day, which the government observes on September 17\u2014the anniversary of the Soviet invasion of Poland in 1939.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Scientific Research Institute of Theory and Practice of State Governance, affiliated with Management Academy under the President, has distributed manuals instructing propaganda officers on how to influence youth, intellectuals, and workers. According to Pozirk\u2019s <\/em>analysis, the sections directed at intellectual audiences contain some of the most aggressive anti-Polish rhetoric.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe current Polish establishment now seems to consider itself the direct successor of the [J\u00f3zef] Pi\u0142sudski regime\u2014complete with contempt for Germans, subservience to the Anglo-Saxons and the indiscriminate killing of migrants who dare set foot on Polish soil,\u201d one manual declares.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The authors accuse Warsaw of seeking to restore the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, form a Baltic\u2013Black Sea confederation and a new Entente and even reclaim Ukraine\u2019s Volhynia and Galicia regions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The manual further alleges that between 1921 and 1939\u2014when western Belarusian territories were part of the Second Polish Republic\u2014Poles treated horses and cows better than national minorities. \u201cThose who have traveled to modern Poland to earn money by picking apples, strawberries or doing manual labor on construction sites or farms know that attitudes have changed little over the past hundred years,\u201d it claims.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The document also denigrates the Pole\u2019s Card (Karta Polaka<\/em>)\u2014a document confirming ties to the Polish nation\u2014likening it to \u201ca brand used to mark livestock.\u201d According to the manual: \u201cIt is a mark that owners put on their property, even future property, but not on themselves, as there is no need.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The authors add that some individuals seeking Polish citizenship are willing to \u201csell their birthright for a bowl of porridge.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Propaganda officers are expected to hold meetings with workers, students and intellectuals on September 18 to reinforce these messages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The briefings come amid tensions between Minsk and Warsaw over irregular migration from Belarus to the EU, Minsk’s refusal to release Polish journalist Andrzej Poczobut imprisoned on politically-motivated charges, the recent arrest of a Polish monk on spying charges and Poland’s closure of its border with Belarus in connection with Belarusian-Russian military maneuvers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alaksandar \u0141uka\u0161enka and his officials continue to use ideology as a tool to tighten their grip on Belarus, but they have struggled to develop coherent narratives. Instead, their propaganda relies heavily on Soviet legacies and nostalgia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

State propaganda lesson in Belarusian schools: a relay race no one wants to run<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

September 17, Pozirk. Belarusian ideology officials have issued new guidelines promoting anti-Polish propaganda on the occasion of People\u2019s Unity Day, which the government observes on September 17\u2014the anniversary of the Soviet invasion of Poland in 1939. The Scientific Research Institute of Theory and Practice of State Governance, affiliated with Management Academy under the President, has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":142427,"template":"","rubric":[16,15],"class_list":["post-155865","articles","type-articles","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","rubric-politics","rubric-society"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nBelarus\u2019 propaganda workers fuel anti-Polish sentiment on anniversary of Soviet invasion of Poland | Pozirk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"September 17, Pozirk. 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