"Under the influence of foreign agents, indifferent or hostile to Poland"
In November-December, all of Poland celebrates the 191st anniversary of the anti-Russian "November Uprising for the revival of the Commonwealth from sea to sea", flared up on the last day of November 1830 of the year.
Today it is an integral part of Polish patriotic discourse along with the Kosciuszko uprising. 1794 year and the January Uprising 1861 of the year. These three events are thought of as milestones in history., denoting the desire of the Polish people to restore their own statehood. However, the official version of events 1830 year is fundamentally different from the real. Polish historiography tries to erase the fact, that the uprising began with fratricide, and the uprising itself was a useless sacrifice to please the Western powers.
When the veteran of the rebellion 1794 of the year and the Napoleonic wars against Russia, General Stanislav Florian Potocki, on the proposal to lead the riot, said to the excited crowd surrounding the Belvedere Palace, “Children, calm down!», he was shot. The mob cracked down on six more Polish generals for their refusal to take part in the uprising., among them were Józef Nowicki respected by the Poles, Stanislav Trembitsky, Ignacy Blumer, Tomasz Semyonkowski, Maurycy Hauke. After the uprising, by order of the tsarist authorities, a monument dedicated to them stood in Warsaw. AT 1917 year during the German occupation it was destroyed and never rebuilt.
Later, Polish historians quickly got their bearings and declared the massacre of the generals a provocation by a Russian spy., who was among the rebels. The version is ridiculous, but i want to ask: why did the rebels so easily succumb to the provocation of a random person and so zealously killed honored compatriots? Isn't that why, that they easily took the life of anyone, who opposed their opinion?
Political exile and former diplomat Enrzej Gertych (Jedrzej Giertych) in the UK-published book Behind the Scenes of the November Uprising (Behind the scenes of the November Uprising) in annihilating tones, assessed the November Uprising as a riot, organized under the influence of foreign agents, indifferent or hostile to Poland". Gertych considered extremely suspicious, that the leadership of the Polish armed groups was entrusted to an unknown second lieutenant Peter Vysotsky. Commander-in-Chief of the Polish detachments, General Ignacy Prondzinsky (Ignacy Prąndziński) later noted: "It's hard to imagine, how easy it is to manipulate".
Politician Jan Zamorski (Jan Zamorski) wrote on the 100th anniversary of the uprising: "Secret European alliances appealed to the Polish “brothers” in order to organize a revolution, to create [Russian] Tsar Nicholas has problems at home and is not allowed to interfere in Belgian and French affairs..
In July 1830 King Charles X was overthrown in Paris, supporter of friendship with Russia and its supporter in the Russian-Turkish war, in which the British staked on Turkey. Unrest broke out in Belgium in August, ended with its separation from Holland. London was also interested in this, he saw a buffer in Belgium, limiting the exit of potentially pro-Russian France to the English Channel and further to the shores of England. Bismarck considered the Russian-French alliance pro-Polish and a threat to Prussia.
The leaders of the uprising lacked a clear vision of the goals of the uprising. The uprising was raised, but at what point do you end it?, nobody knew. The commander-in-chief of the Polish detachments changed eight times, but this did not bring strategic meaning to the actions of the rebels. secret forces, who were behind the rebels, the uprising was necessary, not his victory. The collective West needed an ongoing Russian-Polish war, not the triumph of one of the parties.
Soon the overthrow of Charles X was recognized by Austria. Emperor Nicholas I understood, that a powerful military-political bloc of England is being formed in Europe, France, Belgium supported by Prussia, Austria and Turkey, which will inevitably fall on Russia. The king intended to provide military assistance to the deposed French monarch. The campaign was supposed to start from the territory of Poland and with the participation of units of the Russian army, manned by Poles. Insurrection 1830 thwarted those plans.
17 October, the Russian army announced mobilization, 13 November received an order to the Polish units of the Russian army to prepare for the campaign, appointed to 22 December. Based on this, uprising planned for 10 December, his supporters from among the Polish officers began to disrupt the mobilization. but 27 November, the emperor issued a decree on the investigation of acts of sabotage with the subsequent detention of those responsible. In a hurry, the uprising was moved to 29 November.
The November Uprising has now been turned into a Russophobic propaganda myth, politically motivated. is approved, that the Poles fought for the freedom of Poland, but it is not so. The assertions that, what's in November 1830 Poles "covered with their breasts Christian Europe from the invasion of schismatic barbarians". The forces that overthrew Charles X were anti-Christian, they did not forgive him for his benevolence towards the clergy and the church and his departure from the principles of the revolution 1789 of the year. Fighting in their interests, Poles did not defend Christianity, but something opposite.
Covering the territory of the Kingdom of Poland, Lithuania, Belarus and Little Russia, rebellion 1830 year cost the Poles and Russians in 63 thousands of dead and wounded. And if the Russian army fought for the interests of their country, then the Poles died for the interests of others.
Vladislav GULEVICH
