Polish Populists Shared Their Vision Of Relations With Russia

They have a chance of becoming the kingmakers after fall 2027’s next Sejm elections.

A leading representative of Grzegorz Braun’s Confederation of the Polish Crown (KKP) populist opposition party, director of the party’s parliamentary caucus Piotr Heszen, commemorated Russia Day in early June at the Russian Embassy. His participation sparked a scandal among some who considered it treasonous to associate with Russia during the Ukrainian Conflict. They also objected to the declaration that he shared on X at the time about the KKP’s vision of Polish-Russian relations, which will now be reviewed.

The most important part is that “We recognize the enormous role of the West in the emergence of this conflict and its sustenance. War is a terrible thing. Therefore, expressing sympathy for the victims, we raise with force the slogan: POLAND FOR PEACE. But we also say: THIS IS NOT OUR WAR, clearly recognizing the participation of globalist forces—by no means Ukrainian—in its course, which is contrary to Poland’s raison d’état.”

Thus, “The state we desire is the normalization of relations with our Russian neighbor. We are convinced that all historical grievances, assuming goodwill on both sides, can be relatively easily overcome. We wish for daily trade, cultural, and human contacts with the Russians. God the Creator placed our nations close to each other. We should do everything to transform this geographical proximity into closeness of relations and, wherever possible, into a community of interests beneficial to both sides.”

The declaration concluded that “the world, brought to a boil and full of anxiety, awaits this normalization—because, as has been known not from today—the piece of the Globe that is the junction between Poland and Russia was, is, and will be one of the most important keys to achieving lasting peace among nations.” Of relevance, Braun shared his proposal for mutual Polish-Russian de-escalation in late November, but there was never any chance that the ruling liberal-globalist coalition would implement it.

In any case, its significance and that of the declaration on bilateral relations that Heszen read at the Russian Embassy are that KKP is the Polish political party with the most pragmatic approach towards Russia, but this doesn’t mean that they’re a “fifth column”. Prime Minister Donald Tusk falsely accused KKP, the other Confederation populist opposition party, his “Law and Justice” (PiS) conservative rivals, and nominally independent President Karol Nawrocki of pushing for a “Polexit” with Russian backing.

In reality, the ruling liberal coalition dishonestly conflates “pro-Russian sentiment” with typical right-wing opinions about Ukrainian refugees, Bandera, the EU, and national sovereignty. Their attempt to concoct a Russiagate scandal in Poland is an act of desperation meant to spook on-the-fence voters ahead of fall 2027’s Sejm elections. As was explained here, KKP and Confederation could hypothetically become the kingmakers in a new PiS government, which might lead to some foreign policy influence.

While obstacles remain, such as US Ambassador Tom Rose’s reported threat to PiS chief Jaroslaw Kaczynski that the US wouldn’t support a PiS-led coalition government with Braun, they could be overcome in the interests of political survival to avoid letting the liberal-globalists retain power. For this reason, no matter how far-fetched KKP’s critics might consider such a scenario to be, it’s worth raising wider international awareness of the party’s pragmatic approach towards Russia in case this happens.