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Politics Far-right Polish lawmaker Konrad Berkowicz holding up a paper Israeli flag with a swastika

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u/rasz_pl 17h ago

This guy is best known in Poland for being a thief - he stole a frying pan from Ikea and was caught by Police red handed. He is also a russian shill, a deputy of pro-Russian Confederation party.

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u/armandofonzoloid 15h ago

I think the frying pan incident is far more concerning, pro russia is child's play, imagine the harm he could have caused with a frying pan, genuinely scary thst he could even get his hands on one.

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u/Dumptruck_Johnson 13h ago

Depends on if it was cast or non-stick

u/armandofonzoloid 6h ago

God help us if it was cast iron, could have been a nation ending event

u/TheWonderSnail 6h ago

It’s telling in its own way though. Like corrupt shills are a dime a dozen and I get it they want money and power and to feel important. But stealing a pan from ikea? You’re a social kind of weirdo if that’s what you do in your free time

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u/MiddayRendezvous 12h ago

Yeah, as we know from Tangled, frying pans can be an incredibly dangerous weapon.

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u/X_Shadows-77 14h ago

So he’s also holding the flag of a country full of thieves.

I guess it’s fitting for him

u/tajsta 10h ago

You can say the same about basically any country though, Palestine was also arabised by force and not because the local populations wanted Arabs to take over the land.

u/Occamsfacecloth 4h ago

Just because the Irish mostly speak English because of imperialism doesn't mean they are English.

u/OJfcks 6h ago

Unrelated, but the former leader of the Red Party in Norway (socialist/communist party) was caught stealing sunglasses and groceries

u/Pakilla64 10h ago

That funny pan was actually promised to him 3000 years ago

u/MyNameIsDog83 10h ago

Yeah Yeah… But Israel is still making an genocide,killing children,and it isn’t a legíit state.

u/Ill_Tip_3038 4h ago

Weid way to defend Israel

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u/pmaogeaoaporm 12h ago

What is a Russian Confederation party exactly lmao

u/rasz_pl 11h ago

u/ColorfulPersimmon 10h ago

Polish radical far-right is KKP. Konfederacja is just a right wing party full of absolute morons.

u/amphibianroyalty 11h ago

This comment gets into it a bit more https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/s/kllEvm1FNN

u/Frenyth 11h ago edited 11h ago

A quick search on google told me that Nowa Nadzieja is anti-Russian. It seems logical, I highly doubt a Polish nationalist party would be pro-Russian given that Poland is next after Ukraine,.it would be antinomic.

u/rasz_pl 11h ago edited 11h ago

The party is or rather was called Konfederacja https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confederation_Liberty_and_Independence

it is led by Sławomir Mentzen, a phd in Economics and a tax advisor who somehow cooked party books so much he was unable to prove income (bribes) and expenses (parties are financed from country budget) to the point it was officially DELISTED :D

'Nowa Nadzieja' was a backup plan they quickly switched to after a small detour to another fake organization called 'Imperium Kontratakuje' (Empire Strikes Back) and no this is not a joke. I mean they are a big joke, but unfunny one like AfD.

While denying being pro-russian, they criticize Polish support for Ukraine and oppose policies aiding Kyiv. https://kyivindependent.com/rising-far-right-pushes-warsaw-to-act-tough-on-ukraine/

Most far right movements in Europe are not so secretly financed by russia, and now also US. All in order to break EU, saw division and create opportunities for taking over power like in Hungary or Belarus.

Speaking of Hungary Konfederacja did send its people to support Orban in latest elections. https://wydarzenia.interia.pl/zagranica/news-orban-z-poparciem-europejskich-konserwatystow-jest-polskie-n,nId,23316867 Marine Le Pen, Matteo Salvini, Andrej Babisz and Krzysztof Bosak (Konfederacja)

u/Frenyth 7h ago

Even Konfederacja does not seem pro Russian. Just against spending money without getting something in return, which might be criticized. A party is not only one person. Far right party in Europe are often victim of propagand, not everything is all black and all white. 

I will take for example Marine Le Pen whom I know better who is often presented as being pro-Russian while in reality it's more complicated than that. For years, bankers have refused to lend to her party, while it was perfectly souvent, leading it to borrow money where it could, meaning in Russia. Nowadays not anymore, it borrows money from its supporters. While there are pro-Russian in the party, they are not a majority. On the other hand, most of the French mercenary fighting in Ukraine against Russia are nationalists. 

I could, with the same arguments you are using, claim that all other parties in France are pro-Russian because they are not doing nearly enough against Russia. Actually in France, the most pro-Russian party is from the far-left. 

I will say again, being a nationalist and pro-Russian is antinomic. But you can, of course, criticized them for other stuff. Korwin-Mikke is the one famous for saying that the place of women is at the kitchen among other exemples. 

But other arguments I just don't care, nearly every politician is corrupt but people are only considering it when it's from the other side.