Overall number of participants, maybe 50000. For comparison, that is less than 1% of Ukrainians in Poland. Warsaw: few thousands. Kraków: few hundreds. Wrocław: maybe 1000-2000. A lot of props and cosplay, barely any polish signs, mostly in english, ukrainian and wordless. Clearly centrally managed, funded and led by the government.
Some pictures, note that i seen hundreds of them but barely anything that allows for estimating the numbers of participants shows:
Warsaw:
Kraków:
More in next posts, i hit some limit for pictures (edit: it don’t let me post anymore, a pity, since i missed some especially funny pic of Kraków where there was more Belarus fash flags than ukrainian ones).
I was also unfortunate to be in the hearing range of tuned on radio all day yesterday and bloody fuck, even for polish media standard that was festival of lies.
It’s Poland. We have probably the most tight information bubble i ever saw, even in murica propaganda isn’t that uniform. Finding any alternate worldviews to our information oligopy is possible only in the internet. We have the usual political bickering, but when it’s the topic of USA, imperialism, socialism, communism, PRL, Russia etc every single mainstrem media and entire political spectrum says the same things.
In case of Ukraine they made a mistake though, because they allowed the rightwing Wołyń narrations and thus many people do know about banderites and are sceptical why we are suddenly so chummy with them.
In Poland it is explicitly anticommunist and prowestern sign, taken from Churchill and popularised by wałęsa and solidarność.
When I went to Poland, news related to Ukraine and war was omnipresent. Every place with a TV was flashing news about Ukraine, NATO and the war there. From the airport to the hotel, that was the only subject it was talked about.
Your country is beautiful, nonetheless, a shame it was made a vassal anticommunist state
You can’t even take a piss without having Ukraine stuffed into your throat. I once went to bathroom in a shopping mall, i was washing hands afterwards and the mirror suddenly started displaying “Solidarity with Ukraine” and joined polish-UA flags straight in my face (seriously, it was a LCD screen, i guess normally it would display commercials).