Comment: Below are a few excerpts from a Polish article about the fate of some of the Ukrainians fleeing the trouble in Ukraine and arriving in Poland, a part of the "heavenly" EU that the Maidanites wanted so much to be a part of, only to find that they are often despised and treated like slaves.
Translated by J.Hawk
A Pole locked up two Ukrainian women in the basement. He let them out after two weeks, but they didn't want to talk about it. "Didn't you go to the police?"—I ask. "But we have no rights here," they answer.
You stand by the road and wait for a Pole. On Sunday, in the frost, from 5-6 in the morning. Maybe today a Pole will wake up thinking "I don't have a pressed shirt" or "why pay for a worker if I don't have to pay?" Then he'll get in the car and come get a Ukrainian girl: to paint walls, load coal, assemble scaffolding. He'll pay 7 and sometimes even 20 zlotys per hour. At the end of the day he may pay less than promised, or not pay at all. But that's better than working for a month and getting paid nothing.
Comment: One Euro is about 4.13 Polish Zloty
I drive to the illegal labor market in Piaseczno. Ukrainians fondly call it "the little market"; Poles, more directly, the "slave market."It's as bad as that, and even worse. Ukrainians have been a fixture on Poland's "labor market" for many years, but now there are far more of them, and they are chasing fewer jobs. And the official-level "sympathy" for the Maidan does not translate into tolerance toward Poland's gastarbeiters, many of whom are acquiring radical anti-Polish attitudes as a result of the humiliating treatment they receive in Poland.
Roksana: "A week ago a young man took a woman who used to pick apples for him into his car. They drive off, but then I see the car stops and she jumps out crying. What happened, I asked. She replies—he told me I'm taking you not to pick apples but for loving. But she was 60 years old!"
A few women nod their heads. Olena: "When I first came here, I stood over there, by the bushes because I didn't know anyone. Others looked at me funny and whispered among themselves. One finally came up and said, stand closer to us. Here they wait for sex."
Gala: "A Pole took me and a friend to paint in Konstancin. A big house, tall fence. We entered the garden and are painting, but he asked me to change the bed for him. So I enter into his bedroom and then he approaches me from behind and starts to grope me. I ran out screaming, the two of us wanted to run away, but the gate was closed. What were we to do? We kept on painting.
Olena: "Poroshenko ought to come and see this. Let him see how Ukrainian emigres live... it's easier during the summer. A farmer pays 7zl per hour or by kilo, then one can earn as much as 100zl in a day. Sometimes he'll offer work for several weeks, even offers housing and food. But the work is hard."
Anna: "I managed to pick radishes for 6 days. They paid 3.5zl per box. In each box 50 bunches of radishes, 12 radishes per bunch. I was not used to such hard work. I filled 12 boxes in 12 hours, but some women filled as many as 30. I paid 5zl per day for housing. You work close to the ground, it's as cold as in Siberia. If it rains, you sit in the mud the whole day."
Kateryna: "Picking beets was like a concentration camp. We could not stand up because then supposedly you slow down. We could not talk, only use sign language. One sandwich and a cup of tea for dinner. That was all."
Larissa: "Never admit to the Poles that you can make pierogi! They won't leave you alone, you have to feed them all the time. It's worse than cleaning. I spent an entire day making pierogi, and they didn't even invite me to eat with them."
Olga: "I recently quit after one day. There were three reasons. The lady of the house wanted a copy of my passport. That never happened before. Two, all families encouraged me to eat whatever food is on the table. So I took an apple and she told me not to do it without asking. Three, she told me not to touch the dishes in the sink because she fills the dishwasher herself. So I drank my coffee and put it in the sink, and she yelled at me for that too. I thought, what do I need this for? I suffered my share in life, I have a sense of self-worth. Now I tell all employers I'll work for only 8 hours per day. Like a white person."
1. Please, don't treat too seriously ANY articles from "Gazeta Wyborcza". Which - in fact - is well-known as "jewish newspaper for Poles". They are spreading Ukrainian agenda, and the article seems to be a part this. Whether the stories described there are true, or not - you can't be sure, since it is "Gazeta Wyborcza" (if you still don't know, what I mean: it's kind of polish "Foxnews").
2. "many of whom are acquiring radical anti-Polish attitudes as a result of the humiliating treatment they receive in Poland" - no, they are anti-Polish since God-knows-when. They come here being anti-Polish, and they leave (I hope, they leave...) being anti-Polish regardless of the treatment. They are widely known as the people who don't know any gratitude, and they assume, that they "are entitled" to job, money etc. from Poles.
3. One example: mere than FIFTEEN THOUSAND of Ukrainian students are learning in Poland, being paid by Polish taxpayers(!). Are they grateful? No, they scream: "give us more money!" ( [Link] ). Why they want support from Poles, not from Ukrainian government, neither from rich Ukrainian oligarchs?
4. They are parading on polish soil with UPA banners, and sometimes they openly say: "how we hate Poland! We want to exploit you!" ( [Link] ).
5. Take all these Ukrainians to your own country, if you regret them that much. We're fed up with their presence here in Poland - which they hate so much, although they still are coming here with their hate and their demandings.
6. We have serious problem with persons in polish government, who have Ukrainian origins - e.g. minister of defense Siemoniak, minister of foreign affairs Schetyna and others. They are "party of war with Russia", and they want us to be involved in every action against Russia - in UKRAINE'S INTEREST. We, Poles, aren't interested in war with Russia. The Ukrainian lobby in Poland - yes, unfortunately there's something like that in Poland - since several years always directs polish policy into confronting Russia.