Participants at the weekend gathering of Law and Justice (PiS) posed for photos and threw darts at a board decorated with Germany’s colors and a caricature of a red devil, according to a video published by daily Fakt.
The attraction quickly circulated online, drawing accusations of fanning anti-German sentiment.
PiS lawmaker Jan Mosiński was among those photographed with the game. He told the newspaper that by opening to Germany’s economy, Poland risked becoming a source of “cheap labor.”
The episode echoed the party’s broader message accusing the ruling party Civic Coalition (KO) of cultivating overly close—“subservient,” in PiS’s phrasing—ties with Berlin.
In a speech at the event, PiS leader Kaczyński warned against what he called a “German-Brussels” concept that would create a “hegemonic state.”
He said the post-World War Two order was being steered toward a “great victory for Germany” and “something like a new empire.”
According to Kaczyński, a nation lacking its own political decision center cannot “manage its interests” or expect others to do so on its behalf.
He alleged that “Germany wants to take our state,” adding that “the French together with them—I don’t know why, but yes. European bureaucracy, it’s burning to do this.”
Prime Minister Donald Tusk responded with scorn, saying Kaczyński was “either a madman or a Russian agent.”
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Source: Polskie Radio 24, Fakt