In Poland, all citizens helping refugees from Ukraine were named "person of the year"
The popular Polish weekly Wprost named all Poles who help refugees from the war in Ukraine as the most influential person in 2022 in Poland.
The leader of the ruling "Law and Justice" (PiS) party, Yaroslav Kaczyński, and the Prime Minister of Poland, Mateusz Morawiecki, are also among the top three among the 50 most influential Poles, Ukrinform reports.
As the editorial office of Wprost explained, the whole world wrote about the huge Polish aid to Ukrainians.
"Poland was able to help thousands of refugees from Ukraine mainly thanks to ordinary Poles. No special laws were needed for this. Therefore, the most influential Poles became those who helped and continue to help refugees from the war in Ukraine. That is, those thanks to whom the system did not collapse, and Poland managed to support the people who fled from the barbarism of the russians," the publication emphasizes.
As the media outlet notes, this war "allowed the Poles to find a Man in themselves"; it also showed the growing influence of individual figures on the Polish political scene.
As Wprost notes, in the rating, the Minister of Defense Mariusz Blaszczak took a high place and, from the 24th place in last year's rating, entered the top ten most influential Poles this year.
The list of the 50 most influential Poles of the year also included Polish generals Waldemar Skzypchak and Roman Polko, who comment daily in the Polish media on the operational situation on the battlefield in Ukraine, as well as publicist Slawomir Sierakowski, the organizer of fundraising for the Polish Bayraktar for Ukraine.
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There may be approximately 3-3.5 million Ukrainians in Poland, of which 1-1.2 million arrived in Poland already after the start of russia's full-scale aggression against Ukraine on February 24.
