Poland celebrates victories over Russia

A gleeful Poland has beaten Russia in the Volleyball World Championship game on November 28 in Japan, with a score of 3:2. Victories against the Soviet Union were already something big in communist times, recalls journalist Maciej Rybinski, with a note of irony. "Polish volleyball players give us spiritual strength when they beat Russia. Sport competitions against Russians, whether members of the Soviet Union or actually Russian citizens, always had a transcendental quality. To parody Clausewitz, games pitting Poles against Russians were an extension of politics, using other means. During the days of the People's Republic, a victory against the Soviets was at the same time a triumph over the ideology. Today, in the days of freedom and of market economy, it means beating the Russian energy company Gazprom."

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