The enormous nationalist march in Poland over the weekend has added new fuel to a debate over strategy and tactics going on in nationalist circles:

“BERLIN — There are few countries that suffered as much under the Nazis as Poland did during World War II. And yet, more than 70 years later, it has become a center on the continent for the far right — and liberal critics say the government isn’t doing anything about it. In fact, they say, the Polish far right feels increasingly emboldened by what it perceives as governmental recognition. On Saturday, an estimated 60,000 people marched alongside ultranationalists and Nazis to mark the 99th anniversary of Polish independence. As my colleague Avi Selk summarized, some of the protesters carried banners and held up signs that had a clear far-right extremist message: “Clean Blood,” as seen by Politico. “Pray for an Islamic Holocaust,” per CNN. …”

Here is what is so interesting:

1.) This annual march in Poland was started in 2009 by two groups, National Radical Camp and All-Polish Youth, and ballooned from a few hundred people into tens of thousands.

2.) National Radical Camp and All-Polish Youth are ultra-nationalist groups. The former can even be described as fascist or White Nationalists. They wear armbands and brownshirts. They engage in Roman salutes. They use Celtic crosses and talk about White pride. Many of them have shaved heads. They’ve even burned an effigy of an Orthodox Jew.

So, these are the guys who started and organized the big nationalist march in Poland (National Radical Camp) ? pic.twitter.com/3tYKt9qwUX — Hunter Wallace (@occdissent) November 12, 2017

Not bad for a bunch of 1980s Neo-Nazi LARPers ? pic.twitter.com/Al9d0oKX0O — Hunter Wallace (@occdissent) November 12, 2017

3.) In addition to the armbands, National Radical Camp uses its own organizational flag.

Rz?d rezygnuje m.in. z wizerunku Ostrej Bramy w paszportach. Wilno i Lwów to element naszej to?samo?ci, my jej nie sprzedamy#PolskieWilno pic.twitter.com/JyJP8SzfNu — ONR (@1934ONR) September 11, 2017

4.) National Radical Camp has women at its demonstrations.

Pomimo niesprzyjaj?cej pogody nasze dzia?aczki bior? udzia? w zbiórce "Przywracamy pami?? o ?o?nierzach Wykl?tych" ? pic.twitter.com/QFkkGvZSqp — ONR Brygada Lubelska (@ONRLublin) November 1, 2017

5.) It is an explicitly Christian group. The slogan for this march was “We want God.”

6.) ONR is very fond of dressing in black.

W Dublinie trwa zjazd dzia?aczy #ONR za granic?. S? cz?onkowie z Niemiec, Anglii i Irlandii pic.twitter.com/dPTJGslPgh — ONR (@1934ONR) October 7, 2017

W ?odzi odby?y si? manewry Plutonu ?ódzkiego SMN pic.twitter.com/zVsrQvleis — ONR Brygada ?ódzka (@onrlodz) November 5, 2017

Nieliczna grupka prowokacyjna ?rodowiska Ubywateli RP zablokowana przez OeNeRowców #RecePreczOdPolski pic.twitter.com/vJq8190rCG — ONR (@1934ONR) July 26, 2017

7.) In their propaganda videos, ONR and All-Polish Youth members are sometimes dressed in plain clothes.

@onrlodz ONR Piotrków Trybunalski czyta poezj? narodow? w centrum miasta pic.twitter.com/BBTX6UeLLn — ONR (@1934ONR) August 2, 2017

ONR propaganda videohttps://t.co/X3ZVwHXtuw — Hunter Wallace (@occdissent) November 12, 2017

Another ONR videohttps://t.co/JlRFxgaET7 — Hunter Wallace (@occdissent) November 12, 2017

8.) There are Boomers who are members:

9.) We see fat people who are members:

Brygada Opolska i ?ódzka uczestniczy?y w marszu antyimigranckim w Namys?owie pic.twitter.com/Q039HqqG5H — ONR (@1934ONR) September 5, 2017

10.) Finally, we see an aesthetic that is very similar to other Hard Right groups in Europe like Golden Dawn. The red flares have been used in Greece for years.

The moral of the story: ONR and All-Polish Youth are spearheading this sea change as a cultural vanguard. They were surrounded by a sea of normies on Poland’s Independence Day. The Polish government was also incapable of condemning the march because the Law and Justice Party is in power in Poland and nationalism has reached a critical mass there.

Poland hasn’t embraced fascism or Neo-Nazism so much as the Polish government is indifferent to the existence and rising influence of these groups. You don’t see the cucking, panicking and disavowing like we see in the United States, the UK or Germany. The average Polish patriot is like, “yeah, some of these guys are fascists, but so what? I don’t want Jews and Muslims in my country.”

Note: Matt Parrott has only scratched the surface of the differences between Poland and the United States. Poland is an ethnically homogeneous country of 38 million people packed into an area about the size of Arkansas and Missouri. It suffered the catastrophes of WW1, WW2 and the Cold War. It has about 3,000 Jews and its poverty and isolation has insulated it from the dissolving effects of Western liberal democracy and capitalism. Still, there is a lot of food for thought here.