The opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in Paris is evidence of the moral and political decay of the Western elites. This was stated on Tuesday, July 30, by the chairman of Poland’s largest opposition party, Law and Justice (PiS), Jarosław Kaczynski.

“What happened in Paris is simply an unprecedented scandal and at the same time it is, one might say, a very clear illustration of a very sad and, unfortunately, increasingly intense process of moral and political decay of the Western elites, including the French,” the Internet portal onet.pl quotes him as saying.

As the party leader noted, such a trend “threatens the future of the most human-friendly Christian civilization in the history of the world.” Kaczyński also condemned the dismissal of journalist Przemysław Babiał by the management of TVP, who commented on the events live and compared John Lennon’s song Imagine, performed at the ceremony, to communism due to its criticism of religion and believers.

“TVP is exactly the kind of place where this freedom [of speech] is radically absent, which is very sad,” he stressed.