Rodacy Kamraci (), or Bracia Kamraci (), is a Polish movement led Wojciech Olszański, Marcin Osadowski and Michał Kosiński, Between 2023 and 2024, it also functioned as a political party; it was delegalized in 2024, but continues activity illegally. In a broader sense, the so-called Ruch Kamracki or Kamractwo, is a movement of an extremely nationalist nature, founded in 2021 by Olszański and Osadowski. The movement itself was founded in Bydgoszcz in 2021, and functions as a network of informal associations that organizes through public rallies and Internet activity.
The movement portrays itself as inspired by the ideas of Roman Dmowski, the interwar ONR, and Polish partisan organisations, such as the Lizard Union and National Armed Forces. At the same time, it has expressed support for the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin, Ivan Serov, national communism of Władysław Gomułka, as well as Bolesław Piasecki and his PAX Association (Endo-Communism), advocating anti-capitalist views. It considers Ukrainians, Jews, and Freemasons the national enemies of Poland, propagates pro-Russian Panslavism, and supports the governments of Vladimir Putin in Russia and Alexander Lukashenko in Belarus. Rodacy Kamraci espouse an eclectic combination of Polish nationalism and communism or socialism, and have been variously described as neofascist, Endocommunist, Chamo-Communist, or national communist.
Both the party and its movement have aroused controversy due to their views and association with acts of violence, organized crime and suspicions of espionage for Russia. In addition, as the promotion of totalitarian ideologies is prohibited by Polish law, there had been several legal attempts to ban the party, which ultimately succeeded in 2024. The movement became recognizable in 2021 due to its anti-vaccine activism, and surged in popularity in 2025, when an MP of the ruling Civic Coalition Roman Giertych accused it of rigging the 2025 Polish presidential election; moreover, its leaders were interviewed by mainstream news channel Kanał Zero later that year, sparking controversy given the interviewer's failure to control their extremist rhetoric; the channel partially censored the interview and included post-interview "fact-checking" commentary.
History Origins The main leader and founder of Rodacy Kamraci is Wojciech Olszański, known under the nickname "Lizard" () based on the WW2 Lizard Union that he identifies with. Born in 1960, he was deeply impressed by his neighbour, a former soldier of the independence underground, as well as Bolesław Piasecki, the leader of the PAX Association during the Polish People's Republic and of ONR Falanga before WW2. Olszański started wearing Falanga-like uniforms in the 1980s.
In 2000s and early 2010s, Olszański was politically active in the Real Politics Union and then the Congress of the New Right. He campaigned for the no vote in the 2003 Polish European Union membership referendum. In the 2000s, Olszański began to gain popularity through appearing on the YouTube channels of journalist Piotra Korczarowski and Eugeniusz Sendecki. Sendecki, an anti-vaccine doctor, former activist of the League of Polish Families, had become popular thanks to his channel promoting antisemitic, national communist, and fundamentalist Catholic figures and content. Sendecki initially paid Olszański to popularize his events, given his uniform and a cap adorned with the eagle and Szczerbiec. However, since 2010 Olszański started pursuing his own activity, first regarding the Smolensk air disaster, and protesting against American attempts to extract shale gas in Poland. He was deeply affected by the Smolensk air disaster and started advocating reconciliation with the Russian Federation since.
After meeting Marcin Osadowski (known as "Ludwiczek"), Olszański started his streaming activity on YouTube and other social media in 2016. Their channel became known as Niezależna Polska TV (NPTV), and became viral for statements made by Olszański and Osadowski when answering their viewers' phone calls. Later in 2016, during a protest in Warsaw, Olszański approached journalist Jan Bodakowski and volunteered for an interview; Bodakowski agreed, and the interview is considered to have made Olszański famous online for the first time. Between 2017 and 2018, political commentator and YouTuber Damian Bieńko known for exploring Polish far-right and far-left movements made over 600 videos featuring Olszański; he described Olszański as an Endocommunist.
In 2018, Olszański and Osadowski founded a political association named Polish National Front () in 2018, which postulated withdrawal from the European Union, eviction of immigrants from Poland, and rapprochement with Russia. The association's goal was to unite radical nationalists of various political backgrounds and environments under a single banner. It participated in the 2018 Polish local elections, where it fielded Dorota Maksymowicz-Czapkowska as a candidate for the Mayor of Gdańsk. Maksymowicz-Czapkowska held "national-patriotic" views, and spoke against the privatization of the Krupiński Coal Mine, and advocated restricting immigration, reducing air pollution, eliminating "gender ideology" from schools and kindergartners, and ending the discrimination of unvaccinated children. She won 1427 votes, which amounted to 0.68% of the popular vote. In 2020, Olszański's wife, Agnieszka Fatyga, died, leading him to embrace anti-vaccine causes. He blamed the medical procedures implemented during the COVID-19 pandemic for his wife's death. Olszański had become much more radical after his wife anyone, and would repeatedly state that he "does not care about anything anymore".
Olszański argued that the SARS-CoV-2 virus either does not exist or is controlled by the US military, He also argued that common flu is more dangerous than COVID-19, claiming that the former has a higher mortality rate. In 2021, Olszański and Osadowski met the Bydgoszcz Association of Kamractwo Rodaków (, SBKR) founded by Michał Kosiński, which marked the beginning of Rodacy Kamraci. The popularity and recognizabiliy of the movement had skyrocketed thanks to its anti-vaccine postulates. Denouncing the pandemic as a "big scam of Big Pharma", Rodacy Kamraci earned 4 million PLN from donations alone between 2020 and 2022. In the 2020 Polish presidential election, Olszański tried to register as a candidate, but was unable to gather the necessary 100,000 signatures in order to appear on the ballot.
Foundation Rodacy Kamraci existed since early 2021 as a network of regional associations, and the Bydgoskie Kamractwo Rodaków was joined by other associations such as Krakowscy Rodacy Kamraci, with the main organisation itself founded in Bydgoszcz in 2021 after a rally in the Old Market Square. Olszański led the rally and laid out an ideological manifesto of the movement. He praised the national socialist system of the Third Reich, propagated antisemitism, and expressed sympathy for Alexander Lukashenko. He also declared himself in favor of fascism, nationalism, and stated that he is a Stalinist, expressing his admiration for Ivan Serov. Rodacy Kamraci became associated with the leadership figures of Zmiana such as Maciej Poręba, who together with the movement had defended Stalin and the monuments of Soviet generals such as Ivan Chernyakhovsky in Poland. Rodacy Kamraci then started building up membership networks across Poland, and was reported to have amassed a notable following within the Polish diaspora in the Netherlands.
The movement gathered numerous local nationalist and paramilitary groups under the banner of Rodacy Kamraci, including Free Wolves of Podlasie (), Free Wolves of Warsaw (), Sea Wolves from the Coast (), Wolves of the Heart of Poland () from Łódź, Silesian Resistance Movement (), Patriotic Movement ‘Front’ () from Częstochowa, Grunwald Association () from Wrocław, National Guard () from Szczecin, Sovereigns () from Grudziądz, Conscious () from Piotrków Trybunalski, and Independents () from Chojnice. The presence of the "wolf" movements in Rodacy Kamraci's coalition led to the wolf becoming one of the symbols of the movement. These groups denounced the United Right as "traitors of Poland", and denounced the opposition to United Right as Jews.
Registration and delegalization Since 2022, Olszański had been attempting to register a party based on the informal Kamractwo movement that he has been leading. On 19 October 2022, he filed an official request to register a political party under a name Partia Kamracka. At the beginning of 2023, he announced that the party would be registered ahead of the 2023 Polish parliamentary election. The party was eventually registered on June 30, 2023. The prosecutor's office filed a complaint against the court's decision to register the party with the aim of banning it in connection with the controversy surrounding the extremist views expressed by the group. The party announced it would field its candidates in the 2023 parliamentary elections, but ultimately failed to register their lists in any of the districts due to organizational problems, with the candidates failing to achieve any successes in local level elections.
In the 2024 Polish local elections, Rodacy Kamraci did not manage to register a nationwide electoral committee to contest the elections. However, it had registered two local electoral committees, Rodacy Kamraci Gdynia, and Kamraci for Wrocław, which Rodacy Kamraci promoted on its social media. Rodacy Kamraci Gdynia fielded candidates for the , winning 0.63% of the popular vote, while Kamraci for Wrocław contested the election for the Wrocław City Council and captured 0.58% of the popular vote. Neither won any seats. In the same election, Rodacy Kamraci were also a member of the National Action (), a nationwide coalition of Confederation of the Polish Crown, There is One Poland, Real Politics Union, Safe Poland, Dmowski Club and Polish Thought Club in the Łódź Voivodeship, and the Roman Dmowski's National Party. It won 9,231 votes, which amounted to 0.06% of the popular vote, but did not gain any seat.
Rodacy Kamraci registered an electoral committee in the 2024 European Parliament election in Poland, but were unable to field any candidates. Ultimately, they approved the candidacy of Lucyna Kulińska, a professor of the Jagiellonian University known for her anti-Ukrainian views, who contested the election as a candidate of Bezpartyjni Samorządowcy.
The party did not submit its financial report for 2023, therefore the National Electoral Commission was obliged to submit an application to the District Court in Warsaw for its deregistration, which occurred on November 18, 2024. Despite this, the party continued its activity illegally, reportedly becoming a part of the political environment of Grzegorz Braun. In December 2025, Kamraci appeared in support of Braun at his trial for using fire extinguisher to put out Hanukkah candles in the Sejm and disrupting the lecture of Jan Grabowski, whom Olszański denounced as a "Jewish libeler".
Onet noted an apparent contradiction between Braun and Rodacy Kamraci given the latter's defense of the Polish communist regime and its attempts to suppress 1980s protests. When asked about the presence of Rodacy Kamraci in their environment, a politician from Braun's party, the Confederation of the Polish Crown, dismissed it by stating that "the most important thing is that the leftists get their asses kicked". According to Gazeta Wyborcza, by 2026 the leader of Rodacy Kamraci, Olszański, has become Braun's main supporter. In February 2026, Braun doubled down on cooperation with Rodacy Kamraci, declaring that they are now "an integral part of the Broad fire extinguisher front".