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The book of prof. of doctrine Richard Leguta (OJ) – “Essay on the Polish soul” (Kraków, OMP, 2008) – was an event in the field of historical-political analyses published in the Vistula basin. This is surely a book that cannot be put on the shelf.

In a customs review, Józef Darski ( vide „Gazeta Polska”, 26 November 2008 ) highlighted the chief thesis of this book. This author proves that POlska is inhabited by 2 nations: Poles, who constitute a persecuted and marginalized national minority, and the prevailing majority of Peerelczyks – a nation conceived during the period of communism and bred in mature form in already 3rd Poland.

This diagnosis cannot be denied right, and the dictatorship of the Peerelczyks was greatly helped by the overthrow of the Olszewski government in 1992, due to the fact that the embryo of the Polish state, which would make after the mirroring and decommunisation, was removed. And how society was shaped during the period of the Polish People's Republic Prof. Legutko presents in respective chapters, preceding the conclusion on the emergence of this people of Peerel. It is worth following the author's reflections from the very beginning. The first conviction of the book draws attention to the crucial and tragic image of the situation of the country after the war: “Poland, as I have known and in which I have lived since my birth, is Poland of broken continuity”. Of course, it is about breaking the continuity in the sense of a sense of history, tradition and besides state institutions. For those imposed by the communists were (and are still) the caricature of the institutions. For example, the courts and prosecutors in the 3rd Poland service more frequently to defend criminals than to punish them. The "iurocracy" or power of peer-profile judges, alternatively than democracy ("Arcana", 2008 No.83, p.24), is not a regulation of law. Indeed, Stalinism has led to the demolition of the justice strategy and we cannot leave this collapse even now due to the fact that the old treaty blocks improvement by forcing presidential vetoes. Let us go back to the book, and in it Legutko does not overlook the years of occupation: “The dramatic break-up began the outbreak of planet War II, while it was completed by the introduction of communism.” And so it was, but the return to democracy and tradition would have been possible if it had not been for the russian regulation on our lands in the post-Yaltan era. We know this very well, besides seldom is reminded by the fact – and Legutko does so – that for seventy years Poles have been almost exclusively the subject, and to a tiny degree the subject of past (p.8). In the second chapter “Cataclysm” besides reminds Legutko that after the war half of Poland was cut off, and the people surviving there were murdered, deported or enslaved. He writes: “The procedure for amputation was accompanied by a procedure of equally giant transplantation” (p.10). And we know that, and yet we must remind fresh generations. And Prof. Legutko does not wrap facts in cotton, he emphasizes, for example, that "Poland has become a quadruple victim: German aggression, communist enslavement, social demolition and territorial partition" (p.10).

Prof. Legutko seems to have omitted russian aggression here, which was possibly more tragic than German ones, due to the fact that the Soviets immediately exported almost 2 million Poles to Sibir, and the gehenna of these people exceeds all ideas. The scale of genocide in Lviv and many towns occupied by the Red Army was besides appalling. However, I think that the author of this aggression of Soviets and their crimes placed in the “territorial partition” of our border lands, the shame of Yalta. He powerfully stresses that Poland has become a victim of rape, cruel and repeated. He besides quotes Mikołajczyk's book Rape on Poland. And in connection with reflections on the failure of the ends, Vilnius and Lviv, Legutko writes rather rightly that the symbolic homeland of Poles is now outside the present geographical homeland (p.12).

Analyzing the phases of enslavement (from physical annihilation to humiliation in submission) the author emphasizes that power has never reached the highest form of submission or love for the large Brother. This was besides impossible for historical reasons, due to the fact that behind the political “greatness” of the Soviets there was a cultural void, and erstwhile in the 16th century Poland boasted of the Golden Age Russia only entered the arena of history, in addition to the fumes of Ivan the Terrible. The Russian Bible was published in Poland in 1580, as there had not yet been a printer in Moscow 130 years after Gutenberg's invention. Even an indoctrinate citizen of the Polish People's Republic of Poland, sometimes referred to as "homo sovieticus", remembered this superiority of national culture. The undersigned did not accept this false term, correcting it in the 1990s and proposing the word ‘homo peereliensis’. Similarly, prof. Legutko sees this, so in the following chapters, the concept of Peerelczyk will appear, and it is appropriate in relation to the political context of the period. However, from this category of citizens will appear after 1989 this "nation" (as if alternative!) of the Peerelczyks, and his breeding was supported by the provisions of the circular table, including the trend of a thick line, as well as fanatical opposition to mirroring and decommunisation, fueled with a peculiar animus in Michnik's camp and in the pages of the "Wszystko Tygodnik", besides in the media subject to erstwhile services

In the reflections of Leguta, the 5th chapter entitled “Brubber and Cham” takes place, in which the communist taking power over Poland was just that bastard and thug, formed in addition in the russian system, which was installed in our home with force and panic and besides with the blessing of Yalta. He continues to compose about the "diabolical efficiency of communists", but it seems to be euphemism given the cruelty of methods, losses among the combatants, emigration or fatigue of the nation's war. Despite these circumstances, the opposition of the public against the governments of the PPR lasted respective years, which shows gloriously the Polish assessment of communism, especially “made in USSR”. Legutko writes about the panic of these years, he besides emphasizes that the fresh power introduced a general strategy and barbarization of life. It besides reflected in the language, vulgarly littered and in customs, which we frequently see in the infamous feuds in the Sejm. And the Peerel nomenclature felt no connection to Polish heritage and culture. In the political void, created after years of terror, people from the margins entered. Thus, the scum and thugs who were only a social margin before the war created government, state institutions and force in the period of the Polish People's Republic. There are many testimonies about the helplessness of the people of those years, not even in the theatre to remind Mrożek's “Tango”. The master of the house, intelligent in all inch, must accept an invitation to dance from Edek, a typical simpleton-cham who dictates conditions in fresh times. Has something changed in the IIIRP? most likely just that present it is already a layer of "chamas educated" even in the Moscow school of MGiMO (and sometimes thanks to Fulbright Foundation!) about the agent's pedigree, but - as the eavesdrops show - they inactive manipulate Poland! For specified ministers, the concept of homeland and state (an crucial reflection by Major Blicharski) does not overlap if even this state existed. And independency is besides a abroad expression for these ministers, selected from the "ethnic mass", not from the Polish nation, which, according to the major, accounts for only 5 to 10% of this cultural substance. Major Blicharski's remarks as if confirmed the sad conclusion of Prof. Legutka about the dominance of Peerelczyks over Poles, the dominance forced by the force and efficiency of the post-communist arrangement more than the end of the sense of patriotism, so attacked by michnikowska.

Marek Baterovich