In the latest episode “Kraków–Warsaw, a common cause” Marcin Celiński and Witold Bereś with surgical irony take apart contemporary Polish politics, media absurdities and historical abuses. From Kraków's method infirmity, through the media ambitions of Grzegorz Braun, to the historical fantasies of the president of the IPN Karol Nawrocki – the conversation turns into a brilliant, sometimes bitter comment about a country that inactive stumbles over its own myths.
Krakow Again Without a Voice — A Tradition No 1 Ordered
The program starts with a scene that has become almost a ritual: Kraków has no sound. Berez moves his lips, Celinski tries to read lips, realists fight for all decibel. “Deep Krakowism” — as they gag — is simply a state where technology loses to the local climate and the fibre optics are not always stronger than the spirit of the city.
This autoironia builds the speech of the full conversation: light, but filled with awareness that even tiny things in Poland can become a metaphor of greater chaos.
Kraków-Warsaw, a common cause! - Witold Bereś and Marcin Celiński
Braun in Jaruzelska — erstwhile utmost gets soft light
One of the main themes is Grzegorz Braun's performance with Monika Jaruzelska. The leaders do not hold outrage:
- not due to the fact that Braun says extremist things — it's predictable,
- but due to the fact that he gets space without a critical counterpoint.
Celiński recalls that talking to utmost policy requires hard moderation, not “an interview with a pop star that must not be offended due to the fact that it will not come again”. Beres adds that the fact that Braun inactive has no serious problems with the justice strategy is more evidence of the weakness of the state than of his innocence.
In the background, the question is: do media that invitation extremes to scope become an involuntary tool?
Kraków-Warsaw, a common cause! - Witold Bereś and Marcin Celiński
Nawrocks and Chrobry Crown — past as a Political Tool
Another hero of the conversation is erstwhile president of the IPN Karol Nawrocki, who gave a speech full of historical simplifications and anti-German allusions during the celebrations of the Wielkopolska Uprising.
Celiński and Berez points out:
- Chrobry's coronation was not a symbol of the “defence of the western border”,
- Kulturkampf was not aimed at Poles, but at the Catholic Church throughout Germany,
- the comparison of Poles to “Iroquois from the East” had a very different meaning in the 18th to 19th centuries than Nawrocki suggests.
The strongest thesis falls directly:
It is simply a return to the Gomulk propaganda in which Germany is the enemy and Russia is invisible.
Russian assets merge over divisions
There is besides a wider diagnosis in the conversation: during the war in Ukraine, pro-Russian environments — whether on the far right or in the post-communist left — begin to talk with 1 voice. The leaders inform that this is simply a process to observe and document, due to the fact that its consequences may be serious.
Bitter finale: a communicative that comes back erstwhile you weaken
The program ends with archival material from the Polish People's Republic on customs and borders — nostalgic, but embroidered with irony. It is simply a reminder that Poland already erstwhile lived in a planet of absurds, control and propaganda. And that any mechanisms return faster than we would like to admit.
