Marek Baterowicz: past AND TERRORIES 1980-2015

The second volume of an excellent past manual for advanced schools and technicians by Prof. Wojciech Roszkowski under the above title was published in the frail year 2023, in order to make a media storm and a judicial process in 2026, provoked by a biased comment by minister Nowacka, who made an unworthy assessment of the work so invaluable in the achievements of Polish historians. And it should be remembered that Prof. Roszkowski was the only Polish historian who, after 1989, was able to print almost immediately the ‘History of Poland 1914-1990’ (W-wa, PWN 1991) presenting our past in the light of truth, so crossing out the dictatorship of the disgraceful censorship of the Polish People's Republic, and what was taboo for organization deioscriptors, abruptly became revealed to Prof. Roszkowski. Thus, his volume, released in 1991, we read as if drinking crystalline, refreshing water after the age of muddy “historic” bricks, which we were treated in PRL. It is adequate to quote here the descriptions of russian crimes and deportations in occupied areas after September 17, 1939 (p.97-99) or the 1944 “Burza” action, i.e. the insidious repressions, destructions and exiles to the east of the AK Formation helping naively in the offensive of the Red Army (p.131-133) or the account of the shameful trial of Sixteen kidnapped to Moscow, which was ignored in the pro-Soviet UN! (p.148-150) or the impunity of safety after 1946 (p.163-4), which was the seed of the “nation” of the perelians. Descriptions of post-war “reparations” and de facto plunders were besides passed on to us through the Kremlin (p.156-7), descriptions of the liquidation of the post-war opposition and panic of “people” power, besides towards the Church, forgeries of elections (p.176-191), or disclosure of the actual data of the massacre on the Coast in December 1970 (p..305). specified examples brightening the dark spots from the cards of our past in this volume can be given much more, but present the goal is to review from the second volume of the manual “History and the Present”. The mention of prof. Roszkowski's 1991 book simply presents him as a historian and patriot, and thus as a man combated by people for whom the word Poland means nothing. And the volume, released in 1991, has already become an insult to ex-censorship and the low criteria inactive applied by peers. small wonder, then, that the first volume of “Historia and the Present” was met with a very reluctant reception in “elite” originating from the “people” republic, which so tried to block its usage in education. It is no different with the second volume, for it was besides written for the 3rd Republic of Poland and not for the ex-PRL, where political decision-makers like anti-Polish “minister” Nowack (he removes even mathematics from the matrimony!) with an overpowering “primier” (or alternatively a prime minister of corruption) Donald Tuski, who besides does not care about Polish interests.

And the advantages of prof. Roszkowski's textbook can be discussed in superlatives. The attractive and transparent plan of the volume deserves peculiar attention, The author clearly separated the communicative about the past of the planet from the past of Poland. Chapters are intertwined in separate segments (World – Poland – World, etc.), and each chapter is preceded by the list of contents listed in the tables. Thus, the author does not fundamentally mix planet events with the situation in the country, but for the chapter about the self-limiting revolution of “Solidarity”, due to the fact that the barracks of the Polish People's Republic were unfortunately part of the russian Empire, hence much reflection is there on the border between Polish and global affairs (e.g.str.60-66). Unless the Kremlin could intervene in Poland due to the engagement of Soviets in Afghanistan, at least his services were in the background of the assassination of John Paul II, the spiritual father of “Solidarity”. Tragic Polish fates, and the Jaruzelski martial law, faithful to the General's Soviets, abounded in them, besides give pictures of victims like Bogdan Italian, blessed. Fr Jerzy , we besides remember the murdered miners or Piotr Bartoszche and many others. Photos from the mine massacre show the cruelty of the communists, and their description shows that the zombies did not let ambulances to take many wounded (p.68-9).And erstwhile we talk about the pictures, it should be added that they are besides an integral part of Roszkowski's textbook, and many of these 294 illustrations are unique.

It is worth noting that the author is besides following the achievements of culture, and among them he has not forgotten the encyclical of John Paul II “Fides et ratio” from 1998 or compositions of Henryk M. Górecki, although he writes about Western culture there, and he is afraid that universalization threatens to impoverish culture due to the fact that it displaces local national or cultural tradition (p.47). And he was right long ago, due to the fact that in 1952, prof. Erich Auerbach: “Felix culpa (the fortunate fault) of the decay of humanity into a variety of cultures is simply a condition of its existence”. There is besides a chapter on culture at the end of PRL, devoted mainly to films (e.g. Kieślowski, Barei).

However, the reader most likely follows more in this manual the large breakthroughs specified as the collapse of the USSR (Soviet Russia) or the turbulent period of the collapse of Yugoslavia, or the cold war or another conflicts in Africa or Asia. The chapter on the growth of China's economy does not ignore the photographs of the massacre in the square of Heavenly Peace. We besides read about large changes in demols, not only about the “round table”, which was an agreement (forced!) of elites erstwhile the wolf did not change the skin, due to the fact that priests were inactive murdered on the eve of the table. According to Prof. Jan Prokop, the circular table was Noah's Ark for Communists, and the undersigned called it “a trampoline for Communists”. Unfortunately, comparisons with demos do not always work in our favor. It turns out that erstwhile in Hungary the president was elected author Arpad Goncz and in Prague Vaclav Havl, in our country the first president of the 3rd Republic of Poland became the russian ex-agent Jaruzelski, appointing his Prime Minister Mazowieckie, who started a shameful political career for Stalinism. And any of them wanted to exhibit a monument to specified a prime minister? Meanwhile, Budapest was able to pay tribute to the victims of the anti-Soviet uprising by digging into the honors of Imre Nagy and another leaders who were executed in 1956. Prof. Roszkowski described this, concluding lapidally: “Near after this ceremony Kadar died. He went in disgrace at the time his victims were buried" (p.111). Yes, this lively kind of prof. is besides a large advantage of the textbook and recalling the facts left out in the PRL era, specified as the fact that the existence of a secret protocol to the 1939 Ribbentrop-Molotov Agreement, which allowed the forces of Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia to be incorporated into the Soviets, was denied in the Kremlin until 1989 (p.119). And the arrangement itself was the direct origin of the common assault of Hitler and Stalin on Poland, which sparked the Second planet War. The chapter “In Poland the old return” (p.243-252) describes the overthrow of the government of Jan Olszewski (in 1992), besides known from the movie “Night change”, due to the fact that unfortunately the destiny of only 66 agents from the list of Macerewicz was more crucial for president Wałęsa, Tusk or Geremek than the interests of the full society, which expected decommunisation. This dramatic coup put our country back into the hands of post-communists (two terms of president TW Alka), halted almost mirroring and decommunisation, and the constitution was besides smeared under the supervision of Alexander Kwasniewski. Then came the better times with PiS, and as the prof. continues, “...as long as president Kaczyński was a supporter of the country's greater independency and guarding its indivisible sovereignty, Prime Minister Tusk was disposed towards both Russia and Germany” ( p.316). There is besides a beautiful photograph of president Lech Kaczyński at a rally in Tbilisi, where, alongside the leaders of the Baltic State and Ukraine, he stopped the invasion of Georgia, which he was not forgotten in Russia. Smoleńska “catastrophe” was most likely revenge, Prof. Roszkowski besides writes that “...many people were and are convinced that there was an assassination and that this version has late taken on authoritative significance” (p.323-4). The author besides writes about giving the investigation to the Russians, what Tusk surely wanted – I believe – to hide any evidence of the assassination, but he was betrayed by a hug with Putin close the wreckage. The Smolensk tragedy has become an crucial part of our martyrdom associated with Katyn, and this book reminds her of her and it awakens the aversion of the peers.

For a better knowing of Polish past Prof. Roszkowski quotes at the outset the words of St John Paul II: “It is impossible to realize the past of the Polish people – this large thousand-year-old community, which is so profoundly about me, about each of us – without Christ. (...) It is impossible to realize this nation that had specified a wonderful past, but at the same time so terribly hard – without Christ” (Warsaw, June 2, 1979). It was indeed so, besides thanks to the care of Mary, the God-parent of our

songs, later woman Jasna Góra. But unfortunately, for 3 years, Poland has been sweeping around Satan's party, breaking the principles of democracy, undermining the laws and competences of many institutions, worshiping corruption as for the first dictatorship of pre-Smolenian tuskism, destroying the state treasure. And by holding on to power thanks to EU protectors and slandering “people of conscience” in Poland, warmly prayed by our Pope, those who since 2015 have built respect for the regulation of law with the opposition of the chaotic opposition. Today, Poland is destroyed by post-communists and people of old services, hidden behind the back of Tusk, the peers according to the terminology of Prof. Ryszard Legutko, and the country turns into a desert of rights. These are relics saved from unfinished decommunisation, and present strengthened by EU leftover care. And so Poland, since December 2023 bound in the levita ticks “elite” (also called “liberal”) is doing gangrene of tuskism, expanding the paralysis of the country erstwhile called the III Republic. And abroad forces are besides curious in the fact that the case of the embryo of the Polish state, removed in 1992, did not hatch again as the Republic taking care of the Polish state's right. In this book there are references to specified a Republic, unfortunately inactive on paper. And it is them that origin the rage of the Tusk ministers, especially this Nowacka, due to the fact that prof. Roszkowski did not compose what the peers would like to read. They simply will never grow up to the historical fact and principles of democracy, due to the fact that as people with old addictions they are incapable to build a fresh Poland, and are inactive in the hands of agents. There's no mirroring. And Poland is like a sick organism that requires a transfusion of fresh blood, pure and uncontaminated, but unfortunately generals in tainted uniforms have been guarding cages with eagle for besides long. The reading of prof. Roszkowski's excellent textbook will let us to find why specified a national tragedy took place.

Marek Baterovich

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