One can get the impression that the fresh actions of many groups with patriotic prowess, aimed at popularizing the subject of the Cursed Soldiers, match a bit spontaneous, jarmaric performances, which, on the 1 hand, through the full bazaar envelope, analyse the sphere associated with this concept, and on the other, effort to monopolize (inappropriate?) for the needs of their own circles, parties or associations, the ethos of the Cursed, which belong to the full Nation.
For respective years the uncontrollable fashion "on the Cursed" has become the origin of the dumping of more or little qualitative elements of clothing, flags, vlepek and another promotional materials/objects, which have become a pure business, an component which has lost its popularizing function and has become an involuntary tool which effectively analysed in the eyes of society the phenomenon of anti-communist soldiers.
On the another hand, unfortunately, in many cases we have inept and even harmful attempts at narratives on social media, which are a origin for mockery by the opponents, and in the days of "print screens" they later service as a shock argument for memes and mockery. This is not only about the frequent material errors duplicated by the "copy/ paste" method, but about the mediocre quality, full of emotions and language errors of entries that continually bomb the recipient, effectively discouraging him from delving into the subject.
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It is besides crucial that we stick to the correct name, the “Cursed Soldiers”, which is firmly embedded in historiography, contemporary art and media transmission. Under the name “Cursed Soldiers”, we realize soldiers of patriotic, independence, national and anti-communist formations who were cursed and cursed by authoritative communist propaganda for fighting for Poland without Soviets. On the another hand, the second name - "unbreakable", may mean soldiers of all formation and all country in history, it is besides also ambiguous and inconclusive. In fact, we can see that present the name "unbreakable" refers to politicians, journalists or even social media users, thus blurring the conceptual boundary. Another dangerous procedure is the functioning of both of these names simultaneously, from which the erstwhile - cursed, through its negative sound (as a word) can be marginalized, while the second - unbreakable, positively repudiated first name. In this way, we can make, even unconsciously, according to the connotation of these words, demarcations into these "bad" - cursed and good, "our" unbreakable, or worse, the alignment of heroes with "unbreakable" politicians, which unfortunately we frequently observe. As you can see, seemingly trivial procedures can become the origin of a full redefining of the full phenomenon, and worse, service for political strict purposes, which are designed to fundamentalize the actions of certain parties or to make parasectarian oblast groups.
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I compose about this not to discourage or criticize someone, but to ask for consideration in action, due to the fact that in an era of ubiquitous and easy accessible social media, we are the creators of historical and ideological narrative, and it should be our work to make a message. In the face of the will that the Cursed Soldiers left us, we cannot afford inexpensive clichés, playing on emotions, or untrue mythology of the phenomenon that was the anti-communist underground. First of all, let us remember that the most crucial thing is simply a succinct, reliable and substantive message that is to separate us from opponents of ideas that are based on escalation of emotions, hysteria and manipulation. shortly we will celebrate the National Day of Memory of the Cursed Soldiers in Poland, as all year an army of spitters, lefties and post-communists will stand against the idea, for whom the memory of Polish heroes is inactive a salt in the eye. Then, erstwhile they begin the canon of slander, we defend the Cursed with dignity, calmness, without reacting nervously to the harassment of those who frequently deserve at most a grin of pity.
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Bartosz Tomczak
