RECIDY OF STALINISM IN POLISH RADIUM IN LIQUIDATION

I can't perceive to the Polish Radio. After his capture by batters Donald Tusk and Bartłomiej Sienkiewicz, made on the very nearly forty-second anniversary of the introduction of the martial law, it was fulfilled with a message disproportionately more toxic than the evil years of the Polish-Jaruzel war known to me.

The century of Polish Radio should be celebrated, which in its past had many reasons for large glory. The first “display of Poland in the ether” should be considered to be the information issued in 1918 from Warsaw about Poland regaining independency and rebuilding our state. However, this fact cannot be included in the past of radio broadcasting. The first radio station broadcasting broadcasts received by radio listeners did not appear until 1920 in the United States. Shortly thereafter, its Radio was launched by Bolshevik Russia, large Britain and Germany, which in 1924 besides earned a radio and broadcasting centre in Wrocław. Poland did not lag far behind – in the beginning of 1925 experimental broadcasts began to be broadcast in Warsaw and since 1926 regular regular broadcasts. Since Berlin and Wroclaw transmitters covered Wielkopolska and Silesia, Polish broadcasts were rapidly created, thanks to which Polish broadcasts could be heard even in western Germany. Almost from the very beginning, the scope of regional radio stations in Poland was besides powerful. For example, Polish Radio Lviv could be successfully listened to throughout Lower Silesia. Throughout the interwar period, Radio Lwów besides led a sharp polemic with from the beginning very aggressive and always utmost anti-Polish Breslauer Rundfung. “The Wedding of Lviv Wave” was constantly mocking almost continuously broadcast from above Oder attacks on everything Polish. A powerful chord for the Polish radio was the construction in 1931 of 2 radio masts in Warsaw's Rashina. Both were 280 metres advanced and broadcasting with 120 kW power until their demolition during the September run were the strongest broadcasting station in Europe. The issue quality was accompanied by programme quality. another regional stations and the second nationwide programme of Polish Radio were created. Since Polish broadcasts could be listened to throughout the continent, Polish piano concerts, among others, were very popular. respective large abroad stations, including the BBC, requested the right to transmit them on their antennas.

Cooperation with the British continued even in the years of PRL -u. The programme, specialized in elite repertoire, the 4th and second Polish Radios exchanged their broadcasts for concerts in London's Saint Martin in the Fields and the large conductor Nehil Mariner became almost a regular guest of Polish radio listeners. In turn, the massness of listening by Polish youth Radio Luxemburg forced communist decision-makers to make a Polish program with a large dose of Western youth music. This is how the 3rd Programme of Polish Radio was created, which was listened to not only in Poland, but besides in respective another "demoludes". The large accomplishment of Polish radio was the erection of the radio mast in Gąbin in 1974. Until his disaster in 1991, it was the highest, for it was over 646 metres tall, a building of the world. Although it besides served military purposes, e.g. submarine radio stations, it allowed to receive Polish broadcasts even in northern Africa and in east Siberia.

Of course – in communist times communist propaganda reigned in Polish Radio. Until 1980, regular broadcasts were specified as “This is the One” in which Western stone hits intertwined with stories of social pathologies, exploitation of the planet of work, unemployment, colossal reinforcements and another disasters, as being essential to life in Western Europe and the USA. The content of radio broadcasts radically changed after the strikes of August 1980 and the creation of the Solidarity Union. Since then, there has been no "This is the One", although the propaganda message did not lack. However, there were cycles of broadcasts specified that I did not believe my own ears at the time. From the columns of Ewa Szumańska I learned, for example, about life in her well-known United States. And that was a real shock to me then. due to the fact that it was from Radio Wrocław Ewa Szumańska who spoke to the microphone that I learned at the time that the least earning American individual for his proletarian wage is able to buy at least respective times more than for his own – both my parents. In 1981, Polish Radio besides aired a series of broadcasts entitled “Days of the Fighting Capital”, telling about all subsequent day of the Warsaw Uprising. The content of these broadcasts was so excellent that a fewer years later – in a akin cycle they were aired by the Polish Radio Free Europe.

However, the post-August ‘renewal’ did not last long. After 13th of July 1981, all decent journalists flew out of Polish Radio. And immediately after the massacres in the mines Uncle and Manifesto Lipcowy their place was replaced by people like Monika Olejnik – by education, as in this case, zootechnical. However, the most crucial thing was that these were the children of the advanced communist SB officers.

In 2016, Polish Radio yet achieved an optimal state, in which the main 4 programmes met circumstantial programme objectives. The most popular Program First – had the most powerful range, could be listened to even in the farthest parts of Europe and even further. 2 – the remainder of the programme intended to advance “a culture from the advanced shelf”. The 3 continued the tradition of the youth and amusement station while alternatively of the 4th Programme the Polish Radio 24 began broadcasting. And the last channel of Polish public broadcasting proved to be the most valuable news. In addition to news services and publications on a good level, cyclical broadcasts devoted to e.g. the past of the 20th century appeared. specified a format met with a large interest of the listeners, and it was to the top degree that it meant that the Polish public radiophony – powerfully went up in terms of quality and reach. In grim December 2023 all of this was brutally wasted. All good journalists were expelled from work. Since then, all inclusion of Polish Radio 24 must bring panic and black despair. I perfectly remember Polish Radio from the darkest months of martial law and it does not give me the slightest uncertainty that the propaganda of the time compared to the 1 that present aired on PR 24 was something that was erstwhile called the words "Michaelki", "Little Miki", "Fear on Lachy". Spitting and slandering at war in NSZZ Solidarity is truly nothing compared to those calumnies that have been thrown on Polish Radio 24 in the government of Mateusz Morawiecki since December 2023. It uses words I've never heard from a radio receiver in my full life. Following fresh public speeches by Donald Tusk and Nowack’s “ministery” you can guess where the patterns come from, let’s call it “retory”. If the most crucial people in the country with their political opponents can usage the words "evil, filth, rottenness" then what can you anticipate from the officers of their propaganda apparatus? I was wondering myself how the Tusk government came up with mediocrity capable of the ether of public radio broadcasting to fill specified a despicable and bottomless stupid babbling. Recently, from words aired on Polish Radio 24, I learned – from where. For 1 of the individuals performing as a writer expressed his regret about the tiny enthusiasm of Poles for wind farms. And on this occasion, he shared with the listeners the memory of his father's words. As it turned out, this father was in Stalin's years in a ministerial position and the memory was about electrification. A man performing in the swarm of the writer stated that his father besides erstwhile struggled with a dark Polish mass, which did not want to have electricity in the homes. The reason for this "do not want" was to be due to the fear of whether cows would proceed to give milk to chickens erstwhile connected to the shack – they were laying eggs...

Someone would think that russian – anti-Polish tales that fill Bolshevik propaganda – were already in the past. And that the past is the Komsomol stories aimed at alleged kułaków and another opponents of agricultural collectivization. Nothing more incorrect – the children of these “bolshevism practitioners” are now propaganda officers. erstwhile they had wheelbikes, present they have an antenna of Polish Radio. The 1 with specified a long and rich past and for 2 years has been put into liquidation. The 1 from which children of the chief Stalinists emit present the darkest propaganda, sometimes even filled with undisclosed contempt for Poland and Poles...

Artur Adamski