The establishment of the post-communist UBekistan has an invariably hostile attitude to the fact about the past of Poland, to the latest past and to the cognition about sources, form and transformation of the Polish People's Republic – the strategy in particular.
During the time of Poland, the majority of young people were educated in basic vocational schools, in which past lessons until the times of Solidarity were not at all. The forgotten conquest of August 1980 (which we should possibly number among Polish national uprisings) was the introduction of past teaching in the competitions. To guarantee that a large part of young Poles do not finish historical education on a modest course yet closed in the 15th year of age, along with leaving the walls of primary schools. People of August, Solidarity activists and simply Polish patriots wanted our society to have a solid historical awareness, which means national awareness. If the importance of this educational, pro-state, "conscious" conquests of August 1980 is combined with what happened in Poland after the collusion of Magdalena, after the "round table" and the co-optation to the nomenclature of ranks selected by the safety of the remains of Solidarity, we will see that in this highly crucial case the turn of 1989 was the other of the diametrically different turn of 1980. With 1980, teaching the native past was repeated in Polish schools. And immediately after 1989 – radically cut off. Since 1991 past in all Polish schools has been half as much. And then it came to be her full expulsion from the advanced school program, against which the noblest of Solidarity heroes protested in hunger strikes. 1 of the first decisions of the government to gain power over Poland on 13 December 2023 was to expel past and the present from school programs.
Why does the establishment of the UBekistanu, loudly called the "Third Republic" so much hatred Polish past and especially the latest history? The answer is very simple. I realized these causes in the state of war due to a radio broadcast of Combating Solidarity. The editors of this ultra – conspiratorial and highly fiercely combated radio station someway managed to evidence the session of the Provincial Committee of the Polish United Workers' organization (i.e. simply – the parties of pro-Soviet communists) with the speech of its first secretary. The secretary of Wrocławski KW PZPR was Tadeusz Porębski, and here, possibly a small interesting fact, that against the background of the remainder of the communist nomenclature, this Porębski stood out in favour. Of course – as an officer of the martial law regime, he is liable for what was going on in Wroclaw Voivodeship. From the stories of my friends, colleagues and friends from Fighting Solidarity, from which hundreds studied or worked at the Wrocław University of Technology, it appeared that this Tadeusz Porębski was alleged "honest party". Of course – the concept is in itself an oxymoron, but in the Polish People's Republic – the absurd land of this kind of phenomenon was internally contradictory. Porębski was a prof. of method sciences, for respective years a rector and possibly a actual intellectual. Which, together with the “Marxist integrity” observed by students and employees (another oxymoron) had to yet destruct it from the advanced circles of the PZPR – the nomenclature. On the another hand, in 1983 he fell into disfavor and ended his organization career any time later. According to people I know from his university, it was expected to be the ability to talk what he thought and the IQ which was frighteningly distancing the full Central Committee of PZPR about all the provincial committees, not to mention. I Porębski saw and heard rarely, but this speech addressed to members of the Wroclaw University of Warsaw, although secret is someway recorded and aired by the underground station, stuck in my memory. due to the fact that I was amazed by its content and at the same time realized why the communists of the fact about Polish past fear more than fire. Porębski spoke straight to his companions that the fact about postwar past of Poland is terrible. That it does not contain only events specified as reconstruction of the country, large economical and social changes, urbanization and industrialization, but besides – quite a few tragic events, which were not only mistakes or distortions, but crimes. And these crimes in their scale are large and numerous. Porębski stated that revealing this fact in the realities of martial law would be suicidal for the party. However, he added that hiding it in the long word would be difficult, due to the fact that in thousands of Polish families it is passed on from generation to generation, that they talk of it abroad loudly, that it is being sold by the Church, that it is written about underground publications. 1 of Porębski's sentences that made the most impression on me was, "We may not uncover it, we may not admit it, but let us not lie to ourselves, let us be aware that the fact about the past of the past forty years is mostly terrible." Then he added that "it will be our problem in the future" and that "we inactive have no way to deal with it." Porębski did not mention any facts that would be peculiarly uncomfortable for communists. I was amazed at that, due to the fact that the publication of the Solidarity press since August 1980 about the events of 1956, 1970 or 1976 has revealed rather a lot. I say he meant tens of thousands of victims of the panic of the 1940s and 1950s, the circumstances of the installation as the alleged Polish power of the russian and many agentry, for the organization nomenclature immanent, monstrous pathologies destroying crucial national spheres of the life of Poles. Porębski spoke on a large level of generality, definitely but besides with real fear in his voice. due to the fact that in that voice, you could hear the most real fear. In fact, it was struck by a sense of danger. And that's erstwhile I realized how much the communists fear the truth. The fact about Polish communist past virtually scares. That fact is simply a threat to them. And therefore, both communists and post-communists are mortal enemies of truth.
Many books devoted to Polish past of the 20th century were created. However, much little those whose subjects would be mainly afraid with the Polish People's Republic of Poland - and besides with the Holy 1 one should look for honest or even unreasonable lies among them. 1 of the most popular ones is “PRL for beginners” by Jacek Kuronia (written in collaboration with Jacek Żakowski) and is simply a typical example of a real symphony of silences, misconceptions, perversions and utmost self-centered autocreation. The main stream of past was the author's own past and those whom he raised in the Bolshevik educational centre, to whom he named General Karol Świerczewski "Walter" – 1 of the most vile creatures always to walk on Polish soil. specified sweats in post-communist UBekistan, by way of medial – propaganda quasi – were given the position of best sellers. And specified wickets deformed the awareness of young generations, to the ground distorting their notions of misery, which was communist Poland. With specified a terrible fact as the fact that for 3 decades the vast majority of young Poles finished their historical education in the early 20th century, seldom only reaching the years of planet War II, specified a Kuronic publishing curiosity made our society at a point worse than “the state of zero” in terms of cognition of the latest history. This level of cognition is so dramatic that the consequence of films specified as “Miś” Bareji or “Controlled Conversations” of Chęciński (where excellent) is the perception of the Polish People's Republic – in the half-century a joyful grotesque, unless a joyful carnival or a circus in which all day 1 could laughter side by side.
All the more so, due to the fact that the state of cognition of contemporary Poles about the times in which their homeland was in oppression of russian domination is on a critical level, 1 must appreciate work as unique as the 1 issued by the White Raven showed a volume entitled “Opression. Illustrated past of the Polish People's Republic" prof. Wojciech Polak undertook in it a description taking into account even dozens of aspects of this issue. all time – focused on what is most crucial and guided by the intention of the reader to scope key conclusions. What made the top impression on me in this book is the immense number of names of characters written in the Polish People's Republic – this story. A large part of them are the names of people who, erstwhile operating in different places and from different backgrounds, opposed the title “pressure”. The author did not underestimate the function of people coming straight from the communist nomenclature, from the families of the officers of the panic apparatus, including the descendants of Bolshevik criminals or Stalinist agents, forming parties of KPP, PPZU and another anti-Polish gangs seeking to destruct our state. However, the function of these people at the minute erstwhile the subject of systemic transformation from the late 1980s and 1990s will appear on the pages of the book by Prof. Wojciech Polak. due to the fact that then it turns out that a tiny part of the characters in the years of the Polish People's Republic – with the protagonists walking with him was not actually who he claimed to be. any of them will simply drop their masks or abandon everything with which they have been identified so far to accumulate fortunes and make superb careers thanks to the support of their officers leading with SB or old friends, frequently relatives from the PZPR elite – u. Most of these elites, formerly called “owners of the People's Poland”, into being a sound called the 3rd Republic rapidly turned into luck owners. Always obtained illegally but legalized by them the slightest even verification of the caste of the post-communist judiciary.
In a very wide panorama of figures who put up smaller or greater opposition to communist tyranny Prof. Wojciech Polak absolutely does not favour conservative, radically anti-communist and independency or close to the Church. He generously pays the full credit to all the emerging circles in PRL – to the privileged. Recognizing the function many oppositionists played in the 1980s, it does not diminish to a lesser degree the careers of these people in the following decades. 1 of the larger and more detailed photographs, placed on page 375, is presented, for example, by the student strike of the Philology Department of the University of Wrocław with a banner containing a request for the release of Paweł Skrzyzanek. prof. Wojciech Polak, who is close to conventional and Catholic values, no uncertainty associate this name with the individual of Jakub Skrzyzanek, by Minister of Culture and National Heritage Hanna Wróblewski, late appointed as the youngest of the current deputy directors of the Krakow Old Theatre, the first Polish national scene. And he knows very well that this loud manager of the youngest generation is, of course, the boy of a individual briefly detained by SB just before the student strike, illustrated by a photograph from the events of 1988. Today, the name painted on the banner of Poles is associated with performances specified as “Mein Kampf” or “Death of John Paul II”, which means that it does not all associate positively. In 1988, however, it was a surname at the University of Wrocław associated with a student seeking to resurrect the organization of Bratnia aid and not yet being the father of today's scene (or obscenity).
Prof. Wojciech Polak's historical workshop is so as far distant as possible from the fact that anyone should belittled by the fact that it occurs in later stages of Polish history. most likely for the same reason, listing characters in August 1980 does not complement these names with aliases under which they performed tasks as secret co-workers of the SB. In the reality of the presented events, this cognition was known only to the services carrying out the task of exercising full control over society. From the position of most members of the ten-million-dollar union Solidarity – these people were seen as leaders of their movement, frequently even leaders of the nation or fearless charismatic heroes.
It should besides be appreciated that in the book entitled “Oppression” so much space was placed on the dedication of justice to the large achievements of literature, culture and art of the Polish People's Republic – the forty-five years. Having read the review of this work presented by Prof. Wojciech Polak, it is hard not to reflect on the experience of our contemporary theatrical life or cinematography. The Polish movie School of the 1950s and 1960s, despite censorship, was 1 of the most interesting phenomena in the world. Taking the highest artistic honors Roman Polański easy proved that the best of the movie schools in the planet is in Polish Łódź. In terms of the number of crucial movie awards collected by her alumni, statistically no another could compare with her. In turn, in the second half of the 20th century, the most crucial theatre in the planet was considered almost unanimously by the Wroclaw laboratory of Jerzy Grotowski. It is for this reason that the largest of the erstwhile festivals (to date called the “festival of festivals”) was held in our home in the Oder Castle in 1975. The performance of the fresh York Broadway performance, Henryk Tomaszewski, Jerzy Grzegorzewski, was besides greatly appreciated. Let us add that in the 1970s, fresh York's critics recognized our Richard Cieślak as the top actor. A year earlier, Lawrance Olivier was awarded the same honor and the following year – Dustin Hoffman. 1 of ours at the time was a class of Polish actors! prof. Wojciech Polak besides noted that Poland at that time had music makers, belonging to the strictest top of the world, and that even government television, despite its propaganda, had many outstanding works in its programme. Like theatre or cabaret. And that we besides had excellent people jazz, poster art or literature. Unfortunately, present many areas of creative activity are no longer even shadows of what erstwhile generations have done despite the realities of totalitarian oppression ...
Professor Wojciech Polak, however, powerfully notes that the times of the Polish People's Republic – at the first place were – sometimes oppression. And with large power he emphasizes that at that time our nation had the top measurement of heroes able to defy this tyranny. frequently paying the highest price, as in the case of tens of thousands of soldiers of the Postwar Anti-communist Uprising, subjected to the cruelest practices of opposition people or the Church. specified as Fr.Bishop Antoni Baraniak – unbreakable despite the torture of the beasts, hideous and unimaginably cruel. The author of the book very aptly and reasonably indicates what constitutes the most basic mainstream of Polish history. In the years of the Polish People's Republic – there was a continuation of the conflict for freedom and independence. The best of Poles then joined the relay of generations of insurgents, conspirators, defenders of Polish borders. The fact that in all generation of specified people we have always had an extraordinary amount is possibly a phenomenon that distinguishes Poles from another generations of our continent. This extraordinary fact on the pages of the work of prof. Wojciech Polak sounds very vivid and very real. And the fact is all the more important, due to the fact that for thirty-six years, the most privileged position in Poland has been the propaganda organ serving the pedagogy of shame. It is not a coincidence that more than three-quarters of the media marketplace operating in Poland are the media strictly post – PRL – Polish or German (and these belong to corporations of the Nazi genesis).
Rafał Ziemkiewicz says about Poles that it is “a nation that cannot be broken”. Systematically bled out, like a fewer that were assaulted, robbed, terrorized and oppressed. And yet always resisting, never giving up, instantly reproducing the tissue of its elites, and its cities and villages countless times the indestructible carrying of the ruins. This may be the case for how Polishness defined Jarosław Marek Rymkiewicz, according to which it is simply a "unparalleled spiritual force". prof. Wojciech Polak looked at respective decades of this phenomenon from the side of historical processes, facts and human fate. And this besides leads to the conclusion of Jan Lechon in his rhetorical question to Poland: “Who has a communicative as beautiful as you?”
The excellent, beautifully edited work of prof. Wojciech Polak is the most cross-sectional, fullest, most perfect of the competences known to me about the destiny of Poland and Poles under russian domination. For those who remember those times, it will be an unparalleled journey to the years of youth. For those who do not know this era, the top origin of knowledge. Popular but besides useful to professional historians. Wojciech Polak's "Oppression" will so be an highly interesting and essential reading for the widest circles. By all means, it is worth that with this vault of cognition about the foundations and sources of our modern times all Poles should become acquainted with it.
Artur Adamski
