Hello, what do people here think about the takeover of the new Gdansk war museum?
There seems to be a lot of opposition to this political manoeuver including by Norman Davies
and there was an open letter to the Minister of Defence published in Gazeta Wyborcza
and co-signed by the 200+ scholars who helped to plan this new museum opposing this takeover.
I also read an article by the mayor of Gdansk, Pawe? Adamowicz, who said that the new PiS government wants to impose the doctrine of the "politics of memory" on this museum which apparently means suppressing anything which does not contribute to their version of political correctness much as the Communists also did.
However I honestly do not know what to think but I do know that the Communists wrote us out of Polish history books for 45+ years and I still encounter this ex-Communist amnesia from mainland Poles who come to Toronto and seem to know nothing about the Polish 2nd Corps and often who will insist that we are not "true Poles" but merely foreigners of distant Polish ancestry, which is so very, very irritating.
I'm certainly very much against a new attempt by the PiS to similarly write us out of Polish history books
if that is really their intention.
Your comments on this situation would be greatly appreciated, thank you.
