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Re: [Kresy-Siberia (Yahoo)] PiS "takeover" of Gdansk war museum - NOT
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Here is my answer to Stefan Wisniowski Kresy-Siberia Foundation President If we are not going to discuss political issues here, we should not discuss them here. Your answer which condemns the statement which I quote: "NB the unsubstantiated statement by Professor WJ Lukaszewski that "...people who controlled Polish government until last October tried to suppress popularizing the nation’s history as strenuously as did the occupiers in the past" actually transgresses our group value" - is just political discussion.? How do you know, that it is unsubstantiated? You should not react to the opinion of Prof. Lukaszewski. It is his opinion, he has the right to express it, especially that it is related to the polish history and the Tusk government did a lot to deserve such opinion. To avoid political discussion, we should not to discuss opinion, but the subject matter. As you said what you said, it raises the question why did you do that? Does not the grant from that government makes you feel obliged to stand in his defense? That is the most probable, as you indicate, that "our main grant applications have been rejected." by present government. Maybe they know more about our organisation than meets the eye or just do not have money right know, I do not know. I will quote here what I answered to someone else in historical matter. It happens that my answer substantiates the opinion of Prof. WJ Lukaszewski. With regards? Jan Gan? Quote: "Polish military effort on the West is well documented, known to the public and we are proud of all of its members. History is ?a very political issue. We have to distinguish here 3 areas.? 1.? Personal experience and knowledge of a person about historical facts. 2.? Experience, knowledge and ideology of different groups within a nation. 3.? Historical policy of a country, which depends on who is ruling that country. In this discussion, there was a problem rised by a member of a group, that in the history of Poland, they are forgotten. This group in general may be described as Poles who were members of Polish Arm Forces in the West, who settled there after the war. As a 72 years old, raised and educated in Poland I have pretty good knowledge about your history. I have finished my education in the mid sixties. Era of Wieslaw Gomulka, who thrown the slogan "Poland - country of the learning people" and? "A 1000 schools on polish millenium." They were built. We still had around teachers from before the war. We were taught thinking and making own conclusions.15 years later there was a different story. Policy changed into "pinguin education". All the same, a lot of material facts, no independent thinking, everything based on Marx materialism. Since 1945 historical policy of Poland supported interest of Russia, German Democratic Republic, Ukrainian and comunism in general. Therefore we did not know much about Katyń, and nothing about genocide of Poles in Soviet Union in 1937-1939 (200 000 victims), Wolyn massacre (120 000 victims). It did not change much after 1989, when Poland became "independent". Under Tusk government (2007-2015) education was diminished, limited the number of hours of history classes in high schools. There we sharp clashes on that issue of different groups, opposition, teachers, students, unions. There were no official protests against falsifying polish history by Jews and Germans. To the contrary. The authors received polish medals, honoris causa titles, took part in meetings and made lectures. Now this will be reversed.? For many years in Poland grows grass root interest in true Poland's history. There are independent publishers, internet sites, video lectures, especially in , discussions in this subject. There are a lot of young people who take part in it. Historical reconstruction became very popular - the newest way of presenting historical events to the public. Attractive and engaging, especially to the performers. . The hottest isue is the history of underground soldiers fighting against communism in 1945-1963 ? In the funeral of the most fameous mjr Zygmunt Lupaszka on the 24 of April 2016 took part the president of Poland, Andrzej Duda and none of the polish generals. This shows how much we are divided on historical issues. Your personal impression will depend on who you are talking to, descendants of communists or descendants of AK members. You and I may rest assured, that polish history will not be forgotten, will not remain distorted and falsified. Finally we have enough tools and will to fight for it. This fight has just began. There are plenty of Poles who co-operate with our adversaries, for profits or ideological motivation. ?genocide 1937-39 in Soviet Union On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 1:43 PM, Izabela Spero izabela_spero@... [Kresy-Siberia] <Kresy-Siberia@...> wrote:
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