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Re: [Kresy-Siberia (Yahoo)] PiS takeover of Gdansk war museum
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Hello again, I'm mainly concerned that this is another crass attempt at patronage appointments Polish-style, the stench of patronage seems to hang heavily over Polish politics no matter who is running the place and the PiS regime seems to be no exception. You can see this with the logging in Bia?owie?a Forest which is ostensibly to remove spruce trees infested with spruce beetles but then we read that half the trees to be removed are actually not spruce trees:- ho, ho, ho such a co-incidence (!) and I live in a country (Canada) with a big forest industry where loggers routinely pay off politicians for cutting permits in public forests so this clearly smells of political corruption to me. Likewise the sacking of non-political professional managers at the Janow Podlaska stud farm in favor of unqualified political appointees who are expected to "learn on the job" is another red flag to me and I see the same thing happening here at the new museum. The only people qualified to supervise this museum are either the veterans who actually made the history portrayed in there (and most of whom reside outside of Poland) or their children to whom they imparted that history with perhaps the chair being appointed by the Gdańsk city council since the museum was the mayor's idea in the first place. What I see here so far is a crass attempt to replace professional historians with more unqualified political appointees who will also inflict another version of the doctrine of the "politics of memory" on this museum calculated again to write our parents out of Polish history:- 200 professional historians cannot all be wrong, it is so flattering to have so many non-Polish scholars take such an interest in modern Polish history, much of which actually occurred outside of Poland, and to actually remember our "lost Polish tribe" including Mr Norman Davies, what would we have done without him to publish his new book "Trail of Hope"? However what will happen will happen, we seem to have little influence there, the Third Republic is not a continuation of the Second Republic, it is just the Communist Republic minus the Communism but it seems to be run by a hysterically paranoid fellow who cannot speak or read anything but Polish and who does not seem to know or care much about the outside world until he manages to crash Poland into it much as his late brother crashed an airliner a few years back:- the true spirit of the Second Republic actually resides out here with us who have never been touched by Communism! That's just this old lady's 2 groszy worth! On Tuesday, May 24, 2016 9:58 PM, "Witold Lukaszewski wjlukaszewski@... [Kresy-Siberia]" wrote:
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I don’t intend to get into this debate; the question had been asked, I answered it. Each of us is capable of looking back into recent history and find out the extent to which my answer is correct or not.? PS. Grant policies have nothing to with the intent of the question.
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