Professors Stanisław Żerko and Zdzisław Krasnodębski commented on social media about the staff changes taking place at the Western Institute in connection with the staff exchange by the government of Donald Tusk.
Historian and German expert Prof. Stanisław Żerko noted on the X platform that despite his rather critical views on many issues in recent years, no one has ever tried to influence his opinion or challenge him in any other way.
Not a single person has been fired from @IZPoznan in the past eight years; people were employed whose political views were their private matter. No analyst was given instructions on what to write. For a number of years now, I have – privately – been sharply critical of PiS. Not a hair has fallen on my head
– wrote Stanisław Żerko on the X platform.
No surprise
The issue of staff exchange in different types of institutes was also commented by Prof. Krasnodębski. He admitted that he was not at all surprised by the move by Donald Tusk’s government, taking into account the history and previous activities of the Western Institute.
No wonder the Western Institute is at risk of closure. The beginnings of the Western Institute go back to December 1944, when in Milanówek near Warsaw a group of intellectuals gathered around the outstanding expert on German issues, Zygmunt Wojciechowski, a professor at the pre-war University of Poznań, initiated the establishment of a research facility in Poznań dealing with German issues and the history of the difficult Polish-German neighborhood. The Western Institute was officially founded on February 27, 1945 and its first director was Prof. Wojciechowski
– wrote on the X platform Prof. Zdzislaw Krasnodębski.
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Source: wPolityce