“These forces [postkomunistów – przyp. red.] have returned and decide that the Kowalczyks cannot be honored. And when it comes to Lech and Maria Kaczyński, this is a matter of the PO itself,” PiS MP Jarosław Sellin said in an interview with Tadeusz Płużański on Telewizja wPoland.
The former deputy head of the Ministry of Culture considered whether Minister Dziemianowicz-Bąk has the right to spend The Office for Veterans and Victims of Oppression has received instructions according to which it is impossible to organize state ceremonies commemorating, for example, the Świętokrzyska Brigade of the National Armed Forces.
Ignorance of the minister
He probably has the official right, but not the social right. These celebrations will be organized by social forces, as this agency is called the Office for Veterans and Victims of Oppression. If Józef Kuraś had survived the ordeal of the Stalinist years, he would certainly have been a veteran honored by the Polish state. He was certainly a person who was oppressed by both the Germans, who murdered his entire family, including his two-and-a-half-year-old son, and burned his house, and by the Stalinists and communists. After the war he was also a man. person oppressed. He is included in the pantheon of Polish heroes who fought for independence
– said Jarosław Sellin.
The PiS politician believed that Minister Dziemianowicz-Bąk has limited knowledge on this subject and, moreover, limited sensitivity to Polish national symbols.
Ms. Dziemianowicz-Bąk does not like it because she has a moderate knowledge and sensitivity to Polish independence and patriotic history. (…) For such people, the Prime Minister of this government, Donald Tusk, is given such important parts of policy as oversight of the Office of Veterans and Victims of Oppression. This is grim
– he noted.
The return of the post-communists
Tadeusz Płużański emphasized that in Opole the plaques dedicated to the Kowalczyk brothers, distinguished in the fight against the communists, are being liquidated, and on the other hand, the hall named after Lech and Maria Kaczyński is being liquidated. This seems like a deliberate liquidation policy regarding Polish memory.
If in 2005 post-communists ceased to play an important role in Polish politics, (…) and the revitalization of this political force was carried out by PO, when Grzegorz Schetyna invited post-communists to get on the lists of the European Parliament to help Poland there to be represented by people like Leszek Miller and Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz, and then Donald Tusk invites them into the government (…) someone takes responsibility for it
– Sellin confessed.
These troops have returned and decide that the Kowalczyks cannot be honored. And when it comes to Lech and Maria Kaczyński, this is the responsibility of the PO itself
– added.
Denial of national heroes
As a result of the actions of Donald Tusk’s government, the activities and funding of a number of institutions, such as the Institute of National Remembrance, are being liquidated or restricted. The question arises as to what history, memory and national culture in Poland will look like after four years of Tusk’s coalition government.
Minister Sienkiewicz, regarding the Institute for the Heritage of National Thought. Roman Dmowski and Ignacy Jan Paderewski said this was money given “for their own account.” Well, I’m proud that he thinks my hero is Dmowski, Paderewski or John Paul II, whose money he also cut off at the Toruń Museum. In connection with this I ask: what heroes does Bartłomiej Sienkiewicz have? If he doesn’t identify with John Paul II, Roman Dmowski, Paderewski, who does he identify with?
– Asked Jarosław Sellin.
This is of course a repression against institutions that they call ‘PiS or Church’ institutions. National and Christian Democratic thought, symbolized by Dmowski and Paderewski, is an important part of the Polish political, historical and intellectual tradition of the 20th century. (…) What then needs to be created? I have not yet heard what the positive program of the government team is, who they want to put up as monuments and which institutions and under whose name these institutions should function? For now, we only hear denial about the obvious, 100% Polish national heroes
– emphasized the PiS MP.
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