The premiere of Krzysztof Lang’s film about March ’68 will take place in the Polin Museum on Saturday. Christ appears in Rafał’s review traditional manipulation about the attitude of the Poles at that time. About the events of the time of the late Gomułka, the reviewer writes:
The result of the government’s actions was an increase in anti-Semitic sentiments in society and forcing Jews, called Zionists, to leave our country.
Meanwhile, it is no secret that March was a dispute between the parties within the Polish United Workers’ Party – “boors” under the banner of the “partisan” Moczar, then Minister of the Interior, took advantage of student protests in defense of Mickiewicz’s staging ” Forefathers’ Eve” at the theater to settle scores with the other party. party faction – “Puławians”, some of whom were actually of Jewish descent. Jews did not belong to the partisan faction, mainly because they would not survive in the occupied Polish territories during the war. So it was easy for the primitives of the People’s Guard to come up with the simple formula that “Jews are bad,” which saved them from having to study. the nuances of Marxist-Leninist theories.
So in March, the Moczarians provoked the students and unleashed a disgusting propaganda campaign, hiding their anti-Semitic passions under the slogan “anti-Zionism.” By removing Jews from their positions, they freed government and party offices for themselves. As a result of the March campaign by some members of the Polish United Workers’ Party, four ministers, 14 deputy ministers and 58 directors of various ministries were dismissed within two months, thus reducing the influence of entire clientelist ladders in the Polish People’s Republic. . For these positions – including the famous scientific chairs, occupied by new, so-called March, lecturers – the ‘boors’ and their tactical allies have just entered, like Edward Gierek’s people, who sent brutal messages of support to the hardline PZPR members from the capital. Another beneficiary of the purges was Wojciech Jaruzelski, who, in the carousel of vacant positions in the ministries, got the Ministry of Defense for himself. As early as 1968, Beata Dąbrowska complained that the eSBek who interrogated her told her incredible stories about the ubiquitous Jews who had to be eliminated to make way for Poles. But the security service did not say that these ‘Poles’ were Moscow’s worst PZPR henchmen.
As happens during provocations and operations by the services Thousands of innocent people also became victims and a total of 15,000 people of Jewish descent left the countrywhich fueled emigration and quickly created an influential faction there, which years later would even influence the foreign financing of ‘Solidarity’.
Where is the place for – as the association around Michnik claims – ‘Polish anti-Semitism’? Did ordinary Poles have any influence on the government, on the Central Committee, on the security services that forced people to leave, on ORMO and ZOMO, which entered the buildings of the University of Warsaw to suppress student protests? The Michniks try to turn Poles into anti-Semites in 1968, with an analogy to how Engelking and Grabowski try to do the same during World War II. Just as professors wrongly write about the ‘German-Polish administration’ in the years 1939-1945, friends of ‘Wyborcza’ write about Gomułka’s Poland as a more or less free country, with the authorities expressing the views of the society.
Meanwhile, we know from the memories of the residents of Warsaw at the time (e.g. Antoni Zambrowski, Bohdan Urbankowski) that If Poles had any ethnic preferences at the time, they were anti-Arab and pro-Israel – for in the late spring of 1967 Israel defeated the neighboring Arab states, backed by the USSR, in the brilliant Seven Day War. So the Jews made things difficult for the “Russian Arabs”. Young people sometimes grew beards that resembled those of Orthodox Jews, and even smaller dives sometimes undermined the health of the winners of the Middle East clash.
Photos of rallies from that time show anti-Semitic banners, but these were gatherings of party activists, with inscriptions created by provocateurs from the Moczarów faction. In these photos you see people with limited vision staring blankly into space and holding what they were told to hold. But years later the historical narrative went like this: “Poland expelled the Jews in March 1968.” This version of events is intended to mask embarrassing facts:
1. The “Puław” faction, against which Moczar began his campaign, was itself the creator of the regime of the Polish People’s Republic, often with the help of Soviet NKVD members. It is therefore foolish to admit to many of Marc’s victims: “we were driven out by the opponents of our parents, the same ones who introduced Stalinism.”
2. The children of “Puławians” were often there alienated from Polish society not because of their Jewish background, but because of their communist upbringing – not knowing even the most basic customs, such as Christmas Eve or name days. Nowadays they are ashamed to admit it.
3. Families who attacked Moczar’s primitives by name were part of the Polish People’s Republic’s establishment, often lived in better residential areas and had a much higher standard of living than the vast majority of Poles. It is stupid to admit to being the beneficiaries of the system at the expense of ordinary Poles, so it is better to turn these ordinary Poles into anti-Semites, and the beneficiaries, into victims of them.
On top of all this, of course, there is the March manipulation’s main ally, who blames the oppressed people for complicity. This ally is total ignorance – today whole generations do not even understand what the Polish United Workers’ Party was, and if they were to explain the nuances between the ‘Natolinians’ and the ‘Puławians’, the ‘partisan’ and ‘Soviet’ origins, would be a job for educational “strong women.” It’s easier to sell colored tracing paper – Michnik was a great Pole and Poles are anti-Semitic. And just the icing on the cake of this untruth is the fact that Moczar himself was not even Polish, but a Belarusian on his father’s side.
Source: wPolityce