“For me, this is an act of cultural and political barbarism. We worked very hard to create a Department for the Restitution of Cultural Property, because before there was a small department dealing with restitution and they were excellent specialists who built the whole system for getting works of art back for years, and now it is being destroyed,” said former Minister of Culture Piotr Piotr on the dismantling of the Department for the Restitution of Cultural Property, Gliński.
This is a different understanding of culture, these are barbarians who currently rule in Poland at the Ministry of Culture, because this is not the first act of complete barbarism, the destruction of something that is necessary for the existence of Polish culture, Polish identity.
– emphasized Piotr Gliński.
We lost at least half a million works of art during the Second World War and it is our duty as a state and citizen to get these works of art back, because we recently recovered 700 objects…
Source: wPolityce