“It is sad to see how a historian becomes such a petty politician who does very dirty work,” said Prof. on Telewizja wPolsce24. Piotr Gliński, former Deputy Prime Minister and former Minister of Culture. “The construction of the Westerplatte Museum was blocked and turned into the Museum of the Second World War in order to present history in a German or universalist scenario, certainly not a scenario that would look at the history of the Second World War from a Polish perspective. he emphasized.
In the program ‘Poland Chooses’, the former Minister of Culture was asked to comment on the latest statements of Prof. Paweł Machcewicz, the first director of the Museum of the Second World War in Gdańsk, who expressed criticism together with the authorities of this institution on dr. Karol Nawrocki.
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Source: wPolityce
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