Grabowski: Komorowski's presidency was an effort to whitewash Polish history

The loud anti-Semitic outbursts of Confederate politicians last year may have seemed a abrupt and amazing eruption of aggression, related, among others, to the discussion of accepting refugees or political conflict before the elections. Nothing more wrong: Polish anti-Semitism has strengthened the institutions of the state for decades, and as he says in his conversation with us Prof. Jan Grabowski, victim of 1 of the mentioned incidents – This happened both in the times of the Polish People's Republic and during the bleaching national past and peculiarly harmful from this point of view of Bronisław Komorowski's presidency

To show how much problem Poland put into hiding its hard history, Prof. Grabowski cites, among others, his own household history. "I learned about this 2-3 years ago – my grandfather's brother was murdered by people who are present put up by the Polish state as an example of morality for Polish youth. The fact that the Polish national right on this horse left was natural. The fact that Polish Democrats in the Polish Sejm can vote together with the Polish right to pass the Polish Holocaust Law, the full Act on IPN... After all, 460 MEPs voted against. Four.’

The IPN itself, which creates a ‘order-to-order historiography’ and is powered by gigantic funds from the state budget, is, according to Grabowski, an institution that “powered the most primitive schemes”. Did Poles stand at the time of the Holocaust at the tallness of the task – as they would like to show to right-wing officers? And is the community of historians capable of self-cleaning? These are the questions he answers. winner of the "Canadian Nobel" In our material.