Dr. Karol Nawrocki, president of IPN gave an extended interview for the website interia.pl. Among another things, he raised the issue of the Tusk government's thought of the liquidation of the Institute and the highly left-wing, censorical urges of the Ministry of Education, which is directed by an highly left-wing activist.
The head of the IPN crushed Barbara Nowacka's censor drive. First, however, he referred to a mantra repeated by politicians of the ruling option, a task to liquidate the IPN. – The liquidation of the Institute of National Memory would be very unfavourable for Poland. It is actual that specified messages appear, but they come mainly from people who have no awareness of what the IPN does – he said.
– It is interesting that these announcements come mainly from representatives of the Left, or organization that received 6-7% support in the elections. I am not amazed that representatives of the marginal post-communist party, which is simply a genetic opponent of the IPN, repeat specified demands – he said.
In the following part of the interview, Karol Nawrocki referred to the question of a fresh programme basis, which is to be heavy truncated about patriotic themes.
– What the fresh Minister of Education proposed is frightening. I see in the plan of this program base a certain Jacobin frenzy, which is profoundly distant not only from historical decency, but from established facts in the past of the 20th century – he replied.
“Deleting the function of the Catholic Church in the fight for Polish independence, calling the Catholic Church during planet War II and repression after 1945 a euphemism of the kind “State Relations – Church” sounds like censorship. The same is actual of the Volynsk crime, which was not called genocide. For God's sake, we can't pretend for any political good that the Ukrainians didn't execution 120,000 Poles in appalling circumstances. He specified.
– We should have as a nation and as a state a demarcation line that touches history, a uncovering of historical facts that we do not exceed. No programming basis can miss the historical truth. I, too, as a father, do not agree that my children at school have no right to hear about the Volyn genocide or the function of Saint John Paul II just due to the fact that it does not correspond to the imagination of the fresh Minister of Education – he concluded.
The head of the IPN besides referred to the thought of separating the IPN investigative unit and including it in the universal prosecutor's office. – Taking any component from the Institute of National Memory would be detrimental to the functioning of the Institute itself and would have many consequences that postulators cannot foretell – He said.
– Today, the IPN operates the Crime Investigation Commission against the Polish Nation, which has large achievements. This is an investigation recognised before the courts, and in the case of Czesław Kukuczko from 1974 besides before the German court. We can effectively explain the circumstances of a crime 40 years ago, deliver documents, materials. Our prosecutors frequently find them in the private apartments of erstwhile service officers due to the fact that they know how, what and where to look.
– specified efficiency is only possible if prosecutors cooperate with historians who assist them in proceedings erstwhile utilizing archival materials collected at the IPN, and thus have free regular access to it – he added.
OUR COMMENTS: As far as we full agree on the first 2 issues, we object to the question of the investigative unit. The alleged Commission for the Pursuit of Crimes against the Polish Nation is an institution carrying out non-Polish interests, that we will only remind the prosecution of the exhumation in Jedwabne. The latest example of the harmfulness of this institution is the intrusion of the IPN prosecutor together with the ABW into the patriotic 3DOM publishing home under the appearance of promoting the content of “anti-Semitic”.
We besides recommend: The doctor was advanced on duty, and the paramedics were punished.
