Depersonalizing past and omitting a number of crucial threads in the name of "progressive" and cosmopolitan communicative – this is the character of changes in the programme basis from the past of Prof. Jan Żaryn. He points out, among others, that according to the fresh programme in the past of the Polish state and nation, the Catholic Church is simply a large absentee. The historian is besides very critical of another changes announced and enforced late by MEN. In any of them he sees an perfect mention to the days of Gomulka.
As the prof. points out, “MEN explains the changes made by necessity thinning the programme’, but in his opinion this is simply a discussion argument. – I am convinced that the aim is to present in school a certain historical communicative and to "silence" threads uncomfortable from the point of view of this narrative. I justice these changes very critically. – says in an interview with the Catholic Information Agency.
It is primarily about the approach to the past of the Catholic Church in Poland. – Since the Baptism of Poland in 966 and the Gniezno Convention, the Church is simply a large absentee in state policy and culture. As if there were no influence of the Church on the government and the strategy of the Republic, as if there were no notion of primacy – interrex, the engraver of the mixed monarchy system. There are no specified prominent clergymen as Jan Łaski or Piotr Complaint. There are no prominent priests of the 18th century, like Fr Konarski, Staszic, Bohomolec. There is no mention of the contribution of the people of the Church to maintaining the spirit of independency among Poles in the 19th century. There is no Pius IX, Leon XIII, Archbishop of Sigismund the fortunate Felinski. There are no saints at all, as a certain category of people entering the past of the nation and the state – says Prof. Żaryn.
However, it turns out that this is not the only subject that the current power in Warsaw wants to skip. The programme lacks the past of the Polish Borders and there is nothing about the Volyn genocide carried out by Ukrainians in Poles. – It seems that this is eliminated from the programming basis in the name of political correctness in the context of an effort to make Polish-Ukrainian relations for children and young people without a historical balance. But this “historical ballast” includes the full East Ends, which is already pure Bolshevikism – emphasizes KAI.
– It was the communists who were obliged by the russian Union to deprive the Polish nation of cognition about the Polishness of the Kresów and Polish culture, which flourished there, a culture fascinating to the Russian or Lithuanian families, which no 1 forced to accept this culture. Today, the effort to choke cognition of the Edges is most likely besides dictated by the political nonsubjective of correctness in relations with east neighbours – explains.
Prof. Żaryn believes that the fresh programming basis is "personalized history". – Names missing. Not only people of the Church, as I have already mentioned, but besides people, prominent Poles. The right of young people to meet these people is distorted but depersonalizing past is simply a dangerous procedure at all. It gives emergence to the temptation to enter the Postpeerel narrative, based on Marxist methodology – he explains, pointing out that specified communicative is expected to lead straight to a conclusion that the power wants to impose on students: “that the aim and the most perfect choice for Poles is the European Union dominated by EU oligarchs.”
Source: KAI / spoke to Maria Czerska
