“No 1 will ask / No 1 will wake up, / They will not come back to existence. No 1 will ask why the planet wanted to change, whose name would he die on?” – Proletaryat, In whose name?
On 1 September, the 85th anniversary of the outbreak of planet War II is, as usual, an chance to reflect, which is getting more bitter all year, as the situation at our borders is becoming increasingly worrying, and the politics of our authorities are becoming more frantic and irresponsible. Similarly, the atmosphere connected with this among parts of the Polish society shows that it is susceptible to war propaganda.
The drama of Zegallovich
The full image of the state's current state, which is not an abstract entity, and depends on the global situation, with peculiar emphasis on what is happening in our region, prompts us to look for historical moments in which any similarities to the present state could be found. possibly many search specified a minute in August 1939 for a reason. In my case, the reason for specified reflections is the movie entitled Card house. It premiered in 1954 and was filmed based on unfinished drama Emil Zegadlovich 1940. The action takes place just before the war begins. The film's title is based on an article thus named by the main character of the movie – Bruno Sztorc. He compares Poland to the home of cards, which was brought to specified a state by the authorities he criticized. In connection with the article he is wanted by the police, and the raid on the editorial office is carried out by the authorities by thugs who vandalize the headquarters, and the editors are beaten due to the fact that they do not want to uncover where Bruno Sztorca hides. How this is akin to the present times not only in Poland but besides in the "free world", where 1 can besides be persecuted or prosecuted in various ways.
Stone Reminds
Film by Bruno Sztorc must hide in the countryside, where local elites have fun on holiday, spending time in talks and naively believing that the government can handle the threat, as assured by the local old man playing well by Andrzej Lapicki. It ensures that “The enemy will reset. He will not dare take a step that can only have 1 effect for him – fatal.”. The naive, beautiful Miss Kitty played by Saflar DanutaWho believes only in the marshal Edward Rydz-Smigler enthusiastically declares that “The day after next day he will slaughter the speech that the German will wear off his skin. They will be threatened.”. So you can see all the money, pride, national megalomaniac known so powerfully among not only Polish politicians, but besides those who consider themselves intelligent. erstwhile 1 of the later editors of the bandits shouts “out with the Jewdom” or the now-known epithet of “the brats of Moscow to Bereza”, exclaiming the full pathos “this is our homeland!”, the editor answers him with words that are unacceptable to those impassed by the propaganda of the success of the bandits: “not ours, not ours. This is their homeland of slanders, fists and stones. And at the same time the appearance of strength – the home of cards”. After beating the editor, a stone enters the editor’s hand and says prophetic words: “I will keep this souvenir. The time will come and then we'll show the stone. If they forget, we will not forget. The peasant and the individual won't forget. He will not forget the earth, he will not forget the time”. And the time after the end of the war showed who was yet right then and that this stone was worth storing...
National character – bitter diagnosis
During the hiding of Sztorc in the village comes a verbal confrontation with the full local elite. Miss Kitty is incapable to perceive to any controversy with the accomplishments of the government, saying as modern believers of the “cult of holy peace” that “we, Poles, criticize besides much. inactive negative. affirmative is nothing. They can't enjoy life. You gotta want to, you gotta believe the government. aid him”. Here 1 can besides find religion in the "success", the same as the "work" of the creators of "szoku without therapy" as Prof. Grzegorz Kolodko. "Strong agriculture. We're an agricultural country. We are not afraid of hunger” – says another hero. 1 can find and find a modern fresh language, from the “democratic states” mixed with the hope of an alliance with Germany: "Polish people are normal, healthy and law-abiding. The best is the gospel of the future, our gospel.”. There are no shortages of godly shouts that “in the hands of providence lies the destiny of Poland”. A hero who praises Poland as an agricultural country becomes a "wall behind the uniform", reminding today's military admirer erstwhile he declares: "This our blue husaria, these our boys loved". The Tromtadratic and patos-full declarations of the elite effort to sum up Sztorc himself, who says: “I am ashamed for you intellectuals, members of the higher 10 thousand. Your mockery, your stupidity – they embarrass, scare. Where's the thought, not the rubber stick? And it is not that we remember our same - sacrifice. Any sacrifice will be of no usage if there's no thought in order. erstwhile there is no wisdom, erstwhile there is no seed of ideas. It's terrible to have a childless 20-year-old freedom. The peasants live almost in subjection. In fear of you, the priest, the chief, the IRS, the bailiff. Fear of poorness and hunger. Workers are trapped, and the best people are behind bars. Deafness and blindness of governments. Unintelligible, unlimited. abroad policy led to Poland's embrace along the full Western-South border with a sharp, relentless sickle. And an interior policy based on police officers, spreading terror. People of May regulation are pride, state, arrogance, reactionaryness, clericalism. Shame, shame and insolence. And they show the fig to the West, they beat the East with their finger. What about the highest school of social cognition represented by Russia, the Union of russian Socialist Republics? Mickiewicz would say that Russia took on a blood sacrifice and the hard work of universality for the salvation of a man and a individual of the full world”. Sztorc summarizes here 1 of the national features of Poles, which he perfectly characterized Edmund Lewandowski in the book National character of Poles and others. It evokes various Polish writers, criticizing Poles powerfully for their vices. "In December 1874 Boleslaw Prussia he wrote that all Poles are sick with large masters, that there is simply a “sickness of the state” in Poland. A fewer years later, the same phenomenon was highlighted Eliza Peanut. In loud work About Jews and the judaic Question She emphasized that the advantages and disadvantages of aristocratism happen in all classes and layers of the Polish nation. On the 1 hand, we have hospitality, sociability, generosity, generosity, self-sacrifice, easy inflame of feelings and imagination, and on the another hand, pride that craves greatness and a love for vainness.”.
Critic? He's not a Pole!
This summary of the elite conducted by Bruno Sztorc is expected to respond as if from today's set of insults, although in a fresh verbal form, mixed again with Polish, emodic bigotry: ‘He went mad. Insolence. The subversive lies of Bolsheviks. God or his homeland, this man is not in his heart. You sucked a Polish mother. With her milk you should have taken over patriotism, respect for the native authorities”. Later they begin to fishy whether it is definitely a Pole, and erstwhile another hero tries to defend it, he is suspected of being Jewish. There are besides calls to close it: "Mr. Bruno should have been isolated a long time ago. His convictions, His sayings—bolshevism pure! Today, at a time like this. How harmful!”. Another says, “The deficiency of Catholic principles leads to the road”. Here we besides have something from the propaganda of the success of power, erstwhile the present among the elite Mr. Starost, like 1 of the contemporary ministers or prime ministers, says: “This assurance has not been seen in our office in a long time. Let this be a guarantee, a guide in case of accident”. erstwhile Miss Kitty asks “In what case?”, he suits her that “in case of any serious conflict”. To her further concerns, if at all possible, he replies that “No 1 is recklessly willing to lose”. How was later? Definitely different from Mr. Starosta's statement. And how many times, perhaps, paradoxically, has NATO so far saved us from being dragged into war as followed by Ukraine? Jarosław Kaczyński After all, he had an thought of entirely his own to make NATO-native peace troops in Ukraine. The proposal to launch our aircraft from our airports to participate in the war was fortunately abandoned. The last thought was to shoot down Russian missiles over Ukrainian territory from sets set in Poland.
Defend all inch
The movie ends with the outbreak of war, the escape of the Polish authorities, and a visit to the police station alone Felician Sławoj-Składkowski, which turns out to be a dull trep, for which it is crucial that the police station be thoroughly cleaned and its maxim is “Show me your toilet, and I will tell you who you are”. There, he besides meets Bereza Sztorc, with whom he enters into a dispute. He recalls in his arrogant statements any Polish generals, who peculiarly deserved predictions about Russia's fast defeat in Ukraine. He tells Storm that “The German shoe went besides far. Our patience is exhausted. Now we will show them”. Despite 85 years since the start of the war, which consumed the lives of 6 million of our citizens, on the example of the above presented passages of dialogue, as you can see, small has changed. Emotionality, conviction of its right, moralism, messianism and eternal shoe, which Witkaci claimed stems from inferiority complex. All of this can easy be utilized in pro-war propaganda, which is the main tool for working citizens through the developed tools of what he called in Sociology EducationFlorian Prominent‘indirect education institutions’. In addition, there is simply a large regulation of quarreling with fellow countrymen, especially thanks to the effects of systemic transformation, which divided perfectly different professional groups. Can any “ordering thought” appear from this to callback Bruno Sztorc, quoted today, especially since possibly guarantees that individual will aid us "in the event of serious conflicts" They're not that obvious, despite a message that hasn't been very good in a while. Joe Bidenathat "we will defend all centimeter of NATO territory"?
Bartłomiej Doborzyński
