The president of Warsaw Rafał Trzaskowski spoke at ceremonies related to the Warsaw Uprising. He was talking complete nonsense again, but we're utilized to it. And I don't even get the idiotic phrase: “We look at what is happening in Ukraine and we appreciate the experience of the Warsaw Uprising.”
Trzaskowski said that erstwhile he was a boy in People's Poland he sought references in abroad writings to learn about the Warsaw uprising. That's bullshit. Rafał Trzaskowski was born in 1972. In the 1980s, the information about the uprising was Multum. All you had to do was go to a school library or a community library.
In 1945, respective low-volume commemorative brochures were produced in private and church publications. Kazimierz Wierzinski, Jan Lechon and Andrzej Bobkowski remembered the uprising on emigration immediately after the war. It was hard to get to, so you can't blame yourself. But there was quite a few it officially in the country.
General Jerzy Kirchmayer "Genesis of the Warsaw Uprising" published in 1946. Consider, however, that a young man might have difficulty reading specialist literature. In the same year, Jan Dobraczyński published the book “In a Crashed House”, and in a fewer months later Stanisław Podlewski “March Through Hell”. The associate of this uprising Bohdan Czuszko shortly later released "Generation", and Kazimierz Brandys mentions the uprising in the slanting fresh "Man does not die".
In the Stalinist years (it would have been better to call it the period of the bermanowszczyzna in Poland) there was a break in this topic. Fortunately, there was Władysław Gomulku and underrated Polish October 1956. The text by Jerzy Ambroziewicz, Walery Natomkiewicz and Jan Olszewski “To meet people from the AK” is published in “Po Prostu”. This started rehabilitating Home Army soldiers. Even albums with photos from the uprising come out.
The large Jerzy Stefan Stawiński published short stories “Hour W”, “Hungary” and “Kanał”, which became the basis of the 1957 screenplay of Andrzej Wajda. There are “Zaska and Parasol” by Aleksander Kamiński, “Various Stories” by Jerzy Pytlakowski and “Two-time Landscape” by Lesław Bartelski and “Self-Portrait with Rubin” by Zbigniew Florczak. The most crucial literary work about this event, or “Kolumbowie, will be created to this day. Yearbook 20” by Roman Bratny. Then was Miron Białoszewski and his "Memoir from the Warsaw Uprising" or poesy by Anna Świerczyńska.
Expert literature is besides available, the book by Aleksandra Skarżyński "The Political Causes of the Warsaw Uprising" or published on emigration, but the book by Jan Matłachowski, available in Poland, "Kulisy genesis of the Warsaw Uprising". The following works could be found in each library:
Krzysztof Dunin-Wąsowicz: "Warsaw from 1939 to 1945".
Szymon Datner and Kazimierz Leszczyński: "The crimes of the occupier during the Warsaw Uprising in 1944".
Antoni Przygoński: "Warsaw Uprising in August 1944".
Jerzy Sawicki: “The demolition of Warsaw”.
Collective work: “Civil Population in the Warsaw Uprising”.
The second half of the 1970s and the full decade of the 1980s is simply a time of tremendous amount of literature concerning the Warsaw Uprising. It was then that Rafał Trzaskowski grew up. Both historical books and novels based on these events appeared on the bookshop market. Kirchmayer's monumental “Warsaw Uprising” was resumed. Second circulation releases were besides available. The tv featured multiple “Forbidden Songs”, “Canal”, “Eroice”, “W Hour”, “The Columbs of 20”, “The Stone Sky” or “Generation”. At all office of the Union of Freedom Fighters and Democracy he could perceive to the stories of the participants of this rally. Especially since the deputy chief of this Kombatant organization was a associate in this uprising of AK-owiec Jan Mazurkiewicz "Radosław".
Of course there were any highlights and distortions during the period of People's Poland. However, it was only in the 3rd Republic of Poland that, on the tragic anniversary of the Uprising in Warsaw, a indulgence with balloons, caps and racami was performed. I see a performance on tv all year called Unordered Songs. And these happy faces as if they were singing about "Mary in the mill" on a barbecue on the neighbor's plot.
Who came up with the thought of having a happy organization on the corpse of 200,000 meaninglessly murdered our countrymen? Bleeding and applause. president Andrzej Duda like a brazen uncle at a wedding, singing about the dead from the song “Płacyk Michla”? The period of People's Poland in this subject is simply a time of reflection, tact and authentic memory.
Łukasz Jastrzębski
