The Synagogue of Etos.
The European Solidarity Centre in Gdańsk is simply a distinctive building, integrated into the structure of the Gdańsk shipyard, onegda by Lenin. This modern building with its dimensions resembles the erstwhile organization home in Warsaw. A monumental structure lined from the outside with natural sheet, associated with 1 of the atomic bunkers, and the another with the hull of the ship. In any case, it is simply a powerful building where there is an audiovisual laudation for Solidarity and Lech Walesa.
In fact, the place is, due to the subjective and biased presentation of the demoliberal power-friendly version of events, it is not worth the money you gotta pay to visit, but if individual has a free invitation, then let him benefit, due to the fact that he can see how the Republic of the circular Table was constructed, the culmination of which is Polin. But first things first.
Visitors, whose majority of state abroad tourists, democratic notables and school trips, will get acquainted with the convenient version of the latest past for all liberal power. This place is the apology of TW Bolka and his acolytes. On the many inside screens, we have what is inactive in our minds, programming society for mindless consumers. This place is the dream point of mention to justify the social evolution from the Polish People's Republic to the 3rd Republic; thus transforming a free man into a beneficiary of a system, a mindless consumerthe eenta to whom you put under his nose is all that distances him from thinking, from rebellion and attempts to make opposition reality. The European Solidarity Centre contains the essential tools to build religion in what has been established at the circular table and from the history
from a point of view, the first phase of democracy begins at the very place where we see revolutionaries on the screens; so peasants, peasants, workers, intelligence working, comrades, citizens, grey eminences, emissaries, advisors, t
Ajniaks, dark masses, and around them shipyards, protests, strikes, understanding, folk Catholicism. In addition to Wałęsa, we have almost all followers of the "fat line" represented as apostles of the gospel of socialism with a human face. Visitors frequently usage headphones, so their heads apart from images, are forced into them by the version of the communicative that the participants of the Magdalen Shabbat agreed to. Visitors decision between many screens, passing the “relicts” of the ethos, specified as the electrical trolley, the working dents, helmets, fragments of the yard gate, damaged by the militia. There are typewriters, burnt-out cigaret ashtrays, documents, flyers, newspapers, buttons. There's besides a militia Star called a bitch, and there's besides a large screen on which you can watch martial law scenes. Next to the car, like trees in the forest, there are militia shields. I had the impression that not only Solidarity, but besides the PZPR provided its artifacts to a common memory boiler, as a superstructure for a future database of managers, representatives, intermediaries and educations, eurocrats, rainbow deviants and average life losers, held by abroad foundations.
Even erstwhile we're there, without the headphones and the players, erstwhile we're moving around the museum, we get a voice all alone. Whales, we see him on screens in the function of a demiurge of history, for this is his sanctuary. I'm certain people in the West inactive believe that. Pictures of Bolk and the JP II films will make the small ones know that the taste of creamcakes and the imagination of “second Japan” is all we had to do with that tears of padola between Oder and Bug. In a fewer years this place will be the only evidence that right next to the European Solidarity Centre there was something like a shipyard, that any people worked there, many thousands of people passed through the gate of the ethos for many years, and now, looking at it from the terrace of this bunker, you can only admire the fresh blocks, raised rapidly by Asian hands. And soon, apart from the shipyard gate, the wellness and Safety Hall, the green telephone booth and the monument of the 3 Crosses, there will be nothing left to associate with the difficulty of average workers, led over the years for noses by the organization and Solidarity. People who have drowned in the past of transformation, like ship wrecks. But there is only 1 left who owes everything and he has his own organization home – ECS.
We have a tiny circular table reconstruction in 1 of the halls. You can take a seat and feel like Camelot Castle among knights. An utmost dream, but individual gave the analogy of the legendary furniture, whose ink is in this building. Of course, diagonally, there are first movie cameras from that time. The willing impressions may feel like an opposition site, with the difference that already with tow. No one's drinking vodka. The local relic was even the clock from Miodowicz – Wałęsa debate, preceding the drinking in Magdalena. Yes, fragments of this show can besides be seen on the screen.
The item of the tour is simply a alternatively peculiar wall with a large inscription SOLIDARITY located in 1 of the rooms. It consists of tiny white and red notes. These notes are mostly available Right next to the table. You can compose on them and hang on the wall. I've seen people do it rather willingly, compose things in different languages. The association is unambiguous. In the ECS we have a wall of crying to suit the current needs of Polin, to measurement the continued cult of opposition d
Emocratic. Not for nothing all president RePeople of the circular Table, starting with Lech Wałęsa, made pilgrimages to the state located in Palestine. But the natives no longer gotta go to Jerusalem, just Gdansk and its synagogue of ethos.
Once we see everything they let us see, we may be able to meet the electrician of history, due to the fact that he has his own office in this place. I hear he shows up from time to time to talk to the small ones about how he deposed the commune.
I looked in the souvenir store erstwhile I left. And there's all the devolution. Hagiographic literature Wałęsa, pens with which he signed a pact with the commune, t-shirts with his image, cups, leashes, statuettes, keyrings, stands, condoms, vibrators... (back! I went back! There are dolls with Bolek in 3 varieties: a worker, president and defender of democracy. The raging rags, perfect for voodoo rites, possibly for any exotic visitors who practice their cults in countries where the African American dictatorship must be overthrown. I wonder if this building is destined for the burial of its god. I wouldn't be amazed if I did.
Finally, I have a fewer reflections left. The Polish United Workers' organization and NSZZ “Solidarity” working together and in agreement led to the disappearance of the key social layer – workers. This was done in common forces and continued for many years, under cover of all financial operations, media lies and empty promises. After the circular Table, no 1 protested erstwhile all Polish economical possible was eliminated and people were thrown to the curb. The state of political change is seen after what is left of Gdańsk Shipyard, which produced around 1,000 ships during its existence. People like TW Bolka had no moral problems or scruples to turn workers into slaves. After all, the political animators selected by safety to win the election authenticated themselves standing under the crosses, appearing in photos with John Paul II. The spiritual folklore of erstwhile “Solidarity” activists does not hinder modern anticlerics, as did the CODE trying to desecrate churches, does not disturb the Black Madonna in the Wa3ęsa naval flap, which has become the puppet of that CODE. There's a pattern. JP II did not bless "Solidarity" so that she would now be liable for the fall of Poland and to account for TW Bolka's tips. The subject of unemployment, economical collapse, abroad capital invasion, fiscal terror, the acquisition of Polish land, the assassination of Poles, the impunity of banks, and the constant regulation of cash turnover remains for the present Solidarity is not important. And they have their office right next to the shipyard, just as large as ECS.
I had the chance to see TW Bolka live a fewer years ago, under 1 of the Wrocław churches. This figure is about 160cm tall. I wondered what it was like, due to the fact that many documentary films show that the shipbuilders knew what Bolek was doing, what he had a profession outside of his profession, who he was reporting to. There were different people around Bolk, but there were surely more honest, more honorable, higher growth and stronger than him. Yet no 1 treated him the way a rat is treated and spits among his own. Nobody accounted for him from his Judas profession. Why? due to the fact that they were mentally the same as him. any of them, unwilling to see specified matters, unwilling to put themselves at hazard to anyone, another semi-analfalfabes from a distant and close province, for which the shipyard abruptly became the key to success and was everything in life. Yet no 1 wanted to go back to the fours, even if the PRL gave work to everyone. The shipyard - a multi-thousand-works facility in a large city, it was an expected promotion to a individual for people outside the cities, it was a possible of success like a window of life on the planet of Gdańsk docks and it was essential to show for years the powerlessness to grow TW Bolka on his own chest, so that, as president, he could bury everything he promised people, many years after he signed the agreement with his red pen on which he looked back John Paul II.
The ECS Museum maintained and resuscated with all grants will last various turbulences, political downheavals, crises and collapses, will last even developer investments in the area another from the Gdańsk shipyard. This secular cult and the comparative values associated with it are at the disposal of all demoliberal power. Museums and artifacts collected there cement the legend needed to last the Republic of the circular Table. all authoritative political option understands that. Each. Do you remember what people were shouting about overthrowing that republic years ago on the independency March? And what are they doing now, where are they?
That is why the museum in Gdańsk does not have among the exhibits of winning tickets totolls of Wałęsa, there is no Styrofoam on which he is behind, no barrier through which Captain SB Graczyk jumped, no motorboat, no act from IPN; just as there is nothing about Annie Valentynowicz and about another union activists who knew Lech Wałęsa from a different side than the Warsaw Authority and he constantly tells us to believe.
For even the shadow of fact cannot fall upon a false prophet.
Tomasz J. Kostyl
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