Does the crime which the communists committed to the Polish landowners concern 1 class only, or the full Polish nation? And did the 3rd Republic do anything to make amends for this crime? – prof. Kazimierz Braun and his boy Grzegorz Braun answer these and many another crucial questions in an interview with ed. Filip Obara in the "Cultivator" programme.
The book has just been published. Extermination 3.o – the 3rd part of the cycle devoted to the demolition of Polish elites by communists and later fates of those who were driven out of their household habitats and were violently deprived of assets, constituting the economical basis for the independency of patriotic elites in Poland.
The conversation begins with the memory of Jerzy Braun – uncle prof. Kazimierz Braun – who is the author of the celebrated and beautiful song Burning fire and roaring. Grzegorz Braun introduced the figure of this writer, volunteer in the Polish-bolshevik War and a well-deserved patriot, while prof. told about his life cases, beginning with co-creation of the Scout movement and ending with communist prison in the times of the Polish People's Republic (a akin destiny happened to the father of prof. Kazimierz and grandpa of Grzegorz).
Turning to the ground heritage theme, Grzegorz Braun first noted that it was an inheritance Of course, only in a portable and abstract sense, spiritual and intellectual, due to the fact that all of this heritage is mainly about the fact that you don't just inherit anything due to the fact that everything is left.robbed. He's asking any dramatic questions: How much more is Poland after the extermination and expulsion of Polish lands? Is it inactive the Polish nation or is it the society of euro-colleagues? Is this the Polish nation or is it just ethnographic material?
The game is continued by Kazimierz Braun. – At the time of the partitions, the possessors established ownership relations on Polish lands according to their orders. The most dramatic period was the confiscation of land assets after the 1863 uprising – says, indicating historical analogy with the alleged 1944 agricultural reform, which was besides imposed and carried out by the possessor, this time Soviet.
When asked whether the 3rd Republic took work for the demolition of Polish lands, Mr Braun answers: But, Mr. editor, it couldn't have been due to the fact that no 1 named the crime by name. The Polish people and in their masses and in their elites, unfortunately, did not announcement at all that something tragic had happened and erstwhile any uncommon and unsupported political force had appeared, calling for repair of the wrongs, to draw out applicable legal consequences and to retaliate the damage, it was then that Bronisław Germek, 1 of respective people who gave speech and set the direction of politics, I would not say Polish, I would tell Warsaw, the turn of the 1980s and 90s and asked about individual about the restitution of plundered property (it was called euphemism “reprivatisation”), Bronisław Geremek was to answer: "But this is not our electorate, due to the fact that people robbed by communists, families robbed, ruined (good if they escaped with their lives), this is not our electorate," concluded Bronisław Geremek.
Grzegorz Braun mentions a number of tragedies, specified as Katyń, in the flowering that the completion of this lobotomy of the Polish nation was the expulsion of the landowner. – And the III Rzeczpospolita of this crime on the Polish nation – not on the land itself – sealed and subsold. And it's an additional act of tragedy, and that's what my father writes about in his novels, and he talks about it in a beautiful, touching and thought-provoking way. – says the guest of the "Cultivator" program.
In turn prof. Kazimierz Braun complements the fundamental aspect in this context, i.e. the cultural and state-generous function of landowners, from which Polish elites were recruited in all areas of public life.
– The demolition of Polish landowners had social and economical aspects, but – what is more, what was deeper – had moral and spiritual aspects. The most profound changes to the substance of life of the full nation have occurred. From a moral point of view, it was a public demonstration of rape, looting and theft as lawful acts, and more – praised, sanctioned by power. Injustice is called justice, evil is called good. This is the essence of what happened. – added author Destruction.
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