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波兰的神奇专制

Aug 13, 2018 Sławomir Sierakowski

华沙——波兰无法逃脱历史。在6月底突然召开的一次会议上，波兰下议院（Sejm）匆忙通过了全国纪念协会法案修正案，彻底推翻了今年1月通过的另外一项修正案。从即时起，因为二战时期纳粹罪行而指责波兰将不再被处以三年有期徒刑。

执政的法律与正义党（PiS）快速摒弃自己所提出的“记忆法”并不是一件令人惊讶的事情。最初的立法引来了国际公愤，尤其是以色列。就连美国总统唐纳德·特朗普——通常是波兰民族主义者的密友——也表示在危机解决前不会继续会见波兰领导人。

而且，波兰政府调整记忆法的方式显得荒诞不经。首先，整个过程秘密进行，以至于以色列和波兰关系由两国各自的情报机构负责调整，唯恐该法的主要支持者波兰司法部长兹比格涅夫·齐博罗听到关于法律修正案的风声。

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Criminalizing the Truth
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Criminalizing the Truth
Jan T. Gross interviewed by Sławomir Sierakowski
Why is Poland legislating what can and cannot be said about its Holocaust history?

While one reason is that its leaders don't know enough about the subject, the most important factor is the ruling Law and Justice party's increasingly naked appeal to anti-Semitism.
about Poland’s new law proscribing references to Polish complicity in the Holocaust.

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Varsovian Warsaw Aug 15, 2018

Engelking - married to an anti-Poland activist who denounced the students he taught in Communist times yet claimed like other liars to be in the democratic Opposition!!
Why not go the full Stalin and have JT Gross, who was a student Communist activist under the murderous secret police hero Zygmunt Bauman ... later a UK academic and journalist for the Guardian ... and similarly a "pro-democracy" type!!
Snyder has been roundly condemned for shoddy, propaganda-strewn work by Polish historians.
Any mention in this article of the 50,000 Poles recorded as having been executed by the Germans for helping Jews? No? Wonder why ...
- Mirek Fatyga Aug 16, 2018
  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_retribution_against_Poles_who_helped_Jews#Number_of_Poles_murdered
  
  you slipped,no? Somehow forgot to mention the Elders of Zion?
  - Varsovian Warsaw Aug 19, 2018
    
    After the Communists carried out the pogrom in Kielce my Jewish family faced a choice of either throwing in their lot with the Commies or emigrating. They left for Israel - ar least initially. The Commies lamely blamed the locals, but no-one believed them. Apart from foreigners.
    - Mirek Fatyga Aug 19, 2018
      
      I do not know who you are trolling here, but the descendant of a Jewish family that left Poland you are not. My suspicion, Comrade, is you are from the Eastern Branch of the world troll factory.
      - Varsovian Warsaw Aug 19, 2018
        
        You rightly state I am not a Jew - these Jews I referred to are relations by marriage. Still family in my book
        
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