Why does past divide Poles?

kulturaliberalna.pl 6 months ago

The guest of today's Liberal Culture podcast is prof. Andrzej Friszke – a historian specialising in the past of the latest, prof. of humanities, author of books "Waiting for the Revolution. Communists in the Second Republic" (Political Criticism, 2023) or the interview-register "Professional: Historian" (Limit, 2022).
Our guest talks about the function of historian in public life, the function of politics in the survey of history, the moral duties of historian. The talk besides concerns the candidacy of Karol Nawrocki as president of the Polish Republic as president of the IPN, and the past of politicizing this institution. Why is the Polish political scene inactive governed by post-solidarity division? How does the Polish right play the story? What in Polish past is silenced for political reasons?

They invitation Jarosław Kuisz and Adam Leszczyński.

The podcast was created in cooperation with the Gabriel Narutowicz Institute of Political Thought.

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