Andrzej Krajewski besides talks about little celebrated episodes from the past of the Second Republic – among another things, about the effort of the 1919 coup called Januszajtis, which was in fact an operetta coup. This word adhered to the rebellion of any officers, due to the fact that the full maneuver was organized so ineptly and so hilariously that there were inactive disputes going on today, what the bombers were actually after. But what strikes is not so much a scale of mess as the deficiency of any consequences in relation to conspirators.
III of Poland as the II of Poland? "Analogies don't go that far"
The author of the “Rzeczpospolita crisis” points out the circumstantial and unfortunately reminiscent of the modern human resources policy conducted by the ruling interwar sanitation in the 20th century. Its essence was to fill all posts exclusively “your” people. All of this happened in the conditions of an increasingly worrying global environment, which nevertheless did not trigger any reflection in the Polish political class at the time. The PPS and the endecia were so divided that even the danger spectrum hanging over Poland could not push their activists to throw banal political divisions into the corner. The temperature of political contention has continued to rise.
However, Andrzej Krajewski points out that the analogy between the situation of then and present Poland does not go as disturbingly far as it might seem. The Second Republic was not truly able to number on allies, an excellent example of which was the behaviour of then British Prime Minister Lloyd George, who actually wanted to give the Soviets our country on a plate. Only thanks to the opposition of Bolshevik aggression, Western powers began to number with us, although inactive Polish interests were treated selectively.
Speaking about the global situation around our homeland, Krajewski in his book points out that fewer Polish politicians during the period of the Second Republic, who saw the threat and wanted a compromise, were sidetracked.
The leader of the podcast asks the Guest whether the temperature of the dispute was, as it is now, the consequence of the intelligence of Polish politics. By any chance, what connects the period of the Second Republic and the present is not our native intelligence? Is it the peculiar social group from which we would anticipate political maturity and work that lacks the ability to emergence above the trivial conflict for power and influence?
