Koniuszewski: We, the survivors

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There's no request to get besides emotional about our fate. If we treat nations as a political category, we must recognise that they are unhappy, more experienced and even inhumanely hurt in Europe. Like Hungarians today.

They were taken from all the historical lands and – ironically – in the name of the laws of another nations! 1 might announcement that harm to 1 nation can origin happiness to others. We, in the light of many others, have no peculiar reason to shed a sea of tears over our unfortunate fate. Of course, on 1 essential condition: that we do not name ourselves a chosen nation, called to save others. If we are simply ordinary, normal, our history, the present, surely the future is ordinary, average, medium. That's who we are. Let us be ourselves then!

But first things first. Nations are historical. It means that everyone has a beginning, 1 or the other, and if they do: they must besides have an end. Only 1 people consider themselves eternal, but he besides had a beginning. Furthermore, the notion of nation in all age had a somewhat different meaning. Most commonly – generalization – referred to narrow, elite circles of a given community. They're all people, just locals. In their assessments – the aliens were mainly guided by religion, customs, place and language. Generalization is the domain of steering layers. The concept of a nation has spread along with a fast-shooting rifle, universal military service, education, press, civilian position documents, etc. Today, there is not a single man in Europe assigned to any nation.

Under these circumstances, under the same laws, our people besides evolved. What we see present is the work of the last 2 centuries. And in all this massification phenomenon, the nation has lost its erstwhile nature bound to race and blood. It has actually become not even a cultural but a legal concept. It is the norms that find the belonging of a person. From this courtyard, we must besides draw the thought that all nation, even the linguists, has the right to alleged self-determination. For example, the Federation of Yugoslavia disappeared. However, let us return to Poland. Fortunately, despite the multinational nature of the Second Republic, after the Second War Poland became a very dense and uniform national state.

Then, alternatively than before, the historical process of building the national thought was completed. Many phenomena served this. Among another things, the homery exodus of Poles from the east Borders to the areas of Western Borders. Then the alleged first large industrialization of the Stalinist era, the second targeted wave of industrialization of Poland, the national – creative ideology of Gomulka times. Earlier territory differences have faded, besides sharp state divisions have been stamped. In the age of nations, this was an highly large success. So large that at 1 point it seemed that we could overcome the intelligent – Messianic impasse. The poison that poisons our being. However, everything began to change slowly, but definitely. First, it turned out that in order to get western loans in Poland live Silesians and Masurians, who like to be Germans. It ended with a large influx of Ukrainians. And even if the effects are not yet seen, this fact means only 1 thing: 2 nations already live in the common territory. There is inactive time to give Poles supremacy, but only a moment...

Antoni Koniuszewski

Think Poland, No. 15-16 (7-14.04.2014)

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