Those who look back to the second half of the 1970 ’ s know that it was a time for an increasingly hurricaneic run for success and besides for a slippery slope after which the surviving conditions of average people were falling.
One of the memorabilia of that time is then grown in each city, frequently called “The Thiefs”. Each specified “Thieve” consisted of the elegant houses of the organization nomenclature, called “red bourgeoisie”. These circles were characterized by the fact that, despite all the usage of the russian occupier and the constant trampling of "eternal relationship with the russian Union", purchases were made in the stores of the network "Consumas" (entry only for MO and SB officers) or "Pewex" (where gold could not be paid, but only Western currencies or PKO vouchers). erstwhile a Fiat 132 was driving on the street, it was known that there was a organization companion behind the wheel and if Fiat 127 was equally likely that his boy or daughter. Both models were very short series, mounted in Poland, for SB and nomenclature purposes. Today, the fact that individual had a daddy ubeka or a communist dignitary (which was always hereditary) can be learned from a passage of a résumé. 1 that is not hidden by various "encyclopaedias of fools" like Wikipedia. This résumé item is studying the citizen of the Polish People's Republic – at the Sorbonne, Oxford, Cambridge or any another renowned American universities. This has been the case since Gomulka, erstwhile a fund was created in the Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education, whose beneficiaries could survey at the most costly universities in the world. The cost of these studies was horrendous, especially if you took into account the monetary relations at the time. The wage of these better-earning Poles reached 20 dollars a month. I remember that no of my parents always achieved that ceiling. Even erstwhile they did extra work on days off, on which after 8 hours they talked about making 1 dollar. To send a kid to survey at the Sorbonne or Oxford for at least 1 trimester, the average citizen of the Polish People's Republic of Poland – he would not gain his full life. But there were those he sent PRL to specified studies. Who is curious – let them look in the “encyclopedias of fools” that do not hide specified facts. I think even studying in the 1970s or 1980s at specified an example Oxford consider it – a success! Only that no 1 sent to specified colleges has always truly succeeded. At the most – he was then delegated as a typical of the Polish People's Republic – to various global bodies specified as the United Nations – the planet Bank, Communist diplomacy or the function of a abroad press correspondent (absolutely always connected with splencing for SB). For those children of the nomenclature that were before graduation, so the Oxfords from the state registry were only before them, they besides invented different career trampolines. It was, for example, a program all Saturday shown on communist television. He held the title ‘5,10, 15’. It was a large media career for children at the age of five, 10 or fifteen. frequently children who were unconquered, squinted, with pronunciation defects, and which were completely inverse would seem to be the most apparent predispositions. due to the fact that the criterion was 1 thing: it was to be the children of the highest officials in the ruling country of the party. Over time, many of them, by force of constant presence on television, began to be among the “known and liked” people, in their movie material telling about places specified as Hollywood, Hawaii, Galapagos Islands and others, where they went with cameras and microphones at national cost. After the turn of the 1980s and 1990s "systemic transformation" it was these "world leaders" that came into the function of the expected "new elites". Just follow the biographies of the faces most frequently present in the most powerful media in Poland to see how uncommon are the deviations from this almost iron rule.
The grandsons of the Stalinist agent of the Communist organization of Poland, the Communist organization of Western Ukraine, the Communist organization of Western Belarus, which later formed the foundation of the Polish Workers organization and the Ministry of Public Security, were erstwhile told by Romuald Kukołowicz, an economist and sociologist who lectured at the Catholic University of Lublin, a activist of Fighting Solidarity. Since the 1940s he has been closely associated with Bishop Stefan Wyszynski and since the 1950s – the closest lay associate of the Primate of Poland. It was at the request of Cardinal Wyszynski Kukołowicz that he sometimes contacted the officers of the communist state, which was essential for the Church to proceed in the realities of pro-Soviet oppression. 1 day in the mid-1970s, Kukołowicz received a call from a alternatively dreary figure – from Franciszek Szlachcic, long-time head of the Communist safety Service, a fewer years ago removed from this function by Edward Gierek. The nobleman said he was dying, that his doctors judged him for a fewer weeks and he had heard of individual like Father Klimuszko, who had the power to heal. Kukołowicz fulfilled the want of the Nobles, and he, after visiting Father Kilimuszko, got out of bed, from which according to oncologists he was no longer to rise, and felt even healed. So he immediately asked Kukołowicz to meet him, asking how he could repay him. Kukołowicz replied that he answered questions about the apparatus of power and the unusual decisions made by this apparatus. The first of these questions was, “Why did you close the alleged March Commandos in 1968?” They were children and grandchildren of your closest companions, children of the highest officials of the communist nomenclature!” The Nobleman's answer was, “And due to the fact that Wiesław was angry!” Then he explained in item that the ascetic Gomulka had for years been annoyed by the fact that the sons and daughters of the communist party, alternatively of setting an example, live like the children of American millionaires. So they go in clothes bought for dollars, they drink French cognacs, they smoke English cigarettes, they go to Chamonix or Swiss Alps, Paris and London, they visit each another like the workers of Huta Warszawa “carousel in the Bielany”. This is the way the children of the nomenclature have been growling for years. And erstwhile these nomenklatur children in March 1968 began to strike and manifest against the organization – Władysław “Wiesław” Gomulku got angry. He shouted, “To prison with these kids, to prison!” He was so angry that everyone was afraid to turn to Gomulka with any argument. “What was it to do? We had to lock them up" – he testified to Kukołowicz Szlachcic. But then he added, “But don’t you think that these March children of our comrades were sitting in prisons like another average prisoners?” The prison service did not gotta explain anything – she knew what kind of residents she was taking. The conditions were different. What can be seen from the fact that erstwhile they got out of prison, books that they wrote in prisons immediately appeared. And it's technological due to the fact that they've always been provided with all the origin work from university libraries. any shortly after leaving – defended their doctorates. And they were leaving in the beginning of the decade Game in the aura of heroes, in the West waiting for their invitations, scholarships, money, honors. So they went out and traveled frequently for years and all over the world. due to the fact that no 1 denied them a passport and the surviving conditions in Poland, even those housing ones, inactive have the advantage. So Wiesław's want was then fulfilled, but no of the children of our companions were harmed" – said Francisz Szclachcic.
At the end of the Polish People's Republic – the increasing part of this caviar youth, raised on the “Ziedziejów”, buying American jeans in nomenclature stores began to “play opposition”. As for these jeans purchased in shops only available in the caste of the owners of the People's Poland, I will explain that at the end of 1980 the weekly "Solidarność Dolnośląska" published a price list in these establishments. To this day, I remember this shock, and I am already explaining what he was doing. In that 1980, just at the Wrocław station, the main 1 was a private store where the same jeans were bought for dollars for gold. The cheapest of these jeans cost 3 1000 zlotys, something about the monthly wage average. And I learned from the "Solidarity of the Lower Silesian" that the same jeans in the store available only for organization nomenclature cost 292 gold (in words: 2 100 ninety-two)...
In general, I do not trust the memories of people of the erstwhile communist service, but erstwhile I read Colonel Piotr Wroński's book, I learned from it about the life of "children of nomenclature playing with opposition" – I knew these realities from many other, to the highest degree reliable sources. That's how I know that mentioning student times, Wronski was writing the truth. And he wrote that in the flats of his fellow students, it was these “children of nomenclature playing with opposition” with unfettered amazement that he saw that pantrys and refrigerators had only landed products and only those from “Pewex”. From time to time, I remembered the price list in 1980 printed in "Lower Silesian Solidarity". In these times, how cruel—they truly had all these luxuryes. Not only did they have them in the beard it is inactive – at a price representing a fraction of the marketplace value. Like these jeans bought not even for a tenth of what had to be spent in a store for “normal people.”
Colonel Wroński's entry into the career way in the Polish People's Republic – the services of the Polish people justified that "if the opposition lives like this, it is no better than the communist nomenclature." I agree with that view, but with 1 CATEGORIC condition. I agree, as far as it is only about this “opposition with Thief”. For these children, the nomenclature "avoiding the opposition". The present misfortune of our homeland is that the alleged "historic compromise" was concluded in Poland between safety and, to a fundamental extent, specified a "opposition".
Artur Adamski
