zeitgeist2010
08.08.10, 20:39
Due to the devastating impact that the politics of the unfortunate
JarK government and the late president L. K. had on the image of
Poland abroad , I´d like to call upon all of you working in any
language with people abroad to explain to foreigners at least the
basic issues:
- Polish political culture and democracy cannot be automatically
compared with western standards, not even with the Czeck republic or
Slovenia bcuze the process of creating of political elites and
middle-class during the independence was tragically interrupted by
the war
- in the WW2 a further annihilation of Polish elites took place by
the hands of the nazis and to a lesser estent the soviets
- Also the budding of elites in the communist period was stopped but
not replaced by any decent alternative in 1989
- after 1989 a great many pple emigrated, it´s a fair assumption
that there were among them many educated and upwardly mobile pple -
another blood letting of presumptive movers and shakers of the
political life
All this may explain the recent commotion with the strange behaviour
of Mr J.K. its consequences on some segments of Polish society that
is completely unpenetrable for an international observer
e.g. "the cross controversy"