I have been watching this discussion with more than a little interest.
To a certain extent politics is always going to intrude on matters of Poland and the Kresy because we are all here bound together by political events of the past.? Anything that potentially impacts the remembrance of our history is of potential concern and I think it should be discussed.
As an American who is also watching the political circus with Trump and Clinton unfold this situation gives me great concern.
Let us remember it was Hermann Goering who said, "History is written by the victors".
As a result I am vehemently opposed to any political control or influence on the recording, preservation or interpretation of history by those with political motives.? This needs to be left to academics and then needs to be vigorously debated.
Once any particular political movement is put in control of the emphasis of a particular view of past events we can never again be sure of our collective memories of them.
We should discuss this here because we are in the business of the preservation of those memories and anything that impacts that should be a great concern.
I find the charges that the past government somehow suppressed one view or the other of history highly suspect, just as I find the idea of PIS (a particular political party with highly nationalist policies) of even higher suspect.
Leave history to the historians!
This should be the position of KS.
Bernie
