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Polish courts are instruments of the government
A court in Poland has banned the national conservative opposition PiS party from continuing to broadcast anti-government television commercials. The Dziennik commentator Cezary Michalski writes that the ban won't change anything: "All the PiS and its supporters have achieved is the certainty that the courts in Poland are at the service of the [government] system. Meanwhile the court is doing nothing to halt the degeneration of Polish politics which both the PiS and the [ruling] PO symbolise. No matter what the ruling had been in this case … the quality of Polish politics would not improve one bit. [The national conservative leader of the opposition] Jaroslav Kaczyński and [his party colleague] Jacek Kurski have already shown their voters how they should react to unfavourable court rulings and affairs. One proof of the degeneration of the politics of the Polish Right is that it has launched a purely negative campaign to persuade its voters to vote for its candidates for the European Parliament."
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Paweł Machcewicz on the Polish anti-Semitism of 1968
Last weekend, Polish President Lech Kaczyński described the expatriation and deportation of around 15,000 Polish Jews 40 years ago as "shameful". Talking to Cezary Michalski, historian Paweł Machcewicz claims Poland rather than the Soviet Union was responsible for the anti-Semitic campaign that started in March 1968. "The anti-Zionist campaign of 1968 was autonomous. There is no evidence that Moscow stipulated either its form or its intensity. Moscow simply demanded that the entire bloc position itself on the right side in the conflict with Israel. The campaign was carried out with enormous zeal by the party apparatus of the Polish communists. Of course the government was not democratically elected because the state was not sovereign at the time, but they were still Poles."
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