Lessons on communism as a vaccination

According to Rzeczpospolita, Romania is the first post-communist country to introduce the subject "History of Communism" into its curriculum. Historian and expert on the Soviet Union Paweł Wieczorkiewicz of the University of Warsaw praises the move in an interview with the newspaper and calls for the subject to be taught at Polish schools. "Without this knowledge young people are vulnerable to extremely primitive emotions that may be very noble, but at the same time are very naïve. The generation that was educated after the era of communism has no access to information about this period. Consequently young people are sometimes convinced by cheap arguments dating back to the times of the People's Republic which they find fresh and innovative, when in reality they are worn out and false. ... Teaching both the theory and the reality of communism could act as a vaccination and make young people immune to it."

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