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Zaremba, Piotr
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4 articles of this author have been cited in the European Press Review so far.
Journalists as communist anti-patriots
A court has sentenced Polish poet Jarosław Marek Rymkiewicz for insulting a journalist of the daily Gazeta Wyborcza. But the conservative daily Rzeczpospolita believes the accusations he levelled against its rival paper were accurate: "Are the heads of the Gazeta Wyborcza the heirs of the pre-war communists? Even [the paper's founder] Jacek Żakowski once broached the subject saying that as far as he was concerned the [communist] CPP was just a normal party. And judging by the contents of the Wyborcza this would still seem to be the case (like the recent defence of the biography of [Polish Futurist] Brunon Jasieński). Do Wyborcza journalists genuinely hate Poland and Christianity? They might say no, but they trivialise the meaning of patriotism and religion to such an extent that it's completely illogical for them to take insult at this opinion."
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More from the press review on the subject » Print media, » Poland
Cross for plane crash victims must stay put
Poland's new president Bronisław Komorowski is considering moving a cross set up by Warsaw citizens in front of the presidential palace in Poland to a church. The cross was erected by the citizens spontaneously after they heard about the air disaster in Russia to commemorate the victims. The conservative daily Polska says more needs to be done: "If Bronisław Komorowski really is proposing to do this he must offer more. Poland losing its state leadership as well as its political, administrative and spiritual elite in one fell strike is not something that happens every week, year or even decade. This has to be commemorated. And the spontaneous action of the residents of Warsaw demonstrates clearly that this place - directly in front of the presidential palace - is the most appropriate place for a memorial."
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More from the press review on the subject » Domestic Policy, » Poland
Germans should constantly remind others of their guilt
The daily Dziennik comments on the very critical reactions in Poland to the title story of last week's edition of the German news magazine Der Spiegel. The magazine portrayed non-Germans from several European countries who had a hand in the Holocaust: "There should be a political discussion in Poland about how to deal with texts like the Spiegel article. How should one react? Should we polemicize against it? And if so, how? And in which language? … The truth is that other nations played a substantial role in the Holocaust. … But the German journalists withheld and ignored many things in their text. If you don't remind people of the punishments Poles who saved Jews faced you don't give [the reader] the chance to feel how the atmosphere in our territories was during the war. [The Germans] should weigh every word … and constantly draw attention to their own guilt."
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More from the press review on the subject » International Relations, » Remembrance culture, » Germany, » Poland
End of lustration a further reason for turning away from the Church
The Catholic Church in Poland recently completed its so-called lustration (illumination) during which all priests were investigated for possible collaboration with the communist-era secret police. The commentator Piotr Zaremba thinks this was a bad move, because it has undermined trust in the Church. "Did the prelate Henryk Jankowski work as a secret information source for the communist state security? It looks very much as if he did. Of course, for those who oppose examining the material from that time he is simply a victim of the IPN [Institute of National Remebrance]. But even if they turn a blind eye ... , reality will not cease to exist. It will still be there. I'm not saying that the masses will leave the Church for this reason - there are other grounds for the trend towards secularity. But I do believe that the Church has provided us with a further reason for not placing complete trust in it, and that is sad."
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More from the press review on the subject » Domestic Policy, » Religion, » Poland
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