Is Poland's democracy in danger?

Konrad Schuller also reflects on why the Kaczynskis are defending the anti-Semitic attacks of Radio Maryja, the government's "pet radio station." He attributes their position to the legendary Polish resistance movement, in which the Kaczynskis are also "embedded", having parents who took part in the Warsaw uprising. "Having obtained absolution thanks to this anti-facist resistance, Radio Maryja now claims the right to break with the 'taboo of not saying anything but good things about the Jews.' Unlike the Germans, who cowardly remain silent because the 'Third Reich' broke their moral backbone, this view of things supposedly reflects this nation's strong sense of truth, steeled by resistance. Intellectuals like the historian Jan M. Piskorski are now attacking this Nazism born of anti-Nazism. In the Poland of the Kaczynski brothers, they will need a strong backbone."

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