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People the Soviets planted in Poland [75]
In Poland they decided to run the underground press and legitimise the anti-system credentials of certain individuals. The byword was credibility. Opposition figures had to look and smell like opposition figures. They also had to be slightly conservative, holding back the more extreme elements and maintaining some sort of cohesion that steered away from rampant populism, which by its very nature is unpredictable and uncontrollable.
So where does the ducks' father figure here? A life-long commie collabo.
So where Minister Bartoszewski figures in this airhead construction?
In Poland they decided to run the underground press and legitimise the anti-system credentials of certain individuals. The byword was credibility. Opposition figures had to look and smell like opposition figures. They also had to be slightly conservative, holding back the more extreme elements and maintaining some sort of cohesion that steered away from rampant populism, which by its very nature is unpredictable and uncontrollable.
This reminds me why the Polish church is not exactly in favour of opening the old SB files to everybody - IPN has to be able to blackmail the appropriate people.