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How Poland was losing her intelligentsia [19]
Des, I started this topic when I ran into Monia`s thread. To be honest, I had been thinking for a while about a discussion on those multiple occasions that Poland was deprived of her intelligentsia stratum but I kept forgetting. But Monia reminded me of it so I started it at last. Do you understand?
but also to show Polish postwar sad reality where our intelligentsia had to move out of Poland to become a part of other countries elite society , instead of building Poland`s economy and strength
Yes, Monia, that is what I am planning to write about.
Why? I see how Poland lacks truly intelligent people, especially those most brilliant ones. Yes, Poles are generally clever and good at many things but the real progress is made by geniuses with a vision, Like Steve Jobs, for example. Such people are scarce in contemporary Poland.
Polish intelligentsia either perished in mass executions and massacres or left Poland for various reasons and never came back. Instead in Poland, they created made their art, inventions, literature in other countries.
Not only Poland lost so many of them in Katyń - Miednoje massacre but additinally after the war due to so many refugies escaping communism .
I thought of starting from mid 19 century, the time when the intelligentsia class came to being in partitioned Poland.
First loss was caused by November Uprising, 1831 which provoked the phenomenon known in our history as Great Emmigration
Joachim Lelewel (22 March 1786 - 29 May 1861) was a Polish historian and politician, from a Polonized branch of a Prussian family.His grandparents were Heinrich Löllhöffel von Löwensprung (1705-63) and Constance Jauch (1722-1802), who later polonized her name to Lelewel.
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