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Polish women fight for their rights - manifa and other events [306]
Patrycja Volny, the daughter of the iconic anticommunist opposition singer and poet Jacek Kaczmarski has just published a book about her father. She reveals extremely negative behaviours of him towards herself and her mother. Kaczmarski, addicted to alcohol, is described as an obsessive abuser and even molester. At one moment, mother and daughter had to leave their home and seek shelter in an institution protecting women from family abuse. It happened in 1980s while the family were staying in Australia.
The scandal is double. Firstly, the book and its content ruin the monumental status of Kaczmarski as a legendary bard of the anticommunist opposition. His songs really contributed to the collapse of communism in this part of Europe. I still remember how I recorded his concert aired in FREE EUROPE RADIO in mid 1980s. The quality was terrible coz communists suppressed the signal but it didn`t matter. Later I listened to that concert many times.
Secondly, the scandal concerns people who tried to silence Patrycja Volny and make her stop working on the book. She complains they refused to accept the suffering under her father`s boot as sth important and worth dealing with. She was supposed to shut up so that the legend could live on.