Year: 2017
Type: article
Abstract: m y s ł a w c z a p l i ń s k i a w a r o f s h a m e s e s s ay s O ctober 25, 2015, just after the early results of that day's parliamentary elections were announced, the leader of the victorious Law and Justice (PiS) party stated: "[…] never again will we have to be ashamed […]."1Less than two months later, Polish President Andrzej Duda stated at the official ceremonies marking the 45th anniversary of the events of December 1970: "[…] we are ashamed of the Third Republic of Poland for its inability to prosecute after 1989 the perpetrators of these crimes.We are simply ashamed, nothing less.I think I speak for 1 MK, "Prezes PiS: Panie Prezydencie, melduję wykonanie zadania!," Gazeta Wyborcza, October 25, 2015, accessed March 15, 2016, http://wiadomosci.gazeta.pl/wiadomosci/1,147565,19085077,wybory-parlamentarne-2015-relacja-live-ze-sztabow-wyborczych.html/."Let me be clear: the law will be enforced.We will pursue the truth.But there will be no revenge, no negative emotions, no personal politics, no retribution, no kicking people while they're down, even if it's their own fault and they deserved to fall.[…] We have to show everyone that public life in Poland can be different, that it can be something to be proud of.That we'll never have to be ashamed in front of those young people sitting in the Sejm gallery, witnessing what's going on down there.And we've been ashamed on more than one occasion, through no fault of our own.
Source: Teksty Drugie
Author: Przemysław Czapliński
Institution: Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań
Language: Slovenian
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W2912553722