Suchergebnisse

Ausgehend von einer neuen politischen Polarisierung, d.h. der Polarisierung in einen tendenziell autoritären, antidemokratischen Populismus zum einen und einen radikalen Liberalismus zum anderen, wird in dem Beitrag die Befürchtung diskutiert, daß diese neue politische Konfliktlinie über Polen hinaus in Osteuropa Bedeutung haben wird. Drei Wege der Veränderung in Mitteleuropa und in der Sowjetunion werden erörtert: (1) der spanische Weg, d.h. die Vermeidung von Gewalt und Rachedenken im Kontext des Kompromisses zwischen dem früheren Regime und der demokratischen Opposition; (2) der iranische Weg; (3) der libanesische Weg, d.h. Bruderkrieg und Balkanisierung. (ICA)

It was not preceded by a declaration of war. In the course of that December night functionaries of so-called Security rammed at the doors of our houses, broke them down and, distributing blows left and right, blinding us with tear gas, handcuffed us and took us into prisons as internees. We were the first prisoners of war — a war of the Communist establishment against its own people. That night was the first victorious battle of the General who, following in a rather curious way the directive of the Ninth Congress of the Communist Party forbidding anybody to hold more than one post, was at the same time Minister of Defence, Prime Minister, First Secretary of the Party, and now in addition had made himself Chairman of the CROW (WRON, the acronym of the Military Council of National Salvation, in Polish happens to mean 'a crow'). And so his name is now for ever associated with that ugly and stupid bird, the caricature of the national emblem, the eagle.

Aus politischer Sicht

THIS ARTICLE IS A TRANSCRIPT OF AN INTERVIEW BETWEEN JURGEN HABERMAS AND ADAM MICHNIKCOMPARING THEIR VERY DIFFERENT EXPERIENCES WITH THE EUROPEAN LEFT IN A DISCUSSION ON GERMANY "OVERCOMING THE PAST." DISCUSSED IS THE LEGACY OF SOCIALISM, EUROPE AND THE LACK OF COOPERATION BETWEEN GERMANY AND POLAND. SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES ARE ADDRESSED THROUGH QUESTIONS SUCH AS WHETHER THE FALL OF THE WALL AND GERMANY UNIFICATION CAME A SURPRISE AND WHAT IS LEFT OF SOCIALISM IN EUROPE?

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One of Poland's foremost writers and intellectuals gathers together the definitive wisdom and discussion of his country's complex history of anti-Semitism and its legacies.

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