Why Are Poland’s Nationalists So Popular? Ask a Local Librarian.
She has received grant money to hold a conference on those who were sent to Siberia and another grant for an essay contest
that asks "people to write about what it means to live in a sovereign country." There is also new money for a "patriotic festival." This year marks 100 years since President Woodrow Wilson called for the establishment of a free and independent Polish state, and the ruling party has been preparing for this anniversary for more than two years, she said.
Warsaw POLAND CZECH REP. UKRAINE Slovakia MARCH 2, 2018
A small tower of rusted iron, with an inscription and a cross, astride a small section of railroad, the memorial honors the Sybiracy — the many Poles who were deemed a threat
and deported to Siberia by the Russians after the 1939 invasion of Poland by the Soviet Union.
By MARC SANTORA and STEVEN ERLANGERMARCH 3, 2018
PODGORZE, Poland — This month, the local librarian, Wieslawa Klosinska, helped inaugurate a
striking new memorial in Podgorze, a hardscrabble little village in northeastern Poland.
After more than two years in power, the Law and Justice party
and its leader, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, have reshaped the judicial system in ways that critics say undermines the rule of law.
"In order to turn Poland into a modern state, free from the burden of the past, friendly to its citizens, one needs not two, but at least three terms." He ran promising
that Poland would no longer find itself on its knees, living in fear of Russia to the east and subservient to Germany in the west.
The first thing Law and Justice did was deliver a real benefit: a stipend of 500 zlotys, or
around $148, a month for every child after the first child for every family in the country.