The celebration of June’56. Emilewicz on Jaśkowiak’s speech: It was inappropriate – Politics – News from the country and the world – Dziennik.pl – Events and Facts

During the speech at Poznańskie Krzyż President cities Jacek Jaśkowiak he encouraged “by putting into practice the will of the participants of June” to try to oppose any abuse of power. He also asked whether today, as in folk Poland “one is not trying to impose a single catalog of ideas in all areas of social life.”

Present at celebrations Deputy Prime Minister, minister development Jadwiga Emilewicz she said that occurrence Jaśkowiak “was very out of place and completely inadequate”. I think it could offend, offend people who at that time, deprived of real freedom, deprived of the right to self-determination, actually sought this freedom She judged.

She added, Poznan June is “the first uprising of freedom in post-war Poland; the first time when Poles said bread, but in fact they said freedom.” It is very important that in times of freedom we remind ourselves that this is not something given once and for all. That freedom must be cared for in peace and always sought for it – she emphasized.

Deputy head MSZ, Poznań MP MP Szymon Szynkowski aka Sęk, commenting on Jacek Jaśkowiak’s speech during the anniversary celebrations, said that “it was beyond common sense, highly inappropriate and distasteful”. His brain is affected by some prejudices, stereotypes – said the deputy minister about the president of Poznań.

He added that Jaśkowiak is trying to juxtapose the authorities with the current situation, “which goes to the street in tanks, tortures people, shoots workers, which announces repression and has the entire apparatus of repression to implement them”.

In the opinion of Marek Woźniak, the Marshal of the Greater Poland Voivodeship (PO), references to today’s situation in Poland in Jaśkowiak’s speech, “they were delicate, but they unambiguously pointed to the threats that stem from the fact that one political option gains all the elements of the system, which leads to the inability to control it.”

These threats in Poland are obvious they exist. The procedure for winning new institutions has been carried out consistently for over five years. Saying it here is a warning – Woźniak told PAP.

In his opinion, such warnings should be given in public space.

It should rain, because you can overlook some facts, and then it’s too late. Then the only way to regain civil rights is a revolutionary method, which is always very socially costly and may it never be repeated in Poland – said Woźniak.

The voivodship marshal emphasized that although the situation in present-day Poland cannot be directly compared with the situation of Poland in the 1950s, “throughout history, the authorities tend to monopolize all decisions in their hands, block the opposition and deprive foreign political elements of self-control “.

On June 28, 1956, the workers of Zakład Cegielski, then Stalin, undertook a general strike and organized a street demonstration, bloodily suppressed by the militia and the army. Workers’ Rebellion went down in history as Poznan June. During this time 58 people lost their lives, about 240 people were injured. About 850 people were detained and arrested.

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