Solidarity Slams Anti- Semitism Robotniy 80

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bez icdnych ogreniezer 'Poster for 'Worker "80'-a film on the strikes that led to the formation of Solidarity. effect an attempt to counter the university one, and had an antiemitic flavour.

The following statesent, entitled "The Real Aims of Antisemitic Incidents". , was released on 13 March by Wiktor Kulerski, presidium member of Mazowsze/ Warsaw Region of Solidanity:

"For some time now Warsaw has been a scene of anti-semitic incidents.

Leaflets, posters, bookets and books are distributed in factories and offices, and public. meetings are organised by the Patriotic Association "Grunwald"

Both the printed word and the meetings provoke cial prejudice.

In this campaign, advanbee is being taken of one of be most painful experiences lof our nation: the Stalinist serror and the destruction of the most valuable people who had survived the catadren of the Second World war.

"Zionists"

For the bloody struggle with the Polish people in the years 1944-56 they do not blame the political system, immmasked at the 20th Congress of the Soviet Communist Party, a system faithfully served by the machinery of terror.

The blame is put on the so-called "Zionists"-a term ased to denote the Jews in order to avoid the charge of anti-semitism.

In support of this claim, many names are cited, names of people whose Jewish origin was known at the time and who belonged to the torturers of the then Ministry of Public Security.

As we know, the person directly responsible for the security operations was President Bierut.

But still unknown remain the names and the nationality of the grey eminences, the so-called "advisors" who ruled the whole ministry as they pleased and whose decisions were enforced at the provincial security branches.

The Minister of Security was accompanied by general Lalin himself; to the notorisas department », colonel Featchov was attached.

Concealed

Department III, which dealt with underground organisations, was under the care of Colonel Shaburin; in charge of personnel was Colonel Orekhva and two Colonels, Skulbashevsky and diosnyesensky of the Information Channel, dealt with by the military.

The list of names, Usaf setja cndioner Gandi Sete tt n.ciio sade Leny, antena sti rapcia M.ote cont intenisaas f-own Tao c. dt carefully concealed by those who today blame the Zionists, is long.

Knowing the list, however, it is not difficult to see who had picked up the team officially responsible for running the ministry, the team who carried out the plans of extermination and denationalisation.

It is difficult not to see who and for what reason had seen to it that the group of torturers, who was later to be revealed to the nation, consisted mainly of people of Jewish origin.

This is an old, simple and well known trick: divide and rule. One nationality serves to overcome the other: one provokes mutual hatred and a sense of threat.

It is a very convenient strategem which allows the people really responsible for the genocide to remain behind the scenes, or even, it all goes well, to play the role of friend, guardian or even saviour.

Many recent publications omit names of non-Jews, notorious in those years.

am one toers, the montainst a0Ong Mieczyslaw Moczar, linked with the anti-semitic campaign of 1968-69.

Even if we ignore minor figures of investigating officers known for their sadism, our list would be much longer than previous ones.

Real authors

No, the bloody struggle with the Polish people was not the work of the nonexistent Zionists. Those people of Jewish origin did not plan that struggle, although they were required in play a very conspicuous role in it.

But the real authors and directors the play, together with the wholly native actors, hi ve remained concealed. The efore it is possible d vert public Patet ній attention from them and to direct it at a few specially selected individuals.

Most of the executioners live in peace and quiet, and enjoy the fruit of their bloody harvest. When we realise all this, it becomes clear who provokes antisemitism in our society and why:

If these party secretaries who were putting up venomous anti-semitic leaflets in Warsaw factories and offices and were distributing antisemitic booklets, have suddenly decided to cherish truth and justice, let them reveal the names of all those responsible for crimes perpetrated on the nation in the years 1944-56.

Many of them are not far to seck. They live among us, in our country; only some are just across the border.

If these party secretaries really cherish Truth and justice, let them put up leatlets and distribute books with names of the people responsible for the tortures and killings in the period between 1956 and 1976.

Let them bring about a reissue in millions of copies of the shocking publications "Documents of Lawlessness" and "Madrid Report", , edited by the Social Self Defence Committee "KOR" and published by the independently operating "Nowa"

Here lies the source of their hatred towards these institutions. Let them publish these things and they will not be blamed for complicity and for hiding the criminais.

But this is precisely what they are doing: diverting public opinion from the criminals and beguiling it with alleged Zionists.

Recent press reports about the police investigation against "KOR" workers, the arrests of Adam Michnik and Jacek Kuron, who is one of the advisers of the National C'onsultative Committee of the independent according to the set and well known pattern. First to be arrested will be members of the Confederation of Independent Poland, then the "Zionists" , then the "anti-socialist" elements, after which the time may come for union workers.

And when the man in the street becomes aware of the threat, it will be too late.

Then there will be nobody to raise the outcry, to form committees unions or give interviews which move world opinion. If the people remain passive, the forces of public selfwho have been deprived of care for many long years, or sometimes for ever; everyone who, while still a schoolboy, had a chance to meet the officials of the Ministry of Public Security Koszykowa Street."

On the same day, 13 March, the full presidium of Mazowsze Solidarity issued a statement fully endorsing the above text and expressing its wish to make it public as representing the views of the union.