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Opposition in Poland in the seventies and eighties and emigration environments in the West were connected by multifarious relations. Historical and political emigration literature was one of the elements that formed the opinions of opposition activists in the country. Emigration press was a forum of opinion exchange for them before the independent publishing movement came into being. Since the middle of the seventies, emigration financially supported the opposition in Poland and was the main proponent of its interests in the West. The environment of the independent paper “Spotkania” presents the relations between the emigration and opposition in the country well. The paper came out between 1977–1988 in Lublin. One of the papers’ initiators was Piotr Jegliński who has lived in Paris since 1974. In 1978, he established there a “twin” publishing house – Editions Spotkania, which reedited the paper. During the whole period in which the paper “Spotkania” was published, the main source of financing was the help from the West. Its organiser was Jegliński and the donors were private persons, Polish foundations and also subjects financed by the governmental institutions in the West. Jegliński made many contacts with associations, institutions and private persons who had influence on public opinion in the West. He conducted information and lobbying activities – as, especially after the introduction of martial law in Poland, it was essential to publicise the problem of political repression in Poland, to obtain financial support for victims and to obtain the support of the West for the opposition activity in the country. Jedliński organised propaganda campaigns and happenings together with other circles of Polish emigrants in Paris, among others, the group of people concentrated around the paper “Kontakt” (“Contact”), which was published in Paris. In the eighties, it was essential to maintain social resistance in the country. On Jegliński’s initiative, among others, thousands of miniature publications from his and other emigree publishing houses reached Poland. The environment of “Spotkania” appreciated the enormous informative role played by Radio Free Europe. Over the years, Jegliński and an emigrant Jan Stepek, the editor of “Spotkania”, cooperated with RFE. The goal of the paper “Spotkania” was similar to the one of the Parisian paper “Kultura” (“Culture”). Since the first edition of the paper, editors and journalists stressed the importance of reconciliation and cooperation of nations in the Central-Eastern Europe. The paper also opened its columns to representatives of the Russian and Ukrainian emigration.
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The Father Ludwik Wiśniewski, whilst running the Dominican academic chaplaincy in Lublin in the years 1972-1981, passed on to young people the idea of religious involvement conceived as service for the benefit of society, especially for those, whose rights and dignity had been abused. He assembled round himself a wide group of representatives of various opposition groups, mainly the milieu associated with the independent Catholic youth periodical “Spotkania” (among others Zdzisław Bradel, Janusz Krupski, Wojciech Samoliński, Anna Żórawska) and the Lublin Defense of Human and Citizen Rights Movement (among others Adam Cichocki and Piotr Tomczak). Thanks to that many initiatives taken by the Lublin opposition were extended beyond closed interest groups. The meetings in the chaplaincy also sparked off contacts between opposition activists from Lublin and Gdańsk, where Father Ludwik worked till 1971. Father Wiśniewski himself was not involved in political activities, but he approved of and morally supported such activities among students involved with the chaplaincy, e.g. opposition protests against the undemocratic elections of 1978 and 1980. He himself was involved in matters that were essential for Catholics and important for society; among others he was the participant in the Defense of Human and Citizen Rights Movement. In the last days of August 1980 he was the spokesman for a group of several people involved with the chaplaincy, which took up a hunger strike in Lublin in solidarity with the striking workers on the Coast. It was due to the critics of his public commitments by his monastic superiors that he decided to leave Lublin. The Lublin Security Services assiduously followed Father Wiśniewski’s chaplaincy’s activities and at least since 1974 considered it to be aimed against the socialist system of the People’s Republic of Poland (PRL). In consequence, administrative, political and operational activities were taken up so as to hinder the running of the centre in the short term and in the long term to remove Father Wiśniewski from Lublin. The situation in Poland in August 1980 caused Father Wiśniewski to suspend his idea of creating a permanent independent Catholic youth organisation. But the people involved in his chaplaincy in 1977 started publishing their own periodical “Spotkania”. In 1980 they co-founded the structures of the Independent Self-governing Trade Union “Solidarity” in the country and the Independent Student Union in the Lublin universities and upon the introduction of martial law in Poland operated in the underground structures.
Dzieje Najnowsze
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2022
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vol. 54
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issue 3
131-150
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Gryf Publications Ltd. was established in 1946 in the milieu of Gen. Władysław Anders to carry out the tasks of the independence emigration and the political purposes of the circle. Gryf achieved a position of one of the most important emigration publishing houses. The unstable financial situation, however, constantly necessitated the search for solutions to ensure the survival of the publishing house.
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Firma Gryf Publications Ltd. została powołana w 1946 r. w kręgu gen. Władysława Andersa, aby realizować zadania emigracji niepodległościowej oraz polityczne cele środowiska. Gryf osiągnął pozycję jednego z najważniejszych wydawnictw emigracyjnych. Niestabilna sytuacja finansowa jednak stale wymagała szukania rozwiązań zapewniających przetrwanie wydawnictwa.
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Duszpasterstwo akademickie KUL było najstarszym i największym ośrodkiem w Lublinie, od 1967 r. pełniło funkcję duszpasterstwa diecezjalnego. Na tle innych placówek w mieście wyróżniało się systematyczną i wielopłaszczyznową posługą w środowisku akademickim. Duszpasterstwo KUL w całej swojej powojennej historii było ważnym ośrodkiem kształtowania duchowego i moralnego lubelskiej inteligencji. Oddziaływało masowo, ale także formowało elitę społeczeństwa katolickiego. Jego niewątpliwą zasługą było zintegrowanie tych kilku procent społeczności akademickiej, która uczestniczyła w pracy ośrodka.
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The paper in the synthetic way presents history of the university chaplaincy of Catholic University of Lublin during the years 1944-1989. It was the oldest and the most influential center of pastoral work in Lublin. It discusses the most important forms of activity (religious and intellectual formation, charity work). The author also draws attention to the political context of pastoral activity. The article emphasizes ways and methods the chaplaincy accomplished its essential goal: to create a mature Christians who consciously and responsibly effect on their social environment.
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