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Despite significant progress of pertinent research, the events of March 1968 continue to a large extent to be the stuff of myths. Regardless of the publication of the extensive and well-documented monograph by J. Eisler, they are still perceived from the central, Warsaw-based perspective, while knowledge about the 'provincial' March remains slight. Although researchers concur in their descriptions (albeit not always assessments) of, e.g., the mechanisms decisive for the so-called anti-Zionist campaign, have relatively well recreated the course of the student protest, and recognised the thesis about the generational character of the protests, there still remain certain domains which call for further in-depth studies of source material and the posing of new questions. They include solidarity campaigns conducted in secondary schools, the consequences of March '68 in schools of higher learning, or the verbalisation of protests in the provinces.
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One of the factors that made the eruption of anti-Semitism in March 1968 possible was the turn toward nationalism in the public discourse in the mid-1960s. The most important element of that process turns out to be a dispute over symbolic rule and the definition of national identity in connection with the celebrations of the Millennium of Polish Statehood, celebrated simultaneously by the State and the Roman Catholic Church (Millennium of Poland's Baptism). Despite the fact that the positions of the Church and the Party were seen as opposite ones, the areas of the dispute and its profound categories were shared by them. A nation exists outside history and its interest do not change with the passage of years. Each side wishes to portray itself as the sole advocate of the strivings of the people. A deviation from some mythical centre line is regarded as treason and the image of the nation is based on its juxtaposition to its implied enemies. Although the Communist Party and the Church define them differently, it turns out that the Jews become part of the equation either way.
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