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The author of the article discusses the creation — in three successive historical periods — of the image of the 1919–1920 war between the Second Polish Republic and the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, referred to as the Polish-Soviet War, Polish-Bolshevik War, Polish-Russian War, 1920 War. The name, description and opinion about the war — in the Second Polish Republic, in the Polish People’s Republic and in Poland today — depends on propaganda objectives, current politics and attitude to Poland’s eastern neighbour. The image of the war of 1919–1921 is highly ideologised, as is evidenced by the choice of words and metaphors used to provoke emotions, to provide strong value judgements with regard to the enemy and thus to control society’s behaviour as well as create myths and stereotypes which are kept in the collective memory for a long time. The history of this armed conflict has been and still is written under the pressure of various ideologies and propaganda strategies. The aim of the article is to demonstrate that the image of wars in verbal accounts (history textbooks, historical monographs, literary works, oral histories etc.) and visual accounts (paintings, films etc.) depends on the historical context, socio-political determinants as well as the point of view of the individual creating the narrative of a given event. The shaping of collective memory is always accompanied by value judgements, selection of events and strong emotions.
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The aim of the article is to present the struggle for power in Poland during the Nazi occupation and the first few years following the Second World War. The Polish Workers’ Party, taking advantage of Stalin’s support, seized power, using the fait accompli method. Power was seized and consolidated through propaganda campaigns carried out in the press and by means of leaflets and brochures. The Manifesto of the Polish Committee of National Liberation was a document establishing a new political system and beginning an appropriation of the language by one party, which, through censorship and coercion measures, ensured for itself unlimited power over the form and content of all open communication. In the hands of an authoritarian government language became an omnipotent tool of manipulation used to enslave society.
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