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Recepcja polskiej myśli zachodniej na Pomorzu Zachodnim w latach 1945–1956

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Małecki A.

Przegląd Zachodniopomorski

2014

issue 4

161-192

The objective of the article is to present the reception of the Polish Western ideas in Western Pomerania in 1945–1956. The author concentrates on the assimilation of the ideas in question and on the popularisation of the information on the Slavic past of Western Pomerania among its inhabitants. After the Second World War the Polish historians, being under political pressure, gave up dealing with problems of the Jagellonian period of the Polish history (in Western Pomerania). Instead, they turned their attention to problems of western ideas. The Polish historians decided to concentrate their efforts on the justification of the legality of Poland’s new western borders and on the confirmation of the Polish character of the Recovered Lands. The people connected with the western ideas denied and belittled the German influences in the past of those lands. They concentrated on the relics of the Piast past of those lands. Those relics, considered to belong to the Polish culture, were to familiarise settlers with the new surroundings. The objective of the people connected with the Polish western ideas was to create a new cultural landscape saturated with the Slavic past of Western Pomerania and its political links with Poland. It was important to generate historical and cultural bonds, and a sense of intimacy of cultural heritage of Pomerania among settlers coming from different parts of Poland. The Polish western ideas in Western Pomerania were based on illusory foundations. Searching for the Polish relics in Pomerania that certified its Slavic past was – in some cases – interpreted in a fairly naïve way. Some groups of Polish settlers were open to the persuasion which was to convince them that Poland had come back to the Piast lands, and such settlers more easily adopted a positive attitude to their new surroundings. Yet, the Slavic roots of Western Pomerania were not so important for the majority of the settlers. There were other factors that counted more than the past. The subsequent generations of the Pomeranian inhabitants took a different attitude: they treated the region as their little homeland. It was just the second generation that was the most susceptible to the Polish western ideas, it was the generation already born in Pomerania. Yet, in Western Pomerania there was no centre to propagate the Western ideas, they were propagated by individual people.

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Recepcja polskiej myśli zachodniej na Pomorzu Zachodnim w latach 1945–1956