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The author described of this article described the process of isolation of a subgroup of municipal scientific libraries from the larger group of public ones. First public libraries with scientific functions were created on the Polish territory at the beginning of the 20th century and in the 1920s. In the 1960s, after discussions that lasted for over ten years, 8 big public libraries formally got the status of scientific libraries, which was confirmed in the the Library Act of April 9th, 1968. However, due to lacking detailed regulations and appropriate funding, proper functioning of public scientific libraries was hindered in the time of the People’s Republic of Poland.
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The article presents the story of an illegal anti-communist youth organisation called “Armia Wyzwolenia” (“Liberation Army”), which was active among the students of Cracovian secondary schools in the years 1967-1970. The leader of this group was Jan Jarosz (pseudonym “Roger”) – a student of the Primary School number 90 and then Secondary School number 8 in Cracow. The group of 30 students scattered leaflets and painted anti-communist inscriptions on walls (for instance “Katyń – we remember”). As the result of the Security Service investigation the group was exposed. Severe penalties were not applied but the young people were kept under surveillance for many years. The article is based on the rich collection of documents concerning this matter stored in the Cracow department of the Institute of National Remembrance.
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Many of the operational reports concerning so-called „enemy written propaganda” are still in the archives of the Cracow security forces. The most of such cases come from the late 1960s and early 1970s. The preserved materials are a testimony of the growth of the anticommunist opposition for bold actions in 1976 and later. Leaflets distribution, writing on the walls, sending anonymous letters were those spaces of freedom that were willingly cultivated by the defiant. The inscriptions were written on the walls, trains and trams, the leaflets were scattered in the streets, in the parks, dormitories, cafés, the anonymous letters were sent. The collected testimonies of the anonymous street slogans against communist government show how grand organisational problem they were for the officers of Security Service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Rising social opposition soon resulted in strikes and riots in Radom and establishment of the first legal opposition
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