Memory and (No)Memory of the Eastern Borderlands in the PRL. The example of Lviv
Journal: Philosophical Discourses
Year: 2019

The article is about the memory of the Kresy Wschodnie (Eastern Borderlands) in post-war Poland. As a result of the settlements of the peace conference in Yalta, Poland lost half its territory in the east. Censorship in PRL prohibited the talk about the history of eastern Polish provinces. Kresowianie couldn’t speak loudly where they came from, in the place of birth, communist wrote them to the USSR. Kresy Wschodnie were considered the cradle of patriotism and traditional values – traits associa