Karl Popper and Conspiracy Theories in Polish Political Thought
Journal: Indiana Magazine of History (Indiana University)
Year: 2013

Over the last century, Polish national discourse and political culture have produced an uncommonly high incidence of conspiracy theories.A similar tendency can be shown to occur among expatriates, even those one or two generations removed from the home land.Two hundred fifty years of partitions between hostile neighbors resulting in deprivation of a national identity, along with systematic oppression by the occupants' secret police, and a tradition of uprisings and mass emigration recurring gene