Talk:1968 Polish political crisis

message: All the above are merely someone's suggestions, that anti-Semitism was the core issue of the events of 1968 in Poland. Supporters of this claim include Aleksander Kwaśniewski :D (for an average Pole anything this fellow supports is possibly fishy; former PZPR member BTW). When it comes to details, it shows that the whole thing was down to a competition between 2 fractions of Polish communist party (PZPR) - so called "partyzanci" and "komandosi" - the former being a nationalist fraction and the latter - a cosmopolitic one. Both sides used various propaganda against each other, including accusations of anti-Semitism on the one side, and of Zionism on the other. Extrapolating this game into a supposedly contry-wide Polish - Jewish conflict and suggesting there was anti-Semitism, understood as a sociological phehomenon, involved, is an absurd. Rationale? Mind that in these days the majority of Polish society were in favor of Jews in their conflict with Arabs, even though Arabs were officialy supported by the Polish government. Only a small minority of Poles was responsible for the suffering of Jewish people in the result of March 1968 - those who wanted to reach their political goals by using anti-Semitic rethorics, simply due to the reason that their opponent fraction had a big number of Jews among their ranks. If those were, let's say, British, anti-British slogans and repressions would come into play. As to references - Eisler, Jerzy: Polski rok 1968. Warszawa, Instytut Pamięci Narodowej, 2006.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.27.15.103 (talk) 14:50, 14 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: That's all PZPR's political intrigue

message: It seems the article needs some expansion and the header needs rewriting.  The current header states:
The March 1968 Events were a series of state-organized anti-semitic campaign in People's Republic of Poland under the pretense of anti-Zionism that drove out most of Poland's remaining Jewish population.  
That was certainly a major component of the March Events. However, the phenomenon is better described as a large scale political crisis in Poland which involved significant student demonstrations and their brutal suppression, a power struggle inside the Communist party, and an organized campaign against many intellectuals not holding to the party line, in addition to the anti-semitic campaign.
It seems to me that, if one wants to focus specifically on the anti-semitic component of the March 1968 events, it should be done in a dedicated, separate article. Balcer 18:24, 19 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Balcer, I think the reason is that the article actually grew out of the History of the Jews in Poland article, so the effort went into the effects on the Jewish community.  The article then got further expanded because of comments like those by the anonymous user above, claiming that there was no anti-Jewish campaign, which forced the article included even more about anti-Semitism to avoid revisionist attacks. If someone wants to take a stab at adding the other, quite important, issues in, that would be great -- I can try when I have time as well. --Goodoldpolonius2 18:33, 19 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Article scope

message: I suggest a title that will be more communicative to those not conversant with Polish history:  "Polish 1968 political crisis."  logologist 03:32, 6 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: What about Polish March 1968 political crisis? March component in name is fairly useful, in that case, I think.--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus Talk 02:05, 25 November 2005 (UTC)
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message: I know showing is better than telling, but the apologist tone of anti-semitism section is embarrassing. So Jews left Poland because they don't want to live in a communism country, and at the same time, they're imposing Communism on a country resistant to it? This sort of doublethink just show how Poles are still incapable of coming to terms with their past. I'm taking out the assertion that anti-semitism is caused by the so-called zydokomuna. It's flat out wrong, since anti-semitism was intense in Poland prior to 1939.  --Chernyshevsky (talk) 16:30, 12 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Anti-Semitism in the PRL 

message: The article uses both the Polish acronym PZPR and the English acronym PUWP for the Polish United Workers' Party, which could be confusing to readers unfamiliar with the subject (like me).  PUWP is used in a quotation in the section "Antisemitism in the People's Republic of Poland" (although the citation needs to be improved); PZPR is used in the "Aftermath" section.  I don't know much about Polish history, so I don't know which acronym is used most often in English-language sources on the subject.  If the Rozenbaum quotation is accurate, perhaps the PZPR usage in the "Aftermath" section should be changed to PUWP.  Alternatively, if PZPR is used most frequently in English-language sources, the phrase "the ruling Communist Polish United Workers' Party (PUWK)" should be changed to "the ruling Communist Polish United Workers' Party (PUWK, or PZPR in Polish".  The article shouldn't use both acronyms without explanation. —Josiah Rowe (talk • contribs) 14:37, 5 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  PZPR or PUWP? 

message: This article fails B-class, if barely. Referencing "Aftermath" section should be enough to upgrade the rating. More pictures would help, too. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk  04:56, 9 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: C-class

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message: I have removed some journalistic slogans: "a party boss", "thundered" etc., but the article has to be reedited for POV and grammar, e.g.: 
 A media campaign of besmirching the targeted groups and individuals was conducted from March 11. The Stalinist and Jewish ("non-Polish") roots of the supposed instigators were "exposed" and most printed press participated in the propagation of slander...
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message: User:JackintheBox, could you change agglomerations which is a big Latin word that is hard to comprehend to locations or something else in understandable English? Kyivgw (talk) 11:29, 18 October 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Hi, since I'm a native English speaker I don't think 'agglomeration' is hard to comprehend; in fact it's not even a rare word. But since you suggested it, I'll change the word to 'cities' since it is simpler. Regards JACKINTHEBOX • TALK 11:43, 18 October 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Agglomerations? Why not locations?