I often say how horror is to browse bookstores in Poland, so here you have some examples. Cathegory “history”, new publications in last month or so.
From the left:
- “Great disappointment, genesis of solidarność revolution.” - i was like “it’s understatement of century to call solidarność only disappointment” but then i remembered it’s Poland and of course the “great disappointment” in title is about the PRL in 70’s.
- “Crimes of communism are not talked about” - uh huh, dozens of books overflowing in every bookstore and probably thousands in catalouges don’t exist.
- “The hell in eastern front. Diary of a German soldier” - likely clean wehrmacht myth
- “Freedom, Equality, Genocide” - not even French Revolution is safe in Poland
- “Hostages of hell” - a tale of three poor innocent Polish soldiers who volunteered to invade Afghanistan and were so traumatised by that hell so they signed up for another tour and now they tell us how bad it was. Typical vet propaganda like in US.
- “Gramsci, that is the suicide of revolution” - Main thesis is that Gramsci was really a fascist and thus every modern marxist is also a fascist.
There’s also around dozen of less suspicious books. And i’m not even covering other cathegories like philosophy (zero materialists), biographies and diaries, political science, sociology etc. etc. You will find nazi normalisation and casual anticommunism en masse in literally every genre even in romance books. Maybe except children’s books, but i wouldn’t bet on it.
And that’s every month, for 33 years by now. Actually this one is on the tamer end of spectrum, the “cucumber season” (summer slowing of the publishing market) is clearly coming.
Unfortunately, the situation is largely the same in many countries. Especially the previously socialist European countries that are now in EU/NATO.
I mostly just go to second-hand bookshops where a lot of the good older books can still be found.
Same. Also in last few months prices of new books in Poland went up like 50%.
Yep, same here and not just books.
Wejście do Empika to katorga z powodu tego gówna, ani jednej książki o tym okresie w sekcji historii która ma jaką kolwiek wartość.
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(For english speaking comrades) Every visit to Empik is a test in endurance because of this shit, not even a single book in the history section about this period has any value whatsoever.
With small exceptions, for example Grunberger “Social History of 3rd Reich” surprisingly got new edition lately, but yeah. At least the flood of cursed collaborators somewhat lessened lately, but on the other hand there is even more anticommunist fiction peddled as history lately, like the fucking Ossendowski slander on Lenin gets reprinted over and over and over.
With small exceptions, for example Grunberger “Social History of 3rd Reich”
Well that’s something I’ll definitely check out, without paying Empik of course xdd
