– If Mr. Nawrocki became president, it would be to the detriment of Poland and its citizens – said Professor Grzegorz Motyka, member of the College of the Institute of National Remembrance – Commission for the Prosecution of Crimes against the Polish Nation. In an interview with Wirtualna Polska, he confirmed the opinion of Professor Antoni Dudek, who stated that “Karol Nawrocki is one of the most dangerous people who have appeared in Polish public space.”
Political scientist and historian prof. Antoni Dudek at the end of the year in the Liberal Culture podcast from the “The Right to Nuance” series, he talked about Karol Nawrockiwith whom he worked at the Institute of National Remembrance in the past. – This is an extremely dangerous man, and I say this as a person who has been observing Polish politics for over 30 years. This is one of the most dangerous people to have appeared in Polish public space, he said.
Dudek's opinion was confirmed on Friday by prof. Grzegorz Motyka in an interview with a Wirtualna Polska journalist in the “Newsroom” program. – Professor Dudek knows it perfectly Institute of National Remembrance. He knows what happened to him in recent years and he simply would not want the same thing to happen to the entire Polish state if President Nawrocki became president – he explained. In his opinion, “this would be to the detriment of Poland and its citizens.”
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Brutal firing of employees at the Institute of National Remembrance
When asked why exactly Karol Nawrocki is dangerous, Motyka replied: – I was on the Council of the Institute of National Remembrance for several years, and now I have been in the College of the Institute of National Remembrance for a year. During this year, more employee matters were discussed in the College than in the previous few years in the IPN Council. Each time these were situations involving employees who were brutally thrown out – he explained when asked what exactly the statement that Nawrocki was “dangerous” meant.
– I was very impressed by a slightly earlier case, which brought back memories in the form of court cases, where three employees of the Institute of National Remembrance from the Lustration Department (…) were fired by the president (Nawrocki – ed.) because they had the “daring” to laugh. at a meeting with the president, when he said that all IPN employees earn great salaries and received great raises – added the professor.
Motyka explained that within a month after these events, the women were removed from their positions and were not reinstated. He added that two of these workers were “single mothers with children.”
As we read on the IPN website, prof. In June 2023, by decision of the Senate, Grzegorz Motyka became a member of the College of the Institute of National Remembrance – Commission for the Prosecution of Crimes against the Polish Nation. Since 2016, he has also been the director of the Institute of Political Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences. He conducts research on Polish-Ukrainian relations 1939–1989, the fight against the resistance movement by the Soviet security apparatus Lithuania, Latvia, Belarus, Ukraine and Estonia in the years 1939–1953, the policy of the security organs of the Polish People's Republic towards national minorities.
In the spring of 2024, by decision of the Minister of Defense, Prof. Motyka also became the director of the Military Historical Office.
Karol Nawrocki in Bemowo Piskie (9/01/2025) Tomasz Waszczuk/PAP
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