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Youth Conspiracy Organization (1959-1962). Ideological rebellion during the 'little stabilization'
Aparat Represji w Polsce Ludowej 1944-1989, No. 1(17) (2019), pages: 197-215
Publication date: 2023-03-28
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Abstract
The establishment and activity of the Youth Conspiracy Organization became a pretext for writing an essay which tracks the fate (and analyses the attitudes of) a group of young people from Przemyśl during the Gomułka period. In trying to understand the complex social-political reality they lived in, we need to see that they referred both to new cultural trends coming from the west, and war experiences of their loved ones. In some cases they referred to their own experiences of repatriation. Because of their place of residence and family stories they were influenced by both the trauma of the Soviet occupation and the consequences of the post-Yalta geopolitical system, in which Poland played the role of a USSR satellite. In this reality their rebellion against the adult world and socialist realities of life took on a clear anti-communist message. Evidence of this can be found in the leaflets distributed in Przemyśl and discussions held during meetings of organisation members. It remains a testament to the attachment of young people to the idea of freedom and independence as well as opposition to the attitudes of conformism and adaptation to the contemporary political system, presented both by their peers and the older generation. This history also illustrates working methods of the Security Service while invigilating illegal organisations.
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