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Reakcja środowiska Instytutu Józefa Piłsudskiego w Ameryce na działania władz komunistycznych w celu rozbicia środowiska polonijnego w latach 1971–1976
Przegląd Archiwalny Instytutu Pamięci Narodowej, No. 12 (2019), pages: 183–202
Publication date: 2023-04-05
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Abstract
In the first half of the 1970s, members of the Józef Piłsudski Institute in America (IJPA) were concerned about the growing interest of the authorities in Warsaw in the Polish emigrant community in the United States. The measures that were taken by the communists were primarily aimed at quickly breaking up the coherence of the independence emigration environment. IJPA activists were worried that the new approach of the Polish People’s Republic to the Polish independence environment in the USA could lead not only to its disintegration, but also to the communists taking over the New York archival and scientific institution. Therefore, they began to discuss the implementation of the project, which was to definitively secure the Institute and its collections. Finally, it was decided to amend the IJPA statute that had been in force since its adoption in December 1943. This issue was returned to several times before the changes were finally implemented and approved at the XXXIII General Assembly of the IJPA members, which took place on March 19, 1976.
