Changing the identity of an intellectual - Andrzej Mularczyk, p. 2. Witnesses to the Age

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Our today’s interviewee:
Andrzej Mularczyk (born in 1930 in Warsaw), a writer, screenwriter and author of radio plays. After the war he studied journalism, but education was largely reduced to communist propaganda. Thanks to his brother Roman Bratny's recommendation, he got a job at the editorial board of the "Razem" [Together] weekly. He became friends with Jerzy Janicki (2 years his senior), with whom he travelled around Poland and wrote articles. "Razem" soon merged with the "Pokolenie" [Our Generation] weekly, to serve as the press for the communist youth. The new communist authorities considered Mularczyk and Janicki as suspicious since they were both representatives of the intelligentsia. Their solution to difficult atmosphere at work was going on frequent and long trips to write reportages that would fall in line with the communist ideology. They wrote about an elderly lady from Poronin who once worked for Vladimir Lenin, found an elderly man from Słomniki who once helped Joseph Stalin cross the border between the Congress Poland and Galicia, and they reached the director of a paper company in Wrocław who in 1917 worked as a sailor at the famous Aurora ship. Their articles were received very enthusiastically by the "Pokolenie" editorial staff, but they were never published.
Copyright by Instytut Solidarności i Męstwa im. Witolda Pileckiego.

[@krystynabien1068]

Dziękuję, bardzo ciekawe, uwielbiam słuchać wszystkich historii na tym kanale. Te historie to cenny dar.

[@MM-bk8np]

Dziękuję za wszystkie filmy ma tym kanale.

[@lucygodfrey141]

Fascinating.

[@redtobertshateshandles]

The old woman in the history department never sent any of it. You were too good, a threat to her job. Top interview, loved it. Luckily my mother brought me up to be in between an intellectual and a worker. I think, but not too much.

[@jazura2]

Wonderful spirit and a chance to pick up one or two more Polish words

[@aleksandrakozio5208]

Dla zasięgu 💕

[@jeremy1350]

Yes, he is quite a character, and a great story teller. A gatherer of stories. How cool was that, in those times, right? Thank you for this story. Is there a part 3?

Soon

[@zbigniewlipinski2963]

In some way maybe it was cool in those times, but not for the people who were imprisoned, questioned, forced to crawl over a harrow put upside-down (like gen. Skalski, Polish ace fighter pilot), or tortured like Witold Pilecki (the "Auschwitz volunteer"), who said before he was executed, that Auschwitz was a child play when compared to what he had gone through in the communist prisons. No harm intended, just wanted to put things in a proper perspective.

[@jeremy1350]

@@zbigniewlipinski2963 you think i dont know this? I do have perpective and understanding. I said it was cool he had hindsight perspective and talking through his experience inventory reminded me of the Gulag Archipelago's writer. Ive studied that time period myself, so I do get it. Pardon me for my bad english thoughts. I guess you did not get my lost in translation.

[@zbigniewlipinski2963]

@@jeremy1350 I just didn't know if you had known about the situation in Poland at that time or not. For someone from outside of the country being unaware of that would not be unusual.

[@carltonpoindexter2034]

@@zbigniewlipinski2963 You mean like most clueless Americans: Don't know, don't care! I sadly say this as an American and you can understand why we have some of the lowest test scores on the planet, but that has been slowly done by design by our Communist educational system.

[@mariuszpuchloski1663]

Panie Andrzeju Takich, jak Pan jest już niewielu..

[@alojzss9230]

Pochodze z Krakowa przeprowadzilem sie i mieszkam obok Slomnik, zauwazylem ze o mieszkancach do dzis mowia Kulony ale dlaczego? wiem z histori ze to bylo żydowskie miasto...

[@stanisawakamuda2293]

Dziękuję 👍

[@Polon_210]

Dziadek ze Słomnik miał nieodzowną szansę zmienić historię.

[@alojzss9230]

Pochodze z Krakowa a dzis mieszkam obok Slomnik, zacząlem sie interesować historia. Miasto podobno zydowskie a mieszkancow nazywaja Ku.... czemu nie rozumiem?