Litwa w programie wschodnim paryskiej "Kultury"

ENThe Eastern concept, maturely shaped by Juliusz Mieroszewski in the 1970s, is a permanent contribution to Paris „Kultura” in the Polish political thought of the post-war emigration. Some elements of this concept are still valid in the foreign strategy of the.Third Republic. The roots of the program can be found in Jerzy Giedroyc’s interest in the policy towards national minorities in the 1920s and 1930s and his fascination with the figure of Marshall Piłsudski, whereas its primary sources can be found in the historic genealogy of the Giedroyć family. The core of the Eastern concept was the belief in the collapse of the USSR due to internal, national, liberation movements, and the emergence of new Eastern neighbors of sovereign Poland, i.e. Ukraine, Lithuania and Byelorussia. The authors of , Kultura” recommended it both to the emigres and nationally so that a multi-dimensional effort was undertaken to defalsify the common history of this area and relations between both nations as well as to overcome mutual distrust resulting from the stereotypes. They had at their disposal the single tool of the program, i.e. the „word”, and they were involved in a broad range of political journalism; with respect to Lithuania they referred to the situation behind the iron curtain, the situation of Poles in Lithuania and Lithuanians in Poland, and the ways to restore independence. These trends were also reflected in „Zeszyty Historyczne”. The paper provides an extensive journalist exemplification of this issue and invites the reader to take a look at contemporary Polish-Lithuanian relations from the perspective of assumptions made by Jerzy Giedroyć.