BREAKING: In Poland, the thorny commemoration of Rosa Luxemburg, child of the country
According to recent reports, the following story has emerged from the international scene.
LETTER FROM WARSAW Red carnations on the grave of German communist activist Rosa Luxemburg, in Berlin, Germany, January 12, 2014. FABRIZIO BENSCH/REUTERS This time should have been the right one. The town hall of Zamosc had seen things big to celebrate, on March 5, the 155th birthday of Rosa Luxemburg, its local child, born in this small town in eastern Poland in 1871, then annexed by the Russian Empire. The Marxist thinker critical of Lenin was assassinated by paramilitaries in January 1919 in Berlin. A conference and the placing of a commemorative plaque should have been the highlight of the ceremonies around the revolutionary activist, in which the Polish branch of the German Rosa Luxemburg Foundation was to take part, along with a delegation of ambassadors. But if the conference did indeed take place, the affixing of the plaque was ultimately canceled by the municipality. The fault lies with the Institute of National Memory (IPN, Instytut Pamieci Narodowej, in Polish), which had announced a little earlier that this tribute engraved in marble would fall under the “decommunization” law of 2016. The IPN, a public institution responsible for investigating Nazi and communist crimes, had it adopted, at the time when the national conservatives of PiS (Law and Justice) were in power (2015-2023), this legislation prohibits “promoting communism or any other totalitarian regime through the names given to public buildings, installations and equipment”. You have 75.08% of this article left to read. The rest is reserved for subscribers.
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