Historia magistra vitae est?
Historia Magistra Vitae Est?

Author(s): Hanna Machińska
Subject(s): Gender Studies, Sociology
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: discrimination; history; March 1968; migration; LGBT persons; local government resolutions
Summary/Abstract: Traumatic history often results in successive generations being confronted with answers to questions to which we fail to find a correct answer. But the history in question here, starting with the events of March 1968 in Poland, through the discrimination against people, to the shameful expulsion from the country, is a heavy burden. It is lodged deep within us. Sometimes history results in a repetition of deeds and omissions. Today we are witnessing reactions and shameful actions similar to those of the past. So is history a teacher of life? A different time, different circumstances, different political environment, yet the same deep wounds, the same flaws. They are irremovable splinters that weigh on our consciences.

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