Word: kasprzycki
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Jerzy Kasprzycki, Polish journalist and television commentator, said the fear that Germany might someday attempt to re-occupy territory lost to Poland after World War II increases Polish resistance on Soviet armed strength. Territorial guarantees from the West, he declared, would ease tension between Poland and Germany, and allow Poland to formulate a more independent foreign policy...
...Kasprzycki remarked that after centuries in which Polish youth worshipped national military heroes, the present high school generation has made the Soviet osmonauts its models. The change in their attitude reflects a general recognition within Poland that the nation must adjust to the "concrete and probably irvocable reality," of Russian influence. Polish military heroes, martyred for patriotism, can no longer be held up as national ideals for in an age of atomic weapons, as Kasprzycki put it, "there is no longer a place for reasonless heroism...
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