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According to Marek Lasota, a historian at the inr, a reckoning is overdue. It is prerequisite, he says, for "a full knowledge of our own history...
...After this year's flooding and low crop yields, many Poles have a premonition that things can only get worse," says Irena Lasota-Zabludowska, 35, an emigre from Warsaw, now studying at Columbia University in New York City "People are beginning to say, 'This winter we're going to starve.' " In a society where the trade-off for the lack of individual freedom was to have been a steadily improving standard of living, the potential for a political explosion is always present. Explains Teacher Kowalska "The mood in the country is worse than...
...Place for Censorship. Last week Polish newsmen were busily planning a campaign to cut the last strings of censorship and win constitutional guarantees of independence for the press. One of the leaders of the campaign is Eligiusz Lasota, fiery young (29) editor of the weekly Po Prostu, who was resoundingly elected to Parliament last month. His first task in office will be to fight for press freedom. "There is no place for censorship in a democracy," says Lasota. "Without democracy, there is no socialism...
...most courageous journalists in Poland, Lasota has boosted Po Prostu's circulation from 30,000 to 150,000 since taking over as editor in January 1956, says he could quadruple circulation if he had the newsprint. His first act as editor was to fire Po Prostu's staff, since, as, he explained, "It's easier to teach people with ideas how to write than to teach journalists how to have ideas." Packed with ideas, Po Prostu has battled successfully for new youth organizations free of domination by "tired-out" party hacks, attacked Stalinist "reactionaries," urged sweeping reforms...
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