Potulice


Violence, victims, bondage

The dates all read 1941-45, but political prisoners were held here by the Soviets after the war, and by the Polish state after Jaruzelski declared martial law in 1981. I remember 1981, Jaruzelski, Solidarność – this isn’t ancient history. Memory, forgetting. Resnais, Kundera. Night, fog.

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