https://poloniainstitute.net/recommended/a-feminist-gulag/ simpleblogdescriptionhellog Thu, 25 Feb 2021 16:07:57 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.5 https://poloniainstitute.net/recommended/a-feminist-gulag/#comment-1083 Thu, 25 Feb 2021 16:07:57 +0000 http://poloniainstitute.net/?p=6193#comment-1083 This review exposes the intellectual conformism all too common in today’s academia.
One footnote: when the Red Army invaded the eastern kresy, the reception was in fact mixed. Except for a few communists, the Poles resented the incursion, and some landowners and their families were murdered. Some of the peasants, whether Ukrainian or Polish or Byelorussian, did welcome the Reds. Many were later disillusioned, especially when the Soviets attacked the Greek-Catholic (as well as Roman Catholic) Church. The Ukrainian intelligentsia — again, except for the few communists — were very skeptical of the Soviets’ promises of liberation. In addition, the pitiful condition of the Red Army troops shocked people used to the higher cultural and economic conditions of Poland. Ukrainian historian Vladyslav Hrynevych provides interesting details of all this in his recent study of public opinion in the USSR during World War II.
Thank you for this trenchant review.

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