Zbuntowani Polacy i zbuntowani Węgrzy. Porownajmy dwoch bratankow

Abstract

Usually the Poles and the Hungarians are considered as the nations following similar ways of historical development. The author aims to compare these two ways as far as the revolt against communism is concerned. The background at the end of the Second World War was different in two countries and the Stalinism was harsher in Hungary than in Poland. Even before the Soviet intervention, the Hungarian revolution of 1956 was more aggressive than the Polish movements against the communism. It may be that the Hungarian dramatic experience led Poles to be more cautious in their conflicts with the regime. In both cases the most important point in the mechanism which helped the formation of the opposition to the communism was the link between the social protest and the rising of the banner of national independence.