Was Polish Cold War Exile an Exceptional Phenomenon?
Was Polish Cold War Exile an Exceptional Phenomenon?
Was Polish Cold War Exile an Exceptional Phenomenon?"
Prof. Sławomir Łukasiewicz, Catholic University of Lublin
Fulbright Visiting Scholar, Harvard University
Following the genocide and occupations of World War II and the beginning of the Cold War, more than half a million Polish émigrés stayed in the West. This was both an exceptional phenomenon and also part of a larger migration out of Central and Eastern Europe, under pressure from two totalitarian states, Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. There are, therefore, more universal lessons to be drawn from this experience. This talk will answer the question to what extent Polish exile was, or was not, an exceptional phenomenon against the global backdrop of the Cold War.
Lunch will be provided