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They were living in Wroclaw, we extremely seldom met up. And when we did see each other we talked about other things. During the elections in 1947 [29] I traveled around Poland as an agitator, and on trains I had to listen to many anti-Semitic opinions.
Not so long ago I heard the opinion of a researcher into the history of Kielce, who claimed that the 1946 pogrom wasn’t the work of Poles but the work of the Russians, that in fact it was someone in the NKVD [30], acting through the SB [31], that had organized the pogrom in Kielce.
There are such theories. It’s understandable; nobody wants to take the blame for something like that, do they? I don’t believe it was a communist provocation. That’s rubbish! Well, where would it have got them?
Not so long ago I heard the opinion of a researcher into the history of Kielce, who claimed that the 1946 pogrom wasn’t the work of Poles but the work of the Russians, that in fact it was someone in the NKVD [30], acting through the SB [31], that had organized the pogrom in Kielce.
There are such theories. It’s understandable; nobody wants to take the blame for something like that, do they? I don’t believe it was a communist provocation. That’s rubbish! Well, where would it have got them?
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Julian Gringras
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