Part 4: Poland’s Culture Wars

The Daily

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🗓️ 13 June 2019

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

In Poland, a nationalist party has been in power for four years. We went to Warsaw, the capital, and Gdansk, the birthplace of a movement that brought down Communism, to see how this government has changed democratic institutions. Guests: Katrin Bennhold, the Berlin bureau chief for The New York Times, and Clare Toeniskoetter and Lynsea Garrison, producers for “The Daily,” spoke with Jaroslaw Kurski, a newspaper editor; Magdalena Adamowicz, a politician and the widow of a liberal mayor who was murdered; and Danuta Bialooka-Kostenecka, an official with the governing Law and Justice party. For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily. Background reading: Poland’s nationalists aren’t seeking to take the country out of the European Union, but to take the European Union out of Poland.With national elections approaching, both the government and its opponents have sought to shape the country’s historical memory.Poland’s governing party has made opposition to gay rights a cornerstone of its campaigning, escalating fears that the divisive rhetoric could translate to violence.

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0:00.0	The my 14, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry.
0:03.0	I was in the rush of my team.
0:06.0	And then I knew.
0:08.0	We started this trip by going to France, where we spend time with these people who were
0:13.0	in the middle of this loose movement without a leader.
0:16.0	A movement that's dying and that for the moment has no hope of really running things in France.
0:21.0	Well, first of all, both of these, for the year late departure this way.
0:24.0	We then went on to Italy, where the frustration of people has been channeled
0:29.0	into another movement, but one that has been successful at actually being elected into government.
0:35.0	But it's only part of a government, part of a coalition government.
0:38.0	They're not running things yet.
0:40.0	In Poland, a nationalist government has actually been in power for four years.
0:46.0	And we're here to sort of see what that does to institutions, what that does to democracy.
0:53.0	We want to see what that looks like.
1:04.0	From the New York Times, this is the Daily.
1:16.0	I'm Katrin Benholdt. Today, Poland.
1:23.0	It's Thursday, June 13th.
1:32.0	So we go to Warsaw, Poland's capital, the biggest city in the country.
1:36.0	You guys want to go on this camp?
1:38.0	We grab a taxi and we head over to see this newspaper.
1:42.0	Is it Viborska? Viborska.
1:47.0	The gazette of Viborska.
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