Longin Pastusiak

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Longin Pastusiak (2009)

Longin Hieronim Pastusiak (born August 22, 1935 in Łódź ) is a Polish politician , historian and political scientist , Americanist, functionary in the Polish United Workers' Party (PZPR), from 1991 to 2001 member of the Sejm in the I., II. And III. Electoral term, from October 19, 2001 to October 18, 2005 Senator and Marshal of the Senate in the fifth term.

Scientific activity

In 1959 he completed his master's degree at the Woodrow Wilson School of Foreign Affairs and the University of Virginia in Charlottesville , for which he had received a state scholarship from the People's Republic of Poland . In 1960 he received his master's degree from the Faculty of Journalism and Political Science of the University of Warsaw . He received his doctorate from the University of Social Sciences at the Central Committee of the PZPR in Warsaw . He completed his habilitation in 1967 at the Historical Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences. He became an associate professor in 1978 and a full professor in 1986. After the political change in 1989 he was counted among the "party historians" whose academic career depended on the PZPR.

From 1963 to 1994 he worked at the Polish Institute for International Affairs. He is the author of numerous publications on the USA and Polish-American relations. During the PZPR rule he became one of the leading anti-American propagandists, and in his works he attacked “American imperialism”. The rearmament of the Federal Republic of Germany also served this purpose. The West Germans, he said, represented a constant threat to peace in Europe. In his analyzes of Washington's domestic politics, he highlighted the oppression of African Americans and American communists . He calculated sharply with the US President Ronald Reagan . He also defended the version given by Moscow that the perpetrators of the Katyn massacre did not come from the ranks of the Soviet secret police NKVD , but from the German occupiers .

In the 1990s , Pastusiak came to diametrically different results: In several books he highlighted the tradition of Polish-American friendship. He repeatedly praised the politics of Ronald Reagan, especially his economic course ( Reaganomics ). He hosted the program "The Presidents in Anecdotes" on the public broadcaster TVP1 about the residents of the White House in Washington.

The conservative daily Rzeczpospolita wrote of Pastusiak's change of course: "With his turn-neck he would even put a Tartuffe or Talleyrand to shame."

Political activity

In 1961 he joined the PZPR and remained a member until the party's self-dissolution in 1990. After completing his studies, he first worked in the Department of Propaganda and Agitation in the Central Committee of the PZPR.

In the same year he joined the newly founded Socjaldemokracja Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej (Social Democracy of the Republic of Poland - SdRP), which he joined the Alliance of the Democratic Left (SLD). From the list of this party he was a member of the Sejm in the I., II. And III. Electoral term.

Between 1991 and 1997 he was deputy chairman of his party's parliamentary group. From 1997 to 2001 he was Deputy Chairman of the Sejm Committee on Foreign Policy and Chairman of the Polish delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Western European Union . In 2000 he became chairman of the Subcommittee on Transatlantic Relations in the NATO Parliamentary Assembly , and a year later he became vice chairman of the Socialist Group in the NATO Parliamentary Assembly.

In 2001 he became a senator for the constituency of Gdansk . On October 20, 2001, he was elected Marshal of the Senate. He was a member of the Włodzimierz Cimoszewiczs electoral committee in the 2005 presidential elections. In the 2005 parliamentary elections , he reapplied for a Senate seat , but was unsuccessful. On June 1, 2008 he was elected deputy chairman of the SLD.

In 2013, he was exposed to media attacks because, as President of the Senate, he agreed to a bonus scheme that personally earned him 164,000 złoty (around 40,000 euros).

Private

He is married to Anna Ochab, the daughter of former PZPR boss Edward Ochab , and has a daughter and a son.

Individual evidence

  1. biographical information according to: Longin Pastusiak - życiorys , wp.pl, June 3, 2009.
  2. Kłamstwo katyńskie Polskie Radio , March 12, 2010.
  3. Rola Stanów Zjednoczonych w remilitaryzacji Niemiec Zachodnich. Warsaw 1964. ( The role of the United States in the remilitarization of West Germany ), published by the Ministry of National Defense (MON) of the People's Republic of Poland.
  4. a b Problem niemiecki a bezpieczeństwo Europy. Warsaw 1967 ( The German Problem and the Security of Europe ), published by the Department of Agitation and Propaganda of the Central Committee of the PZPR.
  5. Demokracja po amerykańsku: prześladowania Komunistycznej Partii Stanów Zjednoczonych . Warsaw 1969 ( Democracy in American: The Persecution of the Communist Party of the United States )
  6. Ronald Reagan. Biografia dokumentalna. (1988)
  7. ^ Roosevelt a sprawa polska 1939-1945. Warsaw 1980, p. 98.
  8. ^ Kościuszko Pułaski i inni. Toruń 2003; Prezydenci amerykańscy wobec spraw polskich. Warsaw 2003.
  9. Reaganomika, czyli ekonomiczne prosperity Instytut im. Reagana , February 24, 2012.
  10. Najważniejsi gracze eurowyborów. Okręg I - Gdańsk , wyborcza.pl, April 15, 2014.
  11. Zaremba zamiast Katona , rp.pl, July 5, 2014 (" Swą obrotnością potrafiłby zawstydzić Tartuffe'a i Talleyranda .")
  12. Longin Hieronim Pastusiak website of the Polish Senate.
  13. Marszałkowie wycofali się z premii , rp.pl, September 20, 2013.

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