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Our today’s interviewee:
Andrzej Mularczyk (born in 1930 in Warsaw), a writer, screenwriter and author of radio plays. After the war he studied journalism, but education was largely reduced to communist propaganda. Thanks to his brother Roman Bratny's recommendation, he got a job at the editorial board of the "Razem" [Together] weekly. He became friends with Jerzy Janicki (2 years his senior), with whom he travelled around Poland and wrote articles. "Razem" soon merged with the "Pokolenie" [Our Generation] weekly, to serve as the press for the communist youth. The new communist authorities considered Mularczyk and Janicki as suspicious since they were both representatives of the intelligentsia. Their solution to difficult atmosphere at work was going on frequent and long trips to write reportages that would fall in line with the communist ideology. They wrote about an elderly lady from Poronin who once worked for Vladimir Lenin, found an elderly man from Słomniki who once helped Joseph Stalin cross the border between the Congress Poland and Galicia, and they reached the director of a paper company in Wrocław who in 1917 worked as a sailor at the famous Aurora ship. Their articles were received very enthusiastically by the "Pokolenie" editorial staff, but they were never published.
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12 янв 2021
