CENSORSHIP AND THE KASHUBIAN SEPARATISM. PROVINCIAL OFFICE OF CONTROL FOR THE PRESS, PUBLICATIONS AND PERFORMANCES IN GDANSK TO THE BIWEEKLY "KASZËBË" 1957–1961

Abstract

Gdansk Pomerania supervising the transfer of information was considered very important in shaping the mood among both Kashubians and immigrant population after 1945. Widely understood "topic Kashubian", Kashubian regionalism was a "special" difficult "stretch" for the Gdansk censorship. Censors suspiciously approached the specifics of the Kashubian region, deletions, or assessments periodicals guided by prejudice against Kashubians. Representatives of censorship perceived intelligence community of the Kashubians as reluctant socialist power, as potential supporters of German "revisionism". The term regionalism Kashubian replaced the term separatism. Reluctantly treated deep attachment to their own language, traditions, family, respect for property, a natural in this community ideological and religious conservatism, distrust of "outsiders". The actions of the censors in Gdansk see bias against the community, the specifics and views censors did not understand and did not accept.

As a result of the thaw in 1956, for the Kashubian related to the regionalism recognized the opportunity to speak about their own needs. It appeared in the form of initiatives biweekly "Kaszëbë" published by the Association of Kashubian in the years 1957–1961. Periodical constantly was "suspect" in the eyes of Gdansk censorship, often erected Kashubian journalists objection to promote its pages separatism. The existence of this title was a kind of censorship for the missed time experiment "thaw" extremely troublesome surveillance. None of wybrzeżowych periodicals, was not so "worked on" by the censors. In censorship it was concluded that the magazine did not fulfill reported by its initiators purposes - declarations of editorial work on the approximation of the biweekly problems Kashubians Polish population, according to the Gdansk censorship and the remaining unrealized. This, clearly differed publications "Kaszëbë" many-fits publications, was not appreciated by the censors, and the difference lies in the fact that the periodical raised issues that interested Kashubians. Issuing "Kaszëbë" even without "separatist inclined towards" was discontinued, besides the active participation of censorship, at the end of 1961.