Zagrożenie radzieckie w publicystyce Stanisława Cata-Mackiewicza okresu II wojny światowej
The Soviet threat in the journalism of Stanisław Cat-Mackiewicz during the Second World War

Summary/Abstract: Stanisław Cat-Mackiewicz was among the best known Polish political journalists. A conservative, monarchist and supporter of Józef Piłsudski, in the interwar period he took sides with a small group of advocates of cooperation with Germany against the Soviet Union. During the Second World War he fiercely criticized the government of Władysław Sikorski and Stanisław Mikołajczyk, especially their policy towards the USSR, accusing them of gullibility and underestimation of the Soviet threat, though he also initially deluded himself that an unyielding policy on the issue of Poland’s eastern border could be successful. Over time the tone of his journalism became explicitly pessimistic. Mackiewicz posed as a realist, but he was largely guided by emotions, particularly by attachment to his homeland, areas which the USSR demanded from Poland.

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