Chcą urządzić masakrę, od której oślepłyby wieki...” – bomba atomowa a kultura Zachodu w polskiej poezji socrealistycznej
They Want to Carry Out a Massacre Which Would Have Blinded Ages...” – The Atomic Bomb and the Western Culture in the Polish Poetry of Socialist Realism

Summary/Abstract: The atomic bomb used in 1945 by the United States disturbed the military and symbolicbalance of the world then. It became a sign of the Western power. The communist propagandasought to neutralize the meaning of a new weapon. The text reconstructs the attemptsof this neutralization and indicates the ways of presentation of nuclear weapons in thePolish poetry of socialist realism.Several motifs can be mentioned here: juxtaposition of the atomic bomb with apocalypticmotifs, highlighting the lack of intellectual and moral qualifications for possessing it,and emphasizing that it is a dangerous by-product of the Western desire for profit. Aboveall, however, the poetry of socialist realism underlined that Western culture is an incomprehensibleand inhuman evil.

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