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Jan Józef Lipski - How did the people vote? (18/215)

To listen to more of Jan Józef Lipski’s stories, go to the playlist:    • Jan Józef Lipski (Social activist)   Jan Józef Lipski (1926-1991) was a writer, literary critic, and one of Poland's best known political activists. He fought in the Warsaw Uprising, co-founded the Workers' Defence Committee (KOR), and, from 1987, re-established and led the Polish Socialist Party. [Listener: Jacek Petrycki, Marcel Łoziński; date recorded: 1989] TRANSCRIPT: The list of questions was such that from the point of view of their personal integrity, a great many people were able to answer 'yes'. The questions relating to the basic reforms, of which not everyone was a supporter whether it was an agricultural reform or the nationalisation of a large industry, at the time of the referendum not everything was... later it was nationalised to such a great degree. Not everyone but a great many people were able to accept this quite happily. The issue whether there ought to be two chambers in the senate or one was simply a stupid question because it didn't matter. Mikołajczyk simply wanted to make this issue into a litmus test so that whoever voted in favour of two chambers would be voting for PSL. Then there was the question about the acceptance of the new borders. Again, huge numbers of people in Poland were able to agree to this because the question was phrased in such a way that it seemed to be only asking about the western border. Nevertheless, people's behaviour was varied. My parents voted the way PSL wanted them to vote. However, my grandmother on my mother's side who was a farmer's wife, displayed the radicalism of a farmer, and voted three times 'no', although this was partly on account of my grandmother's nature.