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Jörg Hackmann concludes that "a major interest of [the] current historical policy by the government led by the PiS party is to put Poles and Jews upon an equal level of victimization... In internal politics... the main goal is taking control of institutions by PiS and marginalizing opponents through shaping a monolithic view of the ethnic Polish nation, which appears as the first victim of Nazi and Soviet rule... From such a perspective the impact of the Jedwabne debate... has to be competed with, because it has been motivated by an aspiration for “disgrace”... In a similar perspective the notion of critical patriotism... was dismissed as politically naïve and harmful. In addition, it has been assumed that the government’s memory as well as past politics serves as auxiliary means for securing majorities on other fields of politics..." Hackmann further concludes that "internal as well as international polarization is a major driving force behind the current official Polish memory policy... it seems that the general goal behind this historical policy is not so much turning the wheel of time back and to revive an antisemitic discourse... but to establish a new national vision that equals the Holocaust with the genocide of Poles, or with other words aims at “de-Judaizing the Holocaust”.{{sfn|Hackmann|2018|pp=604-606}}
Jo Harper writes that "the PiS agenda has been clear: Poland will stand up for itself, will look at and raise arguments about things that affected Poles, but will defend against any criticism of Poles in relation to (Polish) Jews, Ukrainians, and other minorities... A central collective theme in this version of the national narrative—one that PiS attempts to exploit—is again of a morally clean nation that witnessed horror but was not an active collaborator in it. There persists a large rump in Polish society, and a series of raw cleavages, both defined by attachment... to the historical narrative of cleanliness. It is precisely along these cleavages and to (and for) this rump that PiS seeks to function, obliging waverers to choose between a patriotic party (PiS) and, by implication, a nonpatriotic one (PO)."<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Harper |first=Jo |date=2010 |title=Negating Negation: Civic Platform, Law and Justice, and the Struggle over “Polishness” |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.2753/PPC1075-8216570402 |journal=Problems of Post-Communism |language=en |volume=57 |issue=4 |pages=29 |doi=10.2753/PPC1075-8216570402 |issn=1075-8216}}</ref>
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