Jo Harper wrote 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 ([[Law and Justice|PiS]]) and, by implication, a nonpatriotic one ([[Civic Platform|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>
Joanna Michlic states that "according to PiS’s historical policy, the historian can only be a servant of the state who remakes and reshapes history according to the orders of the state."{{sfn|Michlic|2017|p=305}}
