And the presentation of the 1956 revolution will also be modified. The Hungarian-Polish Joint Committee of Historians of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences expressed its protest.
The new Polish framework curriculum to be introduced by the Polish National Ministry of Education in 2024 will bring serious changes to primary education. The changes also significantly affect history education - reports the Hungarian Forum .
According to the committee, the draft treats Hungarian-Polish historical relations adversely. XIV–XV. were removed from the framework curriculum. century Polish-Hungarian relations, as well as the reign of István Báthory, with particular regard to his foreign policy, and the presentation of the events of the 1956 Hungarian revolution was also modified.
In their opinion, the removal and modification of topics has a bad effect on the development of students' regional awareness and narrows the knowledge that can be obtained about Polish history.
István Báthory was elected king of Poland as a Hungarian and Transylvanian prince. Historians are of the unanimous opinion that his election was one of the best decisions of the Polish Sejm of the era. Báthory reformed the outdated tax system, reformed the administration of justice - thereby curbing corruption - implemented land reform and modernized the army.
The success of his reforms is proven by the fact that he fulfilled his promise and defeated IV. Russian Tsar Ivan's armies, thereby postponing the later Russian hegemony in the Baltic region by at least 100 years. It is no coincidence that almost every Polish settlement has a street named after Báthory, and the first high school of the independent Polish state in Warsaw was also named after him in 1918.
- says the committee in its resolution.
They add that the story of the Hungarian revolution of 1956 is not exclusively a Hungarian story. On the way to the revolution, the Hungarian and Polish processes were closely connected and influenced each other.
When there was a change in the Polish political leadership on October 19, 1956, and Wladyslaw Gomulka was elected as the head of the country, the Hungarian public demanded similar changes in Budapest as well.
- they write.
Hungarian and Polish historians who are familiar with the resolution also agree. On the Hungarian side, among others, the MTA, ELTE, HUN–REN BTK, Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Corvinus University and the University of Debrecen; from the Polish side, the staff of the Tadeusz Manteuffel Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences, the Jagiellonian University, the University of Wroclaw, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University or even the University of Warsaw signed the document.
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