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Przejawy kryzysu wewnętrznego międzywojennej Francji w świetle periodyków katolickich „Tęcza” i „Dzwon Niedzielny”
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Poland in the interwar period was bound to France by a political, economic and military alliance. The internal situation, and the associated foreign policy of this country in Western Europe, projected the geopolitical situation of the Second Republic, threatened on two sides, by German and Soviet expansionism. Not surprisingly, therefore, the manifestations of France's internal crisis caught the attention of publicists in Poland, including Catholic ones. The Catholic periodicals "Tęcza" and "Dzwon Niedzielny" published in Poznań and Kraków, analyzed and evaluated these manifestations from a specifically Catholic perspective, taking into account not only socio-political, but also religious and moral aspects. It was predicted - as it later turned out rightly - that the pacifism of French society, in view of the impending war, was a harbinger of military defeat. The mental crisis of French society was correlated with the country's consumerist lifestyle, the indirect effect of which was reduced fertility rates and increased abortions, leading to demographic collapse. France's troubled internal political and financial crises incited protests among the people there, especially the trade unions, while also increasing the listening to far-left ideas linked to the country's increasingly powerful communist movement. The anti-religiousness and strong anti-clericalism of the movement was of particular concern in the context of civil war and persecution of the Church, as was occurring in Spain. The need to carry out a "moral renewal" of the French was conditioned on the possibility of emerging from the internal crisis. Some hopes in this regard were connected with the activities of the then numerous Polish emigration in France, which on the one hand was characterized by religiosity and conservatism, and on the other - succumbed to some degree to leftist ideological currents, with the active support of the communist movement in Poland.
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France, interwar, Catholic press, Poland, crisisDetails
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