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No Heat, No Hot Water? Crown Heights Leads The City In Complaints |
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Residents at 1,264 buildings in Crown Heights filed formal complaints regarding heat and hot water issues between September 2018 and August 2019, more than in any other neighborhood in New York City, according to analysis of Localize.city, a website which aggregates publicly available information on residential buildin... |
The data presents troublings findings for Brooklyn’s renters at the beginning of the heating season, which officially started on October 1. |
Brooklyn overall had the second highest number of complaints for heat and hot water issues out of the five boroughs, with 67,554, second only to the Bronx, and had the highest number of buildings where complaints were filed out with 11,053. Five of the top ten neighborhoods with the highest number of buildings with com... |
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Buildings with most complaints in the last 12 months, according to 311 data crunched by Localize.city. |
Further, five of the top ten individual buildings with the highest number of complaints were located in Brooklyn. The highest of the Brooklyn buildings was 9511 Shore Road in Bay Ridge, which logged 1,026 complaints in the 12 month period; this was the second highest of any building in the city, trailing only a buildin... |
The report said that 311 complaints regarding heat and hot water had originated in 32,436 buildings across the city, and that more than a quarter of those buildings are at risk of having similar issues again this year. |
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Local Memories Dismantled: Reactions to De-communization in Northern and Western Poland |
23. Mar 2018 |
Nancy Waldmann is a freelance journalist for German print media, writing regularly on Poland. During her studies at European University Viadrina she developed an interest in questions of memory and identity in European and postcommunist contexts and became involved in Institute for Applied History. From August to Novem... |
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In September 2017, bulldozers tore down the mausoleum in the Polish town of Trzcianka built in memory of Soviet Red Army soldiers. Two months later, the Monument of Gratitude for the Red Army (Pomnik Wdzięczności dla Armii Radzieckiej) in Szczecin, the capital of Western Pomerania, was demolished. One week later, the s... |
Dominated by the conservative Law and Justice (PiS) Party, the Polish government has recently moved to dismantle communist-era monuments as part of the so-called process of de-communization. In Poland, the term ‘de-communization’ describes the comprehensive attempt to re-write recent history as a strictly anti-communis... |
The monuments intended for demolition can be found all across the country: some are dedicated to the victory of the Red Army over Nazi Germany; others demonstrate gratitude for the liberation of Poland by the Red Army during the Second World War. Memorials to Polish-Soviet friendship (“Brotherhood in Arms”) and to form... |
There is a particularly large number of such monuments in northern and western Poland, which only became part of the country in 1945, when the state border was shifted westward and formerly German cities became Polish. According to some Polish scholars, the inhabitants of these regions have a distinct, largely positive... |
The legal foundations of contemporary de-communization in Poland |
Central to the current de-communization process is law no. 744 “on the prohibition of propagating communism and other totalitarian regimes” (Zakaz propagowania komunizmu i innych totalitarnych ustrojów). The law was passed almost unanimously by the Sejm on 1 April 2016.[2] In its original version, it was only concerned... |
The new de-communization law was supplemented with a list of 469 monuments all over Poland that fulfilled the criteria for removal; the list was prepared by the Polish State Institute of National Remembrance (IPN) and the voivodes (regional administrations). The primary justification for this drastic move was that the ... |
It is important to note that the new legal provision does not apply to monuments on military cemeteries, nor to objects exhibited for artistic or educational purposes. In contrast to some reports in Russian media, Soviet military cemeteries remain protected. But the situation is not always so clear-cut – for instance, ... |
If municipal governments fail to carry out the law’s provisions by the deadline, the voivode can order the renaming of streets and the removal of monuments. The IPN plays a decisive role in this process. Once the deadline has passed, the government can request that it compile a report in order to determine whether or n... |
The law thus constitutes a serious violation of the jurisdiction of local municipalities, which normally make decisions about re-naming streets and maintaining or removing monuments (at least so long as doing so does not involve international treaties). However, the current process of de-communization is not just a top... |
Removing monuments to change the historical narrative |
The above-mentioned removal of the monument of gratitude to the Red Army on Polish Soldier Square (Plac Żołnierza Polskiego) in Szczecin ended two decades of local debate over the future of the object. One of the reasons for this extended debate was the monument itself and what it represented. Featuring two figures, on... |
In early 2014, an initiative of 23 local, mostly right-wing organizations, including groups of former Solidarność activists, the far-right organization Obóz Narodowo-Radykalny (ONR), and the local football fan club, appealed to the mayor to remove the monument. For them, the monument to the Red Army honoured the “aggre... |
The removal of the monument in Szczecin is exemplary of what has happened in many other cities in the region. It demonstrates that de-communization is not just a process imposed on municipalities from above, by the PiS-dominated central government, but that it is often wished and carried out from below by local grassro... |
In this sense, the policy of de-communization might be seen as an effort to close a chapter of post-1989 Polish history that was marked by recurrent public and political quarrels over how to deal with the relics of the PRL era. These quarrels were as much about how to assess the period between 1944 and 1989 as a whole ... |
For those who subscribe to this expanded understanding of totalitarianism, the heroic monuments built by the Soviets or the PRL authorities as expressions of ‘gratitude’ towards the liberating Soviet Army are unacceptable. For them, they deserve the same treatment as monuments representing National Socialism. Proponen... |
Local resistance to the dismantling of monuments: the case of Drawsko Pomorskie |
Despite enjoying the considerable support of local authorities and civil society organizations, the dismantling of monuments and re-naming of streets in recent months has also been met with some resistance. A particularly dramatic instance of an unauthorized attempt to change a monument in order to preserve it took pla... |
In order to save the monument and keep it in its original location, the municipality first considered re-naming it, and then considered declaring it an outdoor exhibit of a nearby museum. The IPN’s response to these attempts to preserve the site was to seek the removal of the tanks with the proviso that they would lat... |
Before the discussions could reach any conclusion, the mayor of Drawsko made a unilateral decision of how to protect the tanks and monument from impending destruction: Workers with pneumatic hammers removed the inscription, the Soviet star and the slabs depicting fighting soldiers. The now bare pedestal was covered ove... |
Regional inconsistencies and the meaning of 1945 |
In the formerly German western and northern territories that only became part of Poland in 1945, de-communization and the revised narrative of Polish history associated with it have generated considerable inconsistencies. The reason is that 1945 was a year of radical transformation for this region, and is a key date in... |
What is going to happen to the founding myth of the “regained lands” after de-communization? The situation in the Western Pomeranian town of Nowogard can give us a clue. Local right-wing groups have been agitating for several years against the town’s Monument to the Brotherhood of Arms, which was erected in 1972. The n... |
Streets with 'calendar names' |
Another regional inconsistency in the implementation of the de-communization policy occurred when streets named with dates of historical significance were re-named. In almost every town in western and northern Poland, there is a street remembering the 18th of March, 1945, the date of Polish liberation, or, more neutral... |
Further complicating the matter is the historical fact that the First and Second Units of the Polish People’s Army participated in battles against Nazi Germany in 1945. These units were formed by Stalin in the Soviet Union in 1944. Polish soldiers were recruited in Siberian labour camps, where thousands of people from ... |
This historical complication came to the fore in the case of the ‘Park and Square of the 18th of March’ in the Pomeranian city of Kołobrzeg, which was occupied by the First Polish Army (with support from Soviet units of the First Belorussian Front) in 1944 after two weeks of heavy fighting. As part of the public outcry... |
The names commemorate citizens of the Republic of Poland – soldiers who fought against the Germans and fell during the battles for Kołobrzeg on March 18, 1945. Regardless of how their blood and soldier’s credit was used by political players, to which their fighter’s units were subordinated, most of them, like the domin... |
Thus, in towns that were occupied by the First or Second Polish Army units, the 'calendar names' of streets can be kept. Meanwhile, in towns, where the soldiers of the First Belorussian Front or other Soviet units entered, the Street of the 18th of March has to be renamed. In this sense, the IPN sanctioned “depreciatin... |
In Gorzów, the capital of the Lubuskie Voivodeship, the city council was supposed to rename the Street of the 30th of January, which marks the day in 1945 when units of the First Belorussian Front occupied the largely abandoned city of Landsberg (renamed Gorzów soon thereafter) without much of a fight. Many German civi... |
Another example of local opposition to the re-naming of streets took place in September in Szczecin. The IPN concluded that the Street of the 26th of April – an important arterial road in the city – violated the new law and thus would have to be renamed. But this time, the voivode did not comply with the institute’s op... |
[o]n 26 April 1945, Szczecin was captured by the 65th Soviet Army lead by General Pawel Batow. [...] On 28 April 1945 Piotr Zaremba, appointed as Polish president of the city, came to the city with the consent of the occupation authorities. The occupation of Szczecin was the beginning of building the Polishness of our ... |
Although the remarkable text presents a counter-position to the opinion of the IPN, it speaks a similar language: Polishness is the central point of reference, not liberation from the Nazis. In framing their argument in this way, the city council managed to save the street’s name, but only by adhering to the narrative ... |
Conclusion |
Robert Traba describes the emotionally charged Polish conflicts over memory as a symptom of an un-processed trauma caused by the war. According to him, '1945' is a code word for the alleged 'return' of the Poles to their homes after the war. However, as it turns out, such a return never really took place, because the p... |
In principle, de-communization as a form of memory politics is supported by large swaths of Polish society. In some cases, the new laws have allowed municipalities more freedom to plan city centres by relieving them of the obligation to preserve controversial monuments. Judging from informal debates on social media, ho... |
Indeed, de-communization directly deals with the events of 1945, and it makes an indirect judgement about the historical break of 1989 and the compromising character of the Round Table. One expression of de-communization are the local re-definitions and metamorphoses of political monuments discussed here. The new polic... |
Footnotes |
1. Andrzej Sakson, Polsko-rosyjska wojna pomnikowa? Konflikty o upamiętnianie II wojny światowej, in Pomiędzy pamięcią zbiorową a historią, Rekonstrukcje przeszłości w Europie Środkowo-Wschodniej, edited by Patrycji Bałdys, Iwony Jakimowicz-Ostrowska and Janetty Charuty-Kojkół, Gdańsk: WN Katedra, 2016, pp. 23–36. |
2. Ustawa z dnia 1 kwietnia 2016 r. o zakazie propagowania komunizmu lub innego ustroju totalitarnego przez nazwy budowli, obiektów i urządzeń użyteczności publicznej, Dziennik Ustawa Rzeczypospolitej Polkiej, poz. 744, tom 1 (06 January 2016), retrieved 15 March 2018. |
3. For a discussion of de-communization, including examples from Szczecin, see the author’s blog: Nancy Waldmann, Mały notatnik badawczy, Dekomunizacja (28 September 2017), retrieved 15 March 2018. |
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