„Naprawiacze” w Obozie Zjednoczenia Narodowego
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After the death of Piłsudski and the dissolution of the Non-party Block of the Co-operation
with the Government (BBWR) - in the period of the aggravating decomposition of the post-May
camp, the group of „Naprawa” (in the years 1926-1939 known subsequently as: Związek Naprawy
Rzeczypospolitej - the Union of the Amendemend of the Republic, Zjednoczenie Pracy Wsi
i Miast - the Union of Labour of Villages and Cities, and Związek Działaczy Społecznych - the
Union of the Social Activists) - tried to play a role of the programme creating centre
concentrating the dispersed Pitsudski’s supporters. In aspring 1937 the „Amendators” supported
the founding of the National Unification Camp (OZN) and joint it. The aggravating international
situation of Poland convinced them to support the idea of the national consolidation under the
leadership of the „successor of the Commander” (Piłsudski) - General Inspector of the Military
Forces - Edward Rydz-Śmigły. Initially „Naprawa” proclaiming the necessity of the political
dialogue between the Pilsudski’s supporters and the Polish Socialist Party, Polish Peasant Party
and Polish Labour Party as well as the idea of the tolerant state policy towards national
minorities, played the role of the inner opposition within the OZN. It opposed the national and
totalitarian tendencies that dominated in the leading circles of the Camp. In the years 1938-1939
when the personal changes in the leadership of the OZN had been already completed and the
political position of the Camp had been shifted into the direction of more moderate state-national
ideology, the „Amendators” won quite a considerable influence on the shaping of the programme
and the acitivity of the Camp. It seems they considered the OZN as a decadent form of the
post-May system of ruling of the country embodied by the authoritarian dictatorship of the
Pilsudski’s supporters. They stressed the necessity to democratize in an evolutionary way the
political relations in the country. Referring to the slogans of the strong state, stabile democracy
and social justice they tried to create the political centre with and ideological programme clear and
attractive for the electorate.
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