Those born after about 1980 grew up in the demolition, with no memory of what came before. So unless they had parents or close relatives who taught them recent political history, it was easy to swallow the comforting lie that the wreckage all around them was really part of a renovation. Necessary to fix the terrible, broken "Polish shipyard" the country had been before they were born.

https://thedailyblog.co.nz/2017/02/26/hey-shamubeel-why-are-you-rewriting-our-history/

The rest of us lack the luxury of such political amnesia. The grief is ongoing.

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