ABSTRACT
This chapter shows that, although Poles generally supported a radical approach towards transitional justice, they were also driven by conflicting impulses, and that dealing with the communist past was not, on its own, an especially salient issue. However, the lustration and file access issue recurred in public debate, in part at least, due to popular demand for more radical truth revelation, because the issue was often considered in conjunction with other concerns about the short-comings of post-communist democracy and became strongly linked to political identities and ideological alignments.
