ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the process of the takeover of the symbol of ‘cursed soldiers’ by the Law and Justice Party. It demonstrates how the party elevated ‘cursed soldiers’ to the status of a key memorial symbol in its hegemonic memory project. It considers how the party uses memory politics to construct symbolic national boundaries between us ‘real’ Poles and all the rest. It also discusses the role of ‘cursed soldiers’ as an allegory of the fate of the Polish nation in the context of the discourse of two totalitarianisms and competition for suffering.
