Over a half of Polish people (55%) have heard about the armed groups in post-war Poland, which struggled against the new, Soviet-imposed authorities. Six people in a hundred (6%) describe their knowledge of the subject as extensive, over a third (36%) say it is average, while approximately one in eight (13%) say it is poor. In this context the date of the 1st of March – National Cursed Soldiers Remembrance Day – appears to be barely recognised. Only one person in twenty (5%) seems to have heard of it.

For most (66%) of those respondents who know at least a little about the anti-communist underground, the major source of information is the media (TV, radio, print media or internet – 35% altogether), followed by school, books, films and history events (25%) and, rather rarely, people with an interest in the historical period (6%). The remainder (34%) most often pointed to family members who had witnessed the events (23%), less frequently to other eye-witnesses (8%) and in a very few cases (3%) to their own experience.

More on this subject in the CBOS report.