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<p>The article describes a failed attempt to attribute financial crime – embezzlement of the money belonging to the Greater Poland Headquarters of the Local Council of the Polish Scouting and Guiding Association – to scoutmaster Jan Poplewski. However, from the very beginning, the security services were interested in his anti-systemic activity, i.e. inspiring illegal activities among young scouts in the Stalinist period. This story serves as an example for exploring the underresearched problem of attributing various crimes to the opponents of the system, in order to discredit them and use this fact for propaganda purposes. The scale of this problem is impossible to estimate at present, but sometimes it is possible to describe individual cases – for example the case of scoutmaster Jan Poplewski.</p>
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The article describes a failed attempt to attribute financial crime – embezzlement of the money belonging to the Greater Poland Headquarters of the Local Council of the Polish Scouting and Guiding Association – to scoutmaster Jan Poplewski. However, from the very beginning, the security services were interested in his anti-systemic activity, i.e. inspiring illegal activities among young scouts in the Stalinist period. This story serves as an example for exploring the underresearched problem of attributing various crimes to the opponents of the system, in order to discredit them and use this fact for propaganda purposes. The scale of this problem is impossible to estimate at present, but sometimes it is possible to describe individual cases – for example the case of scoutmaster Jan Poplewski.

Scoutmaster Jan Poplewski – An Example of Attributing Financial Crime to Opponents of the Communist Regime

Studia Historiae Oeconomicae

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The article describes a failed attempt to attribute financial crime – embezzlement of the money belonging to the Greater Poland Headquarters of the Local...

Scoutmaster Jan Poplewski – An Example of Attributing Financial Crime to Opponents of the Communist Regime

Published Online: Feb 07, 2017

Page range: 183 - 192

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/sho-2016-0011

Keywords
scouting, Jan Poplewski, scouting conspiracy, financial crime, embezzlement

© 2016 Bartosz Kuświk, published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

Scoutmaster Jan Poplewski – An Example of Attributing Financial Crime to Opponents of the Communist Regime

Published Online: Feb 07, 2017

Page range: 183 - 192

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/sho-2016-0011

Keywordsscouting, Jan Poplewski, scouting conspiracy, financial crime, embezzlement

© 2016 Bartosz Kuświk, published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

Keywords
scouting, Jan Poplewski, scouting conspiracy, financial crime, embezzlement