Published: 2025-12-15

Rhetorical meanderings. The strategy of ‘Trybuna Ludu’ regarding the murder of Father Jerzy Popiełuszko

Dominika Rafalska
Gdańsk Studies
Section: Artykuły
https://doi.org/10.26142/stgd-2025-007

Abstract

The aim of the article is to analyse the narrative of press publications in ‘Trybuna Ludu’ on the abduction, death and funeral of Father Jerzy Popiełuszko and the Toruń trial in which his killers were sentenced. The newspaper devoted a lot of attention to these events. Articles on the subject appeared almost daily in the last quarter of 1984. How was the case reported? Who was given a voice in the coverage? Can the content published in the largest Polish daily newspaper of the time be considered ‘genre-pure’? What means were used to turn the tragic death of a priest brutally murdered by Security Service officers into an element of the struggle of the ‘enemies of socialism’ against the ruling system in Poland and a political provocation?

Keywords:

Jerzy Popiełuszko, Security Service, ‘trybuna Ludu', political assassination, propaganda

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Rafalska, D. (2025). Rhetorical meanderings. The strategy of ‘Trybuna Ludu’ regarding the murder of Father Jerzy Popiełuszko . Gdańsk Studies, 56, 91–104. https://doi.org/10.26142/stgd-2025-007

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