Andrzej Nowak, the author of the book Where Did Karol Nawrocki Come From?, was Michał Rachoń’s guest on TV Republika. The conversation focused on the book and on remarkable facts from the president’s life revealed in it. “I think this is the most interesting and most important aspect of Karol Nawrocki’s story: showing the real-life experience of a young man who is making his way toward a career and university studies while facing extremely difficult life circumstances,” the historian stressed.
Editor Michał Rachoń noted that the book describes President Karol Nawrocki’s extraordinary memories of September 1, 2009, when Donald Tusk and Vladimir Putin came to Sopot, the late Lech Kaczyński was speaking in Gdańsk, and the current president, then still a student, was working at Sopot’s Grand Hotel.
“When I listened to Karol Nawrocki during the recording of the conversations that make up this book, I had the impression that he did not focus on the aspect connected with domestic and Eastern European politics, in which Poland was becoming dependent on Russia, when he spoke about his work and his difficult experiences of studying while simultaneously holding down two jobs, as a night watchman and, at the same time, as a security guard at the Grand Hotel,”
Andrzej Nowak observed.
He also emphasised what, in his view, is the most interesting and most important part of Karol Nawrocki’s story.
“It is the depiction of the real-life experience of a young man who is making his way toward a career and university studies through extremely difficult life circumstances. Because while students are usually occupied with studying and social life, Karol Nawrocki truly had no time for that. This is not some legend added to his life; he simply had to earn a living for himself, for his family, that is, his mother and younger sister, and later for the family he started in 2010,”
the historian stressed.
As he added, “this struggle with the everyday realities of life, set against the glamour and those ‘pseudo-celebrities’ whom he saw, one might say, through a keyhole, is presented in a fascinating way, in a way that shows Karol Nawrocki never became a butler. Karol Nawrocki was not fascinated for even a moment by that world or by the figures he saw there.”
Among them, the historian mentioned, among others, Vladimir Putin, Maryla Rodowicz, Boney M, as well as many other figures not named individually.