Officially, the "partisans" proclaimed loyalty to
Władysław Gomułka, while in unofficial contacts suggested replacing him with someone more energetic and younger. In fact, the objective pursued was to increase influence in the Polish United Workers' Party, which was combined with the desire to remove the older generation of activists, often of Jewish origin, from their positions. For this purpose,
anti-Semitism and postulates of fight against
cosmopolitanism, contrasted with
patriotism, were used. The support from people of Jewish origin for
Israel during the
Six-Day War in 1967 and the participation of children of some opposition activists in the student protests were exaggerated to this end. The actions of the "partisans" were directed mainly against the remains of the "
Puławianie" group. It is not entirely clear whether the "partisans" were planning to overthrow Gomułka or whether they wanted to secure Moczar's position as a second person in the party. The climax of the role of "partisans" was constituted by anti-Semitic purges in the party and state institutions after
March 1968. The "Partisans" sought to reconfigure the national memory of the
Holocaust where the ethnic Polish wartime martyrdom and suffering would be stressed instead of the emphasis of Jewish victims. This goal to change the narrative on the Holocaust resulted in the rewriting of the 8th volume of the Great Universal Encyclopedia (). The original volume made a distinction between extermination camps in which almost all victims were Jews, and concentration camps where many prisoners were ethnic Poles instead. The "Partisans" accused the authors of
anti-Polonism and had the volume rewritten - in the corrected version, it was instead stated that Poles and Jews suffered equally under the Holocaust. ==References==