''Prosto z mostu'' (English: Straight Out) was a weekly magazine, which was published in
Warsaw
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, Second Polish Republic, from 1935 until 1939. Its editor in chief was Stanisław Piasecki, and the magazine was strongly associated with radical right-wing movement
National Radical Camp
The National Radical Camp ( pl, Obóz Narodowo-Radykalny, ONR) refers to at least three groups that are fascist, far-right, and ultranationalist Polish organisations with doctrines stemming from pre-World War II nationalist ideology.
The cur ...
(ONR). In 1931–1935, ''Prosto z mostu'' was published as a Sunday supplement to the ''ABC'' daily, associated with the ONR.
''Prosto z mostu'' presented the works of leading right-wing publicists of Poland in the late 1930s. Among most notable publicists who were associated with the magazine were
Jan Mosdorf
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, ,
Jan Dobraczyński
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,
Józef Kisielewski
Józef Kisielewski (26 January 1905 – 20 July 1966) was a Polish writer, journalist and right-wing politician of the National Party.
Kisielewski was born in Mostyska. He studied Polish Language at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. Aft ...
, , , and Jerzy Zdziechowski. Furthermore, the magazine occasionally featured the works of
Jerzy Andrzejewski
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,
Konstanty Ildefons Gałczyński
Konstanty Ildefons Gałczyński (23 January 1905 – 6 December 1953), alias ''Karakuliambro'', was a Polish poet. He is well known for the "paradramatic" absurd humorous sketches of the ''Green Goose Theatre''.
Biography
Born to a lower-mid ...
and . As in the late 1930s it became more radical, some writers decided to break their ties with it (
Karol Irzykowski
Karol Irzykowski (23 January 1873 – 2 November 1944) was a Polish writer, literary critic, film theoretician, and chess player. Between 1933–1939 in the Second Polish Republic he was a member of the prestigious Polish Academy of Literature f ...
, Boleslaw Micinski). ''Prosto z mostu'' often published provocative, aggressive articles, and was conflicted with the literary group
Skamander
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. Furthermore, the
Sanation
Sanation ( pl, Sanacja, ) was a Polish political movement that was created in the interwar period, prior to Józef Piłsudski's May 1926 ''Coup d'État'', and came to power in the wake of that coup. In 1928 its political activists would go on ...
government frequently confiscated the copies of the magazine, due to radical right-wing contents and criticism of the government. It also featured anti-Semitic articles
While the publication was heavily antisemitic and opposed to presence of Jews in Poland, at the same time it supported alliance with
Zionist
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movement and creation of Jewish state in Palestine, to create an emigration destination for Polish Jews. Zionists were defined as "Jews with national pride and dignity" and the attempt to create a Jewish state as "natural, healthy national Jewish desires .The nostalgia for own state and evacuation from foreign countries".