NATIONALIST POPULISM AND POST-COMMUNISM

number of ethnic minorities, the “traditional” minorities like the Germans, Jews or the Ukrainians were significantly present in the discourse as “if they were really there”. This might lead us to the assumption that the patterns of addressing the public through political discourse remained very similar, despite the different ethnic structures of Poland and Slovakia. The electoral success of the parties handling nationalism instrumentally somewhat proves this assumption. On the other hand, the continuing populist usage of nationalism in the post-election period shows that nationalist value orientations have an enduring viability and are present as a frequently used instrument for political battles, while also serving as the pillar of self-identification among political parties and their leaders.

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