The first days of the lockdown can be, obviously keeping the comparison in proportion and bearing in mind all the differences, likened to the final years of the Polish People’s Republic (PRL), especially the time after the introduction of martial law. The existential common denominators include protracted fear for your own life and health and that of your loved ones, the increased presence of death in the infosphere, reduced possibilities of moving around and contacting others except for your closest family, lack of reliable news about the course of the crisis and a surfeit of unreliable ones, deep economic insecurity, and a drop in income. Some similarities can be observed between both events also on the political plane. The lockdown in Poland coincided with the dramatic electoral campaign, which is very likely to bring about further degradation of the state, its institutions, and social and emotional substance in the coming years. As a matter of fact, we have already noticed the intensification of these processes. The current “Potemkin state”, in a similar way to the late PRL (even if we remain moderate in making comparisons), is a country of ever more intense hatred against those who think differently from the central authorities.