"I asked the students which of the fathers of Polish independence... ordered the Katyn massacre. The answers are shocking and show what a decay the Polish education system is in," reads the description of the film. And indeed the young people questioned on the video took turns to point to Jozef Pilsudski or Roman Dmowski as the answer. Only two said "none of the two". And they were of course right.

The Katyn Massacre (a.k.a. Katyn, Katyn Forest) was committed in the spring of 1940 by the NKVD following an order given by the highest authorities of the USSR. The execution of nearly 22,000 representatives of the Polish elite was carried out by shooting them in the back of the head with small arms. The victims were then buried in mass graves in Katyn near Smolensk.

Dzik argues that our education system is responsible for the tragic level of students' knowledge of Polish history. "The episode of my show is not meant to ridicule young people. It is to ridicule our 19th-century system of education, after which - as research shows - we remember about 5 per cent of knowledge; where there is a cult of grades, and not whether the child learned anything at all from such a lesson," explains the youtuber.

The youtuber also slaps parents who, according to Dzik, only pay attention to their children's grades and not to their actual knowledge.

"The video is also meant to ridicule parents who don't give a damn whether their child has really memorised the basic facts of Polish history [...] Because for parents the only thing that matters are ‘the numbers’ in the school register [...] The fact that a child won't remember anything after three days doesn't matter to them," claims Leslaw Dzik.

Mr Dzik has finally hit out at history teachers who fail to impart knowledge the right way.

"The aim is to ridicule burnt-out history teachers, whose lessons mostly consist of sitting down and making the child rewrite the textbook. It is supposed to ridicule the idea that if you give kids even more material, books, exercises and textbooks, they will be smarter," he further explains.

The youtuber believes that in order to improve young Poles' knowledge of the country's history, a revolution needs to be made in the Polish education system.

"If the school teaches with outdated methods and after all these years is still based on the old Prussian education system, it doesn't matter what is in the core curriculum. The child will forget everything anyway. Take that into consideration, Mister Czarnek [Polish Minister of Education - editor's note] and you, the people who set the core curriculum in Poland, too", he adds.

Dzik also points out that teachers should attach more importance to the value of specific subjects. After all, not everyone will be an outstanding mathematician, but such basic facts as the execution of the Katyn massacre by the USSR should be known to everyone.