My comment on the editorial article Is this the end for Europe’s last dictator? in The Telegraph, 11 August 2020.
Lech Borkowski
11 Aug 2020 4:38PM
We have been here before. Poland, for example, has seen hundreds of protests and hundreds of strikes. As a first-year student, I participated in a two-week student sit-in in Toruń, protesting about undemocratic methods of the Communist regime.
Forty years on, it is clear that the protests, strikes, and demonstrations in Poland in 1980-81 have been engineered by the Communists themselves, who have not lost control even for a minute.
When my wife and I tried to use rights, democratic and legal tools theoretically available to us in recent years, it turned out that they are nonexistent in the same way as forty years earlier.
I don’t see how Belarus would somehow turn out differently. The Communist deception runs very deep.
@LechSBorkowski