Lech S. Borkowski, Małgorzata Głuchowska: Critical Narrative Analysis

Forty years and hundreds of protests later

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

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