My comment on the opinion article This is Belarus’s moment — let’s back it by Edward Lucas in The Times, 17 August 2020.
It is one of those articles telling readers that noise is a signal. There is no difference of interest between Lukashenka and the ‘opposition’. The conflict about vote counting is fake.
Communist regimes have implemented a method of creating fake conflicts to engineer a change of scenography and making it believable to western audiences. This is an old method by now. It has been played so many times before. Nothing new. It is mostly empty symbolism.
There is also no difference of interest between the ruling classes in Poland and Russia. The Polish public narrative is subservient to Russian/Communist interests. Communism has not disappeared. It is simply camouflaged now. Democracy and individual rights are as nonexistent as forty years ago.
As a first-year student I participated in a student sit-in during a wave of protests in Poland in 1981. I was skeptical about the people’s will to oppose the dictatorship, but decided to give it a try.
The Communism allegedly ‘collapsed’ later in Poland. That’s the official version, based on media spectacles and confused interpretations of some of the most basic facts. In reality, the power remained in the same hands and methods of repression remained the same as well. My skepticism was proven right.
My wife and I have been expelled from our jobs in Poland, from state school of music and from university, respectively in 2015. The methods used against us are exemplary of classic Communist modus operandi. My wife was officially declared by a state agency to be mentally unsuitable to do her job despite being the best piano teacher among nearly 20 piano teachers in the school. The favorite Communist methods of liquidating people standing up for human rights, rule of law, and democracy, involve provocations and are masked, with plenty of falsification. The aim is to avoid leaving the most obvious evidence of repression.
The state authorities carried the campaign against us for years. There were plenty of witnesses around us. There was not a single helping hand. Not even one. Had Communism indeed collapsed in Poland, things would be different. We have been liquidated in broad daylight. We have written many letters to the top authorities and to the MPs. Their non-answers were written in a typical Communist bureaucratese.
My parents were Polish citizens imprisoned in Communist concentration camps in northern Russia in the area of Arkhangelsk. My father deserted from the Communist Army in January 1945 before the military oath was taken. He was held until 1954 and spent another two years in exile in northern Russia. My mother was held from 1949 until 1956. Both of my parents opposed Communists and paid a heavy price for it.
My father’s family had a farm in the village of Krejwańce in the Oshmiana county. My mother’s family had a farm in the Brasław county. Communists have confiscated their property. This part of eastern Poland has been occupied by the Soviet Union after WWII and is now within Belarus borders.
I fully support the choice and decisions my parents have taken. This is the reason for my elimination from the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, where I was the only faculty member with a western PhD.
In the State School of Music in Zielona Góra, where my wife was employed, the current head of the piano section is a Russian import from Leningrad.
The people who were in the forefront of the action against us, were guaranteed full impunity and received promotions. You can meet them in church these days.
I just watched a youtube video produced by the ‘opposition’ in Belarus. An experienced observer will notice obvious falsehoods and will be able to detect deception.
The West’s gullibility seems to have no bounds.
@LechSBorkowski