Lech Borkowski My comment on the article Hard rain as 100,000 defy autocrat’s police in Belarus by Gareth Browne in The Times, 7 September 2020. The ‘protests’ occur, because that’s what political technologists agreed on. The Communist dictatorship has been painstakingly built over several generations by now. It is very well oiled and controlled in all spheres … Read more
My comment on the article Belarus protesters defy Alexander Lukashenko with show of solidarity by Nick Holdsworth in The Times, 31 August 2020. This is a polit-soap opera played in slow motion, product of Communist political engineering. There is no independent political life in Belarus. The ‘protests’ are staged and the entire spectacle is a … Read more
My comment on the article Putin has no good options in Belarus by Andrew Foxall in The Telegraph, 25 August 2020. Lech Borkowski 27 Aug 2020 2:49PM I see my earlier comment was removed. Interesting. The Belarus protests are completely phoney. The social control in Communist countries is total and there is no social activity … Read more
My comment on the article Belarus rebels must act while Putin wavers by Roger Boyes in The Times, 26 August 2020. Mr. Boyes represents self-limiting journalism. Roger Boyes refers to Solidarity in Poland and calls it a ‘self-limiting’ revolution. This concept is a Communist lie. Communists themselves created fake opposition to their own regime. The … Read more
My comment on the op-ed article The Times view on anti-Lukashenko protests: Minsk on the Brink in The Times, 24 August 2020. This article’s analysis is carried out without understanding how Communism worked and continues to work. Belarus is a Communist, totalitarian country. The alleged ‘opposition’ to Lukashenko’s rule come from similarly privileged Communist class … Read more
My comment on the article Belarus protests: It’s hard to sleep hearing the screams of people being tortured by Patryk Jaracz in The Times, 18 August 2020. You need to distinguish between the grotesque and the reality. The article is grotesque. My father was a prisoner in the Brest citadel in 1945. Cries of men … Read more
My comment on Michael Binyon’s Belarus has gone its own way without the fires of nationalist rage in The Times, 22 August 2020. The author writes about his visit to Belarus in 1967. I was denied permission to see my relatives in 1984. The author was clearly acceptable to the Communist authorities. I was not. … Read more
I recorded this ride on the Red Army Street, ulica Armii Czerwonej, in Krosno Odrzańskie, Crossen and der Oder, on 2 May 2016. Isn’t this interesting and important that Communist street names have been left unchanged in this town? Their presence contradicts the official narrative about the collapse of Communism. The names were changed in … Read more
My comment on Tony Brenton’s article Another martyr for democracy is the last thing Vladimir Putin needs in The Telegraph, 20 August 2020. Lech Borkowski 21 Aug 2020 2:35PM Western analyses of events and situation in Russia and elsewhere in the Eastern Bloc are formed on incorrect assumptions. While they are formally correct within the … Read more
My comment on The Times view on the Belarus protests: Lukashenko at Bay, 18 August 2020. This is kids’ stuff. Political technologists in Belarus and elsewhere in the Eastern Bloc are laughing their heads off. It works every time. Western analysts and newspaper editors can’t get enough of it and each time they believe the … Read more
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 … Read more
Angielska wersja tekstu: On mechanics and engineering of Communist academic management. 25 września 1963 komunistyczna gazeta Trybuna Ludu opublikowała listę nowo mianowanych profesorów uniwersyteckich. Decyzja była podpisana przez członków Rady Państwa, ciała kolektywnego odgrywającego rolę prezydenta państwa. Nominaci byli promowani z odpowiedniego niższego szczebla hierarchii akademickiej. Od tej reguły było jedno odstępstwo. Teobald Olejnik z … Read more
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 … Read more
Polish version of the text: O mechanice i inżynierii komunistycznego zarządzania uczelnią. On 25 September 1963, the Polish Communist daily Trybuna Ludu printed the list of about fifty newly nominated university professors. The decision was signed by members of the State Council, with this collective body playing the role similar to that of the president … Read more
My comment on LGBT protest upstages Duda’s swearing-in as Polish president by Oliver Moody in The Times, 6 August 2020. My report from Poland on that day would be completely different. I would first note that the day before, on August 5, the Polsat News tv channel broadcast an advertisement for a model kit of … Read more
My comment on the article The Pope is Beijing’s unlikely admirer by Dominic Lawson in The Sunday Times, 26 July 2020. 4 August 2020 I would like to take issue with a couple of items in this article. the pre-eminent Catholic commentator George Weigel On May 14, 2020 The Wall Street Journal published a false … Read more
My comment on Heart of darkness: classified tapes offer a glimpse into inner workings of the Stasi by Oliver Moody and Sabine Schu in The Times, 15 July 2020. So the woman on tape was an East German Communist Party member and she was teaching the Freie Deutsche Jugend, the youth wing of the SED, … Read more
My comment on Bumbling Stasi agents made up reports and put lovers on payroll by Oliver Chu, Sabine Schu in The Times, 11 July 2020. Reports of demise through incompetence are exaggerated. Stasi papers as reputable source?. You need more than that to make a case. There is plenty of evidence that the ‘collapse of … Read more
The third of my comments following Twilight of Democracy by Anne Applebaum, review: a querulous and flawed analysis of Europe by Philip Johnston in The Telegraph, 26 July 2020. Lech Borkowski 31 Jul 2020 2:07AM In September 2011, at the time when Anne Applebaum’s husband was Foreign Minister in the Donald Tusk government, Polish authorities … Read more
My two comments on Twilight of Democracy by Anne Applebaum, review: a querulous and flawed analysis of Europe by Philip Johnston in The Telegraph, 26 July 2020. Lech Borkowski 26 Jul 2020 7:04PM Putting it mildly, you have been misinformed by both Anne Applebaum and her husband Radek Sikorski on Poland and the rest of … Read more