My short comment on the article Headbutted and kicked in the ribs — Belarusian police gave me a taste of the brutality meted out to protesters by Gareth Browne in The Times, 19 October 2020. Polish version: Autor nie zaimponował. Sorry, but I am not impressed. Those without experience of reality in Communist country might … Read more
My comment on the article Putin has become tangled in his own web by Roger Boyes in The Times, 20 October 2020. Polish version: Dziesięciolecia błędnych artykułów. “He finds Lukashenko embarrassing and ducked out of at least one meeting with him in Moscow, yet under pressure from Minsk he has put the Belarus opposition leader … Read more
The second of my two comments on the article Taiwan academics told to identify as Chinese in journal by Charlie Parker in The Times, 10 October 2020. Polish version: Uniwersytecka myśl w obcęgach. The academic world in Communist countries executes strictly instructions from the authorities. They avoid usually admitting it, but there should be no … Read more
The first of my two comments on the article Taiwan academics told to identify as Chinese in journal by Charlie Parker in The Times, 10 October 2020. Polish version: Sowietyzacja Europy. “Its position has prompted outrage from leading academics in Britain, who have demanded that Springer Nature stop partnering with journals that operate under rules … Read more
My comment on the article Belarus protests: Thousands take to streets of Minsk as Olympian Yelena Leuchanka is arrested by Gareth Browne in The Times, 5 October 2020. Polish version: Poza horyzont poznawczy. These demonstrations are staged. Communists went far beyond the cognitive horizon of a typical western observer. The West cannot comprehend that the … Read more
The untold story of Edith Tudor-Hart: ‘grandmother’ of the Cambridge spies by Charlotte Philby in The Telegraph, 3 October 2020. Wersja polska: Ocieplanie wizerunku agentów totalitaryzmu. When thinking about woman’s bravery, I prefer my mother, who was imprisoned by the Communist henchmen in eastern Poland occupied by the Soviet Russia after WWII. She was ‘tried’ … Read more
My comment on the article Auschwitz museum chief offers to serve Nigerian boy Omar Farouq’s hard-labour sentence by Jane Flanagan in The Times, 30 September 2020. Mr Cywiński is more of a political functionary than a museum director. Here is part of my comment following the The Sunday Times article Holocaust novelists blur Nazi fact … Read more
My comment on the article Exploring Poland’s Lake District by Emma Thomson in The Sunday Times, 27 September 2020. Polish version: Narracja komunistyczna w The Sunday Times. The article is representative of the Communist narrative. This is a region whose inhabitants either escaped or were expelled later in a totalitarian action. Practically the entire population … Read more
My comment on the article Exploring Poland’s Lake District by Emma Thomson in The Sunday Times, 27 September 2020. The article is representative of the Communist narrative. This is a region whose inhabitants either fled or were expelled later in a totalitarian action. Practically the entire population of this large region was purged. The region … Read more
My comment on the article Hackers identify Belarus’s masked security police to pressure President Lukashenko by Marc Bennetts in The Times, 21 September 2020. Polish translation of the comment: Dyktatura statyczna czy dynamiczna. Communist dictatorship controls all spheres of life. Private life is eliminated. You cannot trust anyone. There is no social capital. What we … Read more
My comment on the article Pope Francis ‘naive’ in deal with China to name bishops by Tom Kington and Didi Tang in The Times, 19 September 2020. Polish translation: Czerwona gwiazda nad Watykanem. This is nothing new in the Vatican. Earlier popes appeased Communists in Eastern Europe in a similar way. It was done under … Read more
“All the Pravda That’s Fit to Print”. My comments on the article Meet Maroš Šefčovič, the steely former communist who imposed the EU’s Brexit deadline by James Crisp in The Telegraph, 11 September 2020. Lech Borkowski 13 Sep 2020 4:14PM This article reads like The London Pravda. Let’s see… towering, basketball-loving, polyglot, wise choice, embroiled … Read more
My comment on the article Putin offers cash but cold comfort to President Lukashenko of Belarus by Marc Bennetts in The Times, 15 September 2020. Generally speaking, the western observers do not know how deep and how thorough is the control of the Communist dictatorship, and how deep and common is the fear of doing … Read more
My comment on the article My great aunt, the spy Ursula Kuczynski by Rosa Ellis in The Times, 11 September 2020. Here are my reflections. We are served a story of a family of intellectuals who worked for the genocidal Communist regime and who don’t care about responsibility for their actions. It seems they are … Read more
My comment on the article Opposition figurehead Maria Kolesnikova is bundled into van in Belarus by Gareth Browne in The Times, 7 September 2020. Fake event. The story does not fit the Communist modus operandi. There is no need to grab someone from the street like that. The Communist way is to socially murder the … Read more
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