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 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
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
My two comments on book review Twilight of Democracy by Anne Applebaum review — how the right went rogue and wrong by Gerard De Groot in The Times, 17 July 2020. Anne Applebaum works as a functionary of a fake narrative. She should rather write about herself and her husband. Radek Sikorski has been trained … Read more
Another Sergei Khrushchev obituary. The Times, July 1, 2020. I posted nearly identical comment as under his obituary in The Telegraph. I added the first sentence Sergei Khrushchev clearly continued to serve Soviet Russia during his years in the US. I also posted another comment in response to a reader’s remark. Someone in a comment … Read more
My comment on the article Polish populists are rocked by liberal surge at ballot box by Maria Wilczek in The Times, 29 June 2020. The narrative of the public life in Poland in general is presented in the Communist mode. This is essentially the narrative of self-appointed prison authorities explaining their role as guardians of … Read more
My comment on the article Poland on brink of a new, pro-EU politics by Maria Wilczek in The Times, 28 June 2020. This is merely a spectacle about elections and democracy pretending to be the real thing. It is not. It is useful to refresh the memory somewhat. The first so-called ‘non-Communist’ Polish PM in … Read more
My second comment on the article Polish president looks for US troops to give him edge in election by Oliver Moody and Maria Wilczek in The Times, 26 June 2020. In Poland, there is a democratic spectacle, but there is no democracy. There was no democracy since WWII. The title of the article claims that … Read more
My comment on the article Polish right is dismantling democracy, Lech Walesa warns by Oliver Moody and Maria Wilczek in The Times, 26 June 2020. This is an empty spectacle presented as the ‘real thing’. There is no political difference and no difference of interest between the people mentioned in the article, just like there … Read more
My comment on Sergei Khrushchev, son of Soviet leader Nikita who ended up swearing allegiance to America – obituary in The Telegraph, 22 June 2020. Both Sergei Khrushchev and his father Nikita Khrushchev lived at the center of the Soviet dictatorship, built it and served it to the best of their ability. Millions of people … Read more