My comment on the article Piecing Together the History of Stasi Spying by Annalisa Quinn and Mustafah Abdulaziz in The New York Times 11 August 2021. It is highly significant that the comment coming from a person targeted by Communists for elimination has been rejected by the NY Times. Lech Borkowski, London, UK Methods used … Read more
Comment on Peter Conradi’s article Party writhes in hunt for next Merkel in The Times, 26 December 2020. Simple facts contradict Angela Merkel’s supposed line of thought pursued by the author of the article. She was a member of the Communist youth organisation, a training ground for future Communist leaders. She joined to support, build … 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
A short comment on controversy described in David Crossland’s article Critics pan Berlin film festival for giving ‘reactionary’ Jeremy Irons a starring role in The Times, January 22 2020. Lech Borkowski 22 January This outrage occurs in Germany, whose current long-time leader was a voluntary member of a totalitarian, Communist organisation: Freie Deutsche Jugend, the … Read more
One more comment on the article Sprint to freedom: how the East German athlete Ines Geipel outran even the Stasi by Oliver Moody in The Sunday Times, 5 November 2019. I am deeply skeptical of a daughter of a Communist intelligence officer playing the part of being in opposition to the dictatorship. I have read … Read more
On 25 December 2019, The Times re-published the article Sprint to freedom: how the East German athlete Ines Geipel outran even the Stasi by Oliver Moody, originally issued on November 5, 2019. The sprinter is a daughter of an East German intelligence officer. The circumstances and events presented in the article contradict the modus operandi … Read more
My second comment on Niall Ferguson’s article Aftermath: the fall of the Berlin Wall — and its lesson for China 30 years on in The Sunday Times. Pope John Paul II, whom the author mentions, did not oppose Communists. He collaborated with them. He celebrated the 26 anniversary of his pontificate in October 2004 with … Read more
My comment on Niall Ferguson’s article Aftermath: the fall of the Berlin Wall — and its lesson for China 30 years on in The Sunday Times, 3 November 2019. “With a few proletarian exceptions — Lech Wałesa is the most obvious” Wałęsa is a Communist stooge. The whole Solidarity movement was engineered by the Communists … Read more
My comment on the article Thirty years ago, I watched the Berlin Wall come down by Anne McElvoy in The Times. The text is chaotic. It is raising questions and doubts rather than bringing answers. More noise than signal. Egon Krenz’s son among friends? That’s interesting. “Many of my friends hailed from families who were … Read more
Comment on The Times article ‘East was best — and then the Soviets sold us out,’ says East Germany’s last leader by Peter Conradi. The subject of the ‘fall of Communism’ is misunderstood and mis-narrated, to put it mildly. You should look at it critically and ask lots of questions. Notice the absence of stories … Read more