Revolutionary dynamics

My comment on As Polish abortion laws tighten women fear an impossible choice by Kasia Strek and Peter Conradi in The Sunday Times, 8 November 2020, online on 7 November 2020. Polish version: Dynamika rewolucyjna. This affair is being played as a typical Communist polit-soap opera. Hyper-activism of thousands of ‘protesters’ in a country without … Read more

Higher degree of skepticism

My short comment on the article Cleaner beats Putin’s man in local Russian poll by Marc Bennetts in The Times, 1 October 2020. My earlier short comment was removed. I wrote the following: “The story looks to me produced rather than authentic. Produced in the sense that the Russian ‘democracy’ is managed and simulated. Polit-soap … Read more

Not impressed

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

Decades of false reporting

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

Beyond cognitive horizon

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

Polishing images of totalitarian agents in The Telegraph

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

Political functionary as chief of the Auschwitz museum

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

Communist narrative in The Sunday Times Travel section

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

Communist narrative in The Sunday Times Travel section

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

Static vs dynamic dictatorship

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

Vatican in the Shadow of the Red Star

Cover of "Memoirs" by József Cardinal Mindszenty

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

“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

Onwards to simulated democracy

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

On the Communist modus operandi

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

Pret a imprimer

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

Polit-soap opera

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

Total control, many options

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

Self-limiting journalism

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

Attention span

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

Communist night torture

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

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