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
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
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
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
My comment on the article Agent Gustav: Geoffrey Goodman, the Fleet Street titan who spied on Harold Wilson by Gabriel Pogrund, Martin Dixon and Tom Calver in The Sunday Times, 13 June 2020. The text includes the comment I made following the June 8, 2019 article by Jake Kerridge in The Telegraph, ‘Why should my … Read more
My comments on the article We need to talk about empire: a conversation about Britain’s history is overdue by Matthew Syed in The Sunday Times, 14 June 2020. Imperialism has many aspects and is not limited to race relations. The imperial view still permeates the world politics. The current world order is an outcome of … Read more
My comment on A Czech Dreambook by Ludvík Vaculík review: sex and surveillance in the underground resistance by Julian Evans in The Telegraph, 30 May 2020. Vaculik, himself a Communist party membert, is merely a functionary of the Communist mythology. Vaculik’s “Two Thousand Words” bears all the marks of a fake opposition pamphlet. Communists fabricated … Read more
My second comment on Niall Ferguson’s farewell article in his Sunday Times column, My crystal ball missed Brexit but got Donald Trump, 24 May 2020. The first comment, Dizzy with success, was blocked by the paper. My yesterday’s comment was blocked. Were my few critical words unbearable for this unabashedly self-promoting article in the old, … Read more
My comment following Niall Ferguson’s article in The Sunday Times, 24 May 2020, was blocked. Paraphrasing slightly Joseph V. Stalin’s article in Pravda, 2 March 1930, I would like to say that Niall Ferguson’s successes in the sphere of predicting the future are now being spoken of by everyone. Even his enemies are forced to … Read more
My comment on The Times’ article Kremlin drops plans for state-approved Wikipedia by Marc Bennetts, May 15, 2020. The text was blocked and did not appear among readers’ comments. Lech Borkowski Russia’s decision to abandon the official state-run equivalent of wikipedia does not make much difference. Wikipedia in Eastern Europe is controlled by the same … Read more
My comment on Dana Zatopkova obituary, The Times, March 28 2020. Earlier comments indicate lack of understanding of what Communism is and the extremely important role played by sportsmen and sportswomen as functionaries of Communist regimes. Communism, like Nazism, is a program of ruthless elimination of people classified as the Other. Who belongs to that … Read more
Book review. Comments on The Human Factor: Gorbachev, Reagan and Thatcher and the End of the Cold War by Archie Brown review by Dominic Sandbrook, March 22 2020. Ah, the Clueless and the Mythmakers, in other words Russian and East European Centre, St Antony’s College, University of Oxford. John Paul II was Communist collaborator. John … Read more
One more comment on Marc Bennetts’ article Stalin’s death liberated us, say activists in The Times, March 6 2020. Two other ones were posted earlier. The Times remained silent on the 75th anniversary of the Yalta agreement of February 1945. At the end of WWII leaders of United States and Britain went out of their way … Read more
My comment following the review of tv documentary Belsen: Our Story, review: a devastating and dignified oral history of Holocaust horrors, by Michael Hogan, The Telegraph, January 28, 2020 —— Lech Borkowski 28 Jan 2020 11:33PM Great documentary. I made the following note in 2014: “The last century, beginning with World War I, has seen … 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
Comment on The Telegraph article 30 years after the Romanian Revolution, has Bucharest shaken off the ghost of its communist dictator? by Chris Leadbeater, 16 December 2019. —— Lech Borkowski 17 Dec 2019 12:00AM You write ‘Poland’s emergence from political suffocation was a triumph of collective will and “Solidarity”’. “Solidarity” was a Communist provocation and a … Read more
My comment to the obituary of Laszlo Rajk junior in The Telegraph, Laszlo Rajk, Hungarian architect, set designer and dissident whose father had been a prominent victim of the Stalin-era show trials – obituary, 26 November 2019. —— Lech Borkowski 5 Dec 2019 9:27AM Ridiculous. Rajk senior was a criminal. Period. Rajk junior led a … Read more