From my two comments folowing the article Nato should de-escalate conflict with Russia and focus on inequality, says Jeremy Corbyn, by Tony Diver. Lech Borkowski 2 Dec 2019 7:50AM First you have to understand the situation and that implies understanding the post-WWII developments. Western leaders Churchill and Roosevelt signed the Yalta pact with Stalin. It … Read more
Another comment following Niall Ferguson’s article in The Sunday Times. One reader asked me, Ulysses9: Interesting and challenging views in your comment. Do you have a reference or evidence for the Pope refusing to pray for the Polish victims of NKVD massacres? My response: If I remember correctly, the information about the reluctance of John … 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
My comment on Roger Boyes’ article Don’t be surprised at Poles returning home in The Times, 15 October 2019. Being The Times’ correspondent in Warsaw in the 1980s, Roger Boyes failed to ask critical questions and notice some of the most obvious things. And now he continues to build on those mistakes. Let me remind … Read more
On 9 October 2019, The Times published the article Putin’s enemy Mikhail Khodorkovsky on Citizen K, the film that tells his story. Here are my comments posted on the newspaper’s website. Comment 2 is a response to another reader’s post, who argued that 1. careers in politics or economy were reserved for the Communist party … Read more
My comment to The Times article Anti-Putin protesters jailed for six years, 7 October 2019. —— These protests seem to be mostly meaningless. Fake opposition is the most basic thing in Russia and other East European countries. The same story is being repeated over and over again. Like a well known fairy tale children keep … Read more
Comment to Gyorgy Konrad’s obituary in The Telegraph. The comment was submitted in the morning of 18 September 2019 to the digital edition of the paper but was blocked. Adam Michnik is a son of a Soviet agent convicted for his activities against the Polish state in the 1930s. His mother was a Communist as … Read more
The next comment under the same article as the previous one in this blog. Lech Borkowski 20 Aug 2019 11:04PM I should add that if you would like to know more, you can get in touch me via Twitter at @LechSBorkowski. If you want I can do a lecture or a seminar on the subject of … Read more
My comment following Niall Ferguson’s article Science fiction has become dystopian fact in The Sunday Times, 22 September 2019, about 8:30 pm local time. My earlier comment was blocked. I will try again. I would encourage everyone to read “Russian Minds in Fetters”, London: George Allen and Unwin, by the Polish writer and statesman Stanisław … Read more
On 19 August 2019 The Telegraph (London) published an article by Madeline Grant My trip to Poland left me more convinced than ever that we are right to leave the EU to fulfil its superstate ambitions. The author wrote about her experience during the literary festival in Sopot in Poland. I participated in the discussion … Read more