Comment on the article in a British daily the Telegraph by the Polish Ambassador in the UK. Polish authorities pretend to oppose Russia and to be friends with western democracies in general and the UK in particular. However, this is not true. Poland is ruled by the same Communist class as before 1990. My wife … Read more
Comment on the editorial Brussels will bully Poland back into line before long in The Telegraph 27 October 2021. 27 Oct 2021 3:24 PM Media interpretations of this pseudo-standoff between Poland and the EU suffer from unfamiliarity with the Communist modus operandi. The last time Poland had a rule of law was before WWII. The … Read more
Comment on the obituary of Flight Lieutenant Dennis Bryden pilot shot down in 1944 […] in the Telegraph 11 November 2021. “Bryden […] and his crew took off from Brindisi on the night of September 10 1944 to drop supplies to the Polish underground movement in Warsaw.” ‘Movement’?! This sentence is a serious distortion. On … Read more
My comment on the article The guards at the Poland-Belarus border kicked us like footballs by Maria Wilczek and Paulina Olszanka in The Times 13 November 2021. These stories are impossible to verify. During the 1980s children of Polish Communist party members were traveling abroad on tourist visas and asking for political asylum in Greece, … Read more
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 the article A cultural Iron Curtain separating east and west threatens to tear the EU apart by Jonathan Saxty in The Telegraph, 21 July 2021. 22 Jul 2021 1:18PM The confusion about East European members of the EU stems from incorrect examination and interpretation of post-WWII history and politics in EE countries. The … Read more
Two comments on the article What sluggish Britain can learn from Poland by Emma Duncan in The Times, 30 July 2021. Comment #1 The author is trying to push fairy tales, having no knowledge and experience of the educational system in Poland. “The children of middle-class people in our town go to technical schools,” says … Read more
Comments on article Poland stokes fears of EU exit as court defies bloc over reforms by James Rothwell in The Telegraph 14 July 2021. Lech Borkowski 15 Jul 2021 1:42AM These articles are written by people who don’t bother to ask critical questions and suffer from short attention span. Eastern Europe’s politics is a pyramid … Read more
Comment on the article Poland could be next to leave if the EU stands up to Warsaw by John Kampfner in The Times, 23 July 2021. In Poland and Hungary Communists seized power at the end of WWII and never gave it up. They wiped out any pockets of resistance to the dictatorship within the … Read more
Comment on the article Vladimir Putin bans comparisons between Soviets and Nazi Germany in Second World War by Tom Parfitt in The Times, 1 July 2021. ‘The latter is likely to anger former Soviet states like Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, which say they were occupied by the Red Army and then coerced into joining the … Read more
Comment on the article You think the BBC is biased? Check out Wokepedia by Andrew Orlowski in The Telegraph, 27 May 2021. 28 May 2021 1:29AM On January 10 2021, The Telegraph published an enthusiastic review of a book about Wikipedia https://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/what-to-read/wikipedia-has-transformed-knowledge-still-looked/ I wrote a critical comment under that article. The text was removed. I … Read more
Comment on the article Poland sets out to reclaim Marie Curie’s legacy, Maria Wilczek in The Times, 12 May 2021. Polish political functionary talking about ‘false narrative’? He is merely repeating the comment I wrote under another Times article, Prisoner of false narrative, 21 June 2020 However, he is trying to alter the meaning and … Read more
Polish version: Film BBC Pożyczone Pastwisko z 1960 The men in the BBC documentary Borrowed Pasture, Eugeniusz Okołowicz, photographer, and Włodzimierz Bułaj, electrician, were in the Polish Army during September 1939 campaign of WWII, then crossed into Lithuania where they were interned, to avoid capture by either Germans or Russians. Soviets occupied Lithuania in Spring … Read more
Comment on the article EU launches legal challenge against UK over ‘unlawful’ Gibraltar state aid by Catherine Neilan in The Telegraph, 19 March 2021. Lech Borkowski 19 Mar 2021 7:07PM EU is such a horrible wasteful bureaucracy. In 2017, several of us were driven from London to Truro in Cornwall to distribute some job training/job scheme … Read more
Komentarz do artykuu Polish media stage blackout over advertising tax they say will harm press freedom, Polskie media publikują czarne strony po nałożeniu podatków na reklamy, Maria Wilczek, The Times, 10 lutego 2021. Wersja angielska: Fake political conflict. To jest fałszywy, inscenizowany konflikt. Zarówno media, jak i rząd należą do tej samej klasy rządzącej, która … Read more
Comment on the article ‘Plunder,’ a Gripping Reflection on What the Nazis Took and What It Would Mean to Take It Back, review of Menachem Kaiser’s book. Dwight Garner in The New York Times, March 8, 2021. I hope Kaiser recovers his family property. I am very familiar with ‘Kafkaesque hurdles’ in Poland. You need … Read more
Comment on the editorial The Times view on Russia sanctions: Punishing Putin, 23 February 2021. Polish version: Parlament Europejski ignoruje ofiary metod komunistycznych. Polish authorities used the service of occupational medicine service against my wife in 2015. They manufactured fake medical statement to expel her from the job of pianist and piano teacher at the … Read more
Comment on the article Polish media stage blackout over advertising tax they say will harm press freedom by Maria Wilczek in The Times, 10 February 2021. Polish version: Fałszywy konflikt polityczny. This is a fake, staged conflict. Both the media and the government are the same ruling class and both recruit from the same Communist … Read more
Comment on the article Austrian minister quits over PhD plagiarism allegations by Oliver Moody in The Times, 12 January 2021. Few years ago I tried to find the doctoral thesis of a well-known Polish Communist ideologue(1) and a prominent high-ranking Party official, presented in media as having a PhD. [In 2015] I asked in the … Read more
Comment on the article Wikipedia has transformed knowledge – so why is it still looked down on? by Simon Ings in The Telegraph, 10 January 2021. English version: Polska Wikipedia i wywiad komunistyczny. Lech Borkowski 10 Jan 2021 7:01PM The article’s author represents an enthusiastic approach to Wikipedia. Quote from the article: Dariusz Jemielniak (author … Read more