On February 23, 2020, The Sunday Times published an article by Andrew Holgate Holocaust novelists blur Nazi fact and fiction in bestsellers. Here is my comment. Quote from the article: In one of the novel’s most important scenes, the number he tattoos on the arm of his future wife is seen by several critics as … Read more
Hugh Tomlinson writes in The Times, February 21 2020, about cheating in Indian schools in the article Testing times for India’s school exam cheats. My comment is about falsifications at a university in Poland. In Poland, where I was employed at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, everything, not just exam results is subject to … Read more
The Times published the article Mark Zuckerberg wanted Facebook users to make ‘dark profiles’ on others by Jacqui Goddard, February 15, 2020. Around 2006 the Facebook’s owner mulled the idea of letting third persons create profiles of those who have not opened a Facebook account yet. Here are my comments. Creating ‘dark profiles’ on others? … Read more
The article The film that shows we’re all parasites now by David Aaronovitch in The Times, February 12 2020. My comment 13 February I came to the UK in June 2016, couple of days before the Brexit referendum, looking for a job that would pay our family bills and mortgage on a flat in Poland. … Read more
Two comments after The Times’ article Vladimir Putin to bolster his rule with fake political parties by Marc Bennetts, January 27 2020. Lech Borkowski 27 January Oh dear, oh dear, this is not news, this is old history, starting with the Operation Trust in the 1920s, when the Soviets ran fake underground movement. Fake miniature … Read more
Second comment on the article The Volunteer: Jack Fairweather’s Auschwitz spy thriller wins Costa prize, by David Sanderson, The Times, January 29 2020. I should add that the first book presenting Witold Pilecki’s role was Fighting Auschwitz: the Resistance in the Concentration Camp by Józef Garlinski (1913-2005), Polish officer who was also imprisoned in Auschwitz. … Read more
Comment on the article The Volunteer: Jack Fairweather’s Auschwitz spy thriller wins Costa prize, by David Sanderson, The Times, January 29 2020. Polish version: Polski test lakmusowy ma wynik czerwony. 29 January 2020 Five years ago, Pilecki’s son and daughter have not been invited by the Polish authorities to the 70 anniversary of the liquidation … 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
My first comment following The Times view on Vladimir Putin’s comments about the Holocaust: History Lesson, The Times January 24 2020. Lech Borkowski The event in question is a prime example of the weaponisation of history. In the hands of Communist regimes of Eastern Europe under Soviet control, everything was used as a weapon. Literally … Read more
The Times article Poland to boycott Jerusalem Holocaust ceremony amid row over Russia rewriting history by Catherine Philip, January 23 2020. My comment. Lech Borkowski There are two issues deliberately mixed here with the intention to confuse. 1 Holocaust memorial day. Day of reflection and remembrance. 2 Polish-Russian relations. Issue 2, in the main, has little … Read more
And another comment following The Times article We can never be sure we’d be the good guys by David Aaronovitch, January 1, 2020. Lech Borkowski 2 January 2020 It is useful to remember the disastrous 1945 Yalta deal made between the democratic and freedom-loving leaders of Great Britain and United States with the genocidal Communist regime … Read more
Another of my comments following The Times article We can never be sure we’d be the good guys by David Aaronovitch. Lech Borkowski 3 January 2020 Poland is not free or democratic – see my earlier comment. My wife and I lost our jobs in state institutions in Poland in 2015 after a long campaign … Read more
Another comment in a discussion around the article We can never be sure we’d be the good guys by David Aaronovitch in The Times, January 2, 2020. 2 January 2020 One of the readers wrote in conclusion of his comment related to the condition of Poland during the war and afterwards: “Only after Stalin’s death … Read more
My comment on the article in the The Times We can never be sure we’d be the good guys by David Aaronovitch, January 1 2020. Lech Borkowski 2 January 2020 Many of the comments following the article indicate an under-appreciation of the evolution of evil. Evil is alive and in rude health. Here is my … Read more
Comment on The Times article Poles protest as MPs debate law would allow it to sack judges who query judicial overhaul by Maria Wilczek, 20 December 2019. Lech Borkowski, at about 00:10, 21 Dec 2019 The reform, described by the head of the Polish Supreme Court as tantamount to the “liquidation of independent judicial power” … Read more
Wikipedia operates differently in different languages. There is a cultural, political, and historical context involved. Poland is a country of an evolved Communist dictatorship. Wikipedia’s Polish content is a reflection of that. Wikipedia article about me was created not because I am a public and notable figure. It was created because I was being fired … 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
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
Simon Heffer wrote a review of Marcel Ophüls’ Le Chagrin et la Pitié (The Sorrow and the Pity), a documentary about occupied France in WWII. The four and a half hours long film was shown on tv in 1969. The article This Second World War film is the greatest documentary ever made, appeared in The … Read more