Comment on The Times’ article Putin and Stalin exalted beside angels in Russia’s ‘pagan temple’ by Marc Bennetts in Moscow The appearance of Stalin on the wall of an Orthodox church seems surprising at first. However, if we reflect a little, we will see that it is far from being an isolated incident. The Communist … Read more
Short comment on The inside story of how Putin and his KGB cronies took control of Russia, an article by Catherine Belton in the Sunday Times, March 29, 2020, which is based on her book Putin’s People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took on the West. Let me quote first: In the … Read more
Comment on Marc Bennetts’ article ‘Putin’s chef’ to sue woman who accused him of attempted murder in The Times, April 12, 2020. This does not sound true. The story is a product intended for western consumption, not an authentic representation of reality. You need to understand that neither the earlier Communist Russia, nor today’s Communist … Read more
Comment on The Countess and the Russian Billionaire review — the 1 per centers who went peak Jeremy Kyle in The Times by Carol Midgley, April 9, 2020 If information available on the Internet is true, Sergei Pugachev comes from a Soviet military family. A career like his would be absolutely impossible without the full … Read more
Article Putin grabs rule for life in ‘biggest con of the century’ in The Times by Marc Bennetts, March 15 2020. Here is my comment. All quiet on the Eastern Front? This article, like many others of this type, simply tells the story as the Russian power machine wants it to be told. All the … Read more
My two comments published today, following Marc Bennetts’ article Stalin’s death liberated us, say activists in The Times, March 6 2020. Note the profound difference between the treatment of Nazi and Communist genocides on the pages of The Times. This includes readers’ comments. I am Polish. My parents were held in Communist concentration camps in … 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
My second comment on The Times view on Vladimir Putin’s comments about the Holocaust: History Lesson, January 24 2020. Lech Borkowski I remember a Bolshevik quote about history. It goes more or less like this: “We will ride the history’s horse to its death”. This is a rough translation of a quote which I remember … 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
My comment on Marc Bennett’s article Elite Russian spy unit ‘given job of sowing chaos in Europe’ in The Times, 10 October 2019. The western thinking goes along the lines of specialized units and members of intelligence, while ignoring other enduring aspects of the legacy of the Communist dictatorship. Vyacheslav Molotov proclaimed in the 1930s: … 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
Another comment I wrote under the same article in the Telegraph as mentioned in my previous blog post. “Lech Borkowski 20 Aug 2019 1:21PM After many years of bullying and all kinds of harassment of our family, my wife and I were expelled from our state jobs for political reasons in 2015. I worked as … Read more