My second comment following the article Benefits boom pushes Polish populists to victory by Oliver Moody in The Times, 14 October 2019. Cardinal Wojtyla wouldn’t have advanced to the top of the church hierarchy without Communist support. The church in Poland quickly lost its independence after WWII. The Communist control was total. In October 2004, the … 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 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
I posted the following comment following the article Forgive us for starting the Second World War, Germany begs Poland in The Times: The war was started by a joint German-Soviet invasion of Poland. Each of the invaders occupied roughly half of the country. Joint Communist-Nazi victory parade was held in Brześć on the Bug river (Brest-Litovsk) … 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
Physics Today published the article “The tragic story of Hans Hellmann” on 28 September 2018. Hans Hellmann, born in 1903, was a German quantum chemist, who lost his university job in Nazi Germany in 1934. He then moved with his wife and son to the Soviet Union where he was employed in the Karpov Institute of Physical … Read more