Comment on the article We must support the citizens of Belarus during this brutal state crackdown by Renatas Norkus, Arkady Rzegocki, and Dr Jonathan Eyal in The Sunday Telegraph 7 February 2021. Polish version: Produkcja fałszywych narracji. [1] Lithuanian Ambassador to the UK [2] Polish Ambassador to the UK [3] Associate Director at the Royal … Read more
Komentarz do artykułu A new ‘Iron Curtain’ is descending on the EU, and threatens to collapse the project, Jonathan Saxty, The Telegraph, 24 listopada 2020. Wersja angielska: Western observers lost the plot in Eastern Europe. 25 Nov 2020 4:11PM Zachodni obserwatorzy całkowicie stracili orientację w Europie Wschodniej. Na przykład w Polsce klasa rządząca pozostała dokładnie … Read more
Comment on the article A new ‘Iron Curtain’ is descending on the EU, and threatens to collapse the project by Jonathan Saxty in The Telegraph 24 November 2020. 25 Nov 2020 4:11PM Western observers completely lost the plot in Eastern Europe. In Poland, for example, the ruling class remained exactly the same as before 1990. … Read more
Comment on the article Alexei Navalny jailed for three years as police crack down on fresh protests in Moscow by Natalia Vasilyeva in The Telegraph, 3 February 2021. Polish version: Aleja Dzierżyńskiego. Navalny is one of many Russia’s state-run projects. He is clearly a member of the Russian privileged class. This spectacle is a creation … Read more
Comment on the editorial article A reckoning is coming for Vladimir Putin in The Telegraph, 1 February 2021. It isn’t about the man in the Kremlin either. Russians and other East Europeans successfully trained West Europeans to follow the fake narrative. It is as if Communism has never existed and from extremes of collectivism Russia, … Read more
Comment on the article Covid is a 1914 moment for the post-Cold War globalised order by Allistair Heath in The Telegraph, 27 January 2021. Polish version: Siła komunistów skrajnie niedoceniona. Lech Borkowski 28 Jan 2021 1:39AM “a wonderful, freewheeling, ultra-mobile 30-year affair that started with the downfall of communism in 1989 has come to a … Read more
Comment on the article Now is the moment for Berlin to show Russia some backbone by Mark Galeotti in The Telegraph, 18 January 2021. Polish version: Fałszywi dysydenci, czyli rosyjski projekt państwowy. Lech Borkowski 20 Jan 2021 8:30AM Navalny is Russia’s state-run project. Anti-corruption campaigns belong to the category of non-essential criticism. They do not … 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
Brief comment on Con Coughlin’s opinion piece Dictators are outwitting the fatally divided West in The Telegraph, 23 December 2020. Lech Borkowski 23 Dec 2020 8:30AM It is much worse than you think. Members of totalitarian organisations, such as Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz, a Communist Party member, former Polish PM, now member of the European Parliament, are firmly … Read more
Komentarz do artykułu The untold story of Edith Tudor-Hart: ‘grandmother’ of the Cambridge spies, Charlotte Philby, The Telegraph, 3 października 2020. Wersja angielska: Polishing images of totalitarian agents in The Telegraph. Myśląc o odwadze kobiet, wolę przykład mojej mamy, która była więziona przez komunistycznych oprawców w Polsce wschodniej okupowanej przez Związek Radziecki po drugiej wojnie … Read more
My comment on Hitler and Stalin by Laurence Rees review: a tale of two tyrants by Robert Gerwarth in The Telegraph, 26 October 2020. Polish version: Neuronalne korelaty świadomości. WWII and associated developments are typically viewed from mostly a military perspective. Started on [date], ended on [date]. [number] mln killed. My family comes from eastern … Read more
The untold story of Edith Tudor-Hart: ‘grandmother’ of the Cambridge spies by Charlotte Philby in The Telegraph, 3 October 2020. Wersja polska: Ocieplanie wizerunku agentów totalitaryzmu. When thinking about woman’s bravery, I prefer my mother, who was imprisoned by the Communist henchmen in eastern Poland occupied by the Soviet Russia after WWII. She was ‘tried’ … Read more
“All the Pravda That’s Fit to Print”. My comments on the article Meet Maroš Šefčovič, the steely former communist who imposed the EU’s Brexit deadline by James Crisp in The Telegraph, 11 September 2020. Lech Borkowski 13 Sep 2020 4:14PM This article reads like The London Pravda. Let’s see… towering, basketball-loving, polyglot, wise choice, embroiled … Read more
My comment on the article Putin has no good options in Belarus by Andrew Foxall in The Telegraph, 25 August 2020. Lech Borkowski 27 Aug 2020 2:49PM I see my earlier comment was removed. Interesting. The Belarus protests are completely phoney. The social control in Communist countries is total and there is no social activity … Read more
My comment on Tony Brenton’s article Another martyr for democracy is the last thing Vladimir Putin needs in The Telegraph, 20 August 2020. Lech Borkowski 21 Aug 2020 2:35PM Western analyses of events and situation in Russia and elsewhere in the Eastern Bloc are formed on incorrect assumptions. While they are formally correct within the … Read more
My comment on the editorial article Is this the end for Europe’s last dictator? in The Telegraph, 11 August 2020. Lech Borkowski 11 Aug 2020 4:38PM We have been here before. Poland, for example, has seen hundreds of protests and hundreds of strikes. As a first-year student, I participated in a two-week student sit-in in … Read more
The third of my comments following Twilight of Democracy by Anne Applebaum, review: a querulous and flawed analysis of Europe by Philip Johnston in The Telegraph, 26 July 2020. Lech Borkowski 31 Jul 2020 2:07AM In September 2011, at the time when Anne Applebaum’s husband was Foreign Minister in the Donald Tusk government, Polish authorities … Read more
My two comments on Twilight of Democracy by Anne Applebaum, review: a querulous and flawed analysis of Europe by Philip Johnston in The Telegraph, 26 July 2020. Lech Borkowski 26 Jul 2020 7:04PM Putting it mildly, you have been misinformed by both Anne Applebaum and her husband Radek Sikorski on Poland and the rest of … Read more
My comment on Sergei Khrushchev, son of Soviet leader Nikita who ended up swearing allegiance to America – obituary in The Telegraph, 22 June 2020. Both Sergei Khrushchev and his father Nikita Khrushchev lived at the center of the Soviet dictatorship, built it and served it to the best of their ability. Millions of people … Read more
My comment on A Czech Dreambook by Ludvík Vaculík review: sex and surveillance in the underground resistance by Julian Evans in The Telegraph, 30 May 2020. Vaculik, himself a Communist party membert, is merely a functionary of the Communist mythology. Vaculik’s “Two Thousand Words” bears all the marks of a fake opposition pamphlet. Communists fabricated … Read more