Comment on the article The Lebedevs are freedom fighters, not Kremlin cronies by Dmitry Muratov in The Times, 17 March 2022. The word ‘former’ is a very important and flexible word in the Communist/Russian dictionary. It is applied on opposite sides of the axis of memory and importance. When used in reference to … 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
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
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 Hungarian coffee shop idolises UK philosopher Sir Roger Scruton by Oliver Moody in The Times, 15 June 2021. Viktor Orban is a most loyal pupil of the Communist regime. He was the leader of the Communist Pioneers organisation in high school. Only the most trusted ones coming from a ‘proper’ background … Read more
Comment on the article Anger after Ryanair flight ‘hijacked’ by Lukashenko to arrest dissident by Marc Bennetts, The Times, May 24 2021. The Nexta channel is run on Telegram, service operated by a Russian team from Dubai, as the company’s website explains: “The Telegram development team is based in Dubai. Most of the developers behind … 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
Komentarz do artykułu Lenin’s architect of red terror rises again, Architekt terroru Lenina znów na piedestale, Ben Macintyre, The Times, 16 września 2017. Użyłem ostatnio Google Maps w celu zlokalizowania pomników Feliksa Dzierżyńskiego w Rosji. Jest ich wiele, w różnych częściach kraju. Oto przykład. Cytowane wpisy z Tweetera należą do wątku, w którym publikuję współrzędne … Read more
Comment on the article Lenin’s architect of red terror rises again by Ben Macintyre in The Times, 16 September 2017. I used Google Maps recently to try and locate monuments to Felix Dzerzhinsky in Russia. There is lots of them all over the country. Here is a sample. The tweets quoted below are part of … Read more
Komentarz do artykułu Alexei Navalny has prisoner of conscience status revoked by human rights group Amnesty International, Amnesty International cofnęła Nawalnemu status więźnia sumienia, Marc Bennetts w The Times, 24 lutego 2021. Zamieściłem tekst pod artykułem na stronie internetowej gazety, gdzie został natychmiast zablokowany, a później usunięty. Wersja angielska: Comedy International. Komedia trwa. Amnesty International … Read more
Komentarz do artykułu redakcyjnego The Times view on Russia sanctions: Punishing Putin, 23 lutego 2021. Wersja angielska: EU Parliament ignores victims of Communist methods. Polskie władze użyły służby medycyny pracy przeciwko mojej żonie w 2015 roku. Wydane zostało fałszywe oświadczenie lekarskie, aby wyrzucić ją z pracy pianistki i nauczycielki fortepianu w Państwowej Szkole Muzycznej w … Read more
Comment on an opinion piece 76 years on, Belsen’s lessons are more important than ever by Karen Pollock in The Times, April 15 2021. ‘During the Second World War, a generation of young people across Europe were conscripted to fight for their country. For six long years, these mainly young men were separated from their … Read more
Comment on the article Navalny details regime of punishment and torture in prison by Maria Georgieva in The Times, 29 March 2021. This is a ridiculous comedy. Russian state apparatus can do what they want. If the messages travel outside, then this is exactly what the Russian authorities want. Navalny is not a victim of … Read more
Comment to the article Stalin’s War by Sean McMeekin, review — a different way to look at WWII by Dominic Sandbrook in The Sunday Times, 21 March 2021. ‘[WWII] didn’t begin in September 1939, when Hitler invaded Poland, but eight years earlier with the Japanese invasion of Manchuria. It didn’t end in the summer of … Read more
Komentarz do artykułu Marvin Rees: ‘When my pal Alexei Navalny is free, I’ll give him a grand tour of Bristol’, Marvin Rees: ‘po uwolnieniu Aleksieja Nawalnego oprowadzę go po całym Bristolu’, Matthew Campbell, The Sunday Times, 14 lutego 2021. Wersja angielska: Rees, Navalny, Colston, Dzerzhinsky. W artykule w The Evening Standard z 8 czerwca 2020 … 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
Komentarz do artykułu Kremlin plans new law to block Alexei Navalny’s wife from running in Russia’s election in September, Kreml chce nowego prawa, by uniemożliwić kandydowanie w wyborach żonie Nawalnego, Marc Bennetts w The Times, 10 lutego 2021. Wersja angielska: Media footprint. Śmiesznostki. Reżim rosyjski nie potrzebuje żadnych przepisów, aby działać i realizować swoje cele. … Read more
Komentarz do artykułu redakcyjnego Navalny’s brave battle should be ours too, Odważna walka Navalnego powinna być również naszym udziałem, w The Sunday Times, 24 stycznia 2021. Wersja angielska: The uber-hyped narrative. Artykuły The Times poświęcone protestom nie są szczególnie pouczające. Naprawdę nie w nich ma informacji poza luźną posypką z garści haseł. Można by pomyśleć, … Read more
Komentarz do artykułu Britain in united front is only way to resist Russia post-Brexit, Po wyjściu z UE Wielka Brytania może stawić czoła Rosji tylko pod warunkiem zjednoczenia w jeden front, Baroness Warsi, The Times, 21 January 2021. Wersja angielska: Are you serious about human rights? Właściwym słowem kluczowym jest prowokacja. Należy podkreślić, że Bill … Read more