My comment on Roger Boyes’ article Don’t be surprised at Poles returning home in The Times, 15 October 2019. Being The Times’ correspondent in Warsaw in the 1980s, Roger Boyes failed to ask critical questions and notice some of the most obvious things. And now he continues to build on those mistakes. Let me remind … Read more
My third comment following the article Benefits boom pushes Polish populists to victory by Oliver Moody in The Times, 14 October 2019. This is a response to those uncritically accepting the well-known widely publicized narrative. To present a narrative, especially one contrary to the widely publicized one, it does take a little longer to experience, analyze … Read more
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
My comment following the article Benefits boom pushes Polish populists to victory by Oliver Moody in The Times, 14 October 2019. “Lech Walesa, 76, a national hero in the struggle against communist rule” Lech Walesa was the leader of a fake opposition to Communism. The Communists created the Solidarity movement themselves and appointed him as … 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 on the article Conservative conference: Human rights offenders may be barred from UK in The Times, 30 September 2019. You should also add Gluchowska Act, declaring as persona non grata all top Polish officials, including Donald Tusk, current President of the European Council, who approved of severe human rights violations against our family: … Read more
Ben MacIntyre’s article Did MI6 let Cold War spy Kim Philby escape to Moscow? in The Times, 28 September 2019. Here is my comment posted on the newspaper’s website. [Kim Philby:] I joined the OGPU as one joined the army. This sort of argument is consistent with what apparently was routine Communist intelligence training in … Read more
My three comments following the article Portland spies undone by a giant lighter by Ben McIntyre in The Times, 24 September 2019, in order of appearance. The West is completely blind to subversive activities in the political and social sphere which I would call “the narrative management and control”. There is no need to steal … Read more
On 28 August 2019, The Times reported about doubts surrounding the famous Milgram psychological experiment on obeying authority and administering pain to other human beings carried out in 1961, Shocking truth about famed Milgram torture experiment. One of those involved in re-analysis of the experiment is Gina Perry (University of Melbourne), quoted in the article. … 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
My comment following the article “The two Britains that exasperate and enchant the rest of the world” by Neil MacGregor in The Times. After reading this article, I listened to MacGregor’s episode on Poland in his series “As Others See Us”. Towards the end of the episode he says “because our contributors come from opposite … 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