Comment on the article The Volunteer: Jack Fairweather’s Auschwitz spy thriller wins Costa prize, by David Sanderson, The Times, January 29 2020. Polish version: Polski test lakmusowy ma wynik czerwony. 29 January 2020 Five years ago, Pilecki’s son and daughter have not been invited by the Polish authorities to the 70 anniversary of the liquidation … Read more
My comment following the review of tv documentary Belsen: Our Story, review: a devastating and dignified oral history of Holocaust horrors, by Michael Hogan, The Telegraph, January 28, 2020 —— Lech Borkowski 28 Jan 2020 11:33PM Great documentary. I made the following note in 2014: “The last century, beginning with World War I, has seen … 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
And another comment following The Times article We can never be sure we’d be the good guys by David Aaronovitch, January 1, 2020. Lech Borkowski 2 January 2020 It is useful to remember the disastrous 1945 Yalta deal made between the democratic and freedom-loving leaders of Great Britain and United States with the genocidal Communist regime … Read more
Another of my comments following The Times article We can never be sure we’d be the good guys by David Aaronovitch. Lech Borkowski 3 January 2020 Poland is not free or democratic – see my earlier comment. My wife and I lost our jobs in state institutions in Poland in 2015 after a long campaign … Read more
Another comment in a discussion around the article We can never be sure we’d be the good guys by David Aaronovitch in The Times, January 2, 2020. 2 January 2020 One of the readers wrote in conclusion of his comment related to the condition of Poland during the war and afterwards: “Only after Stalin’s death … Read more
Simon Heffer wrote a review of Marcel Ophüls’ Le Chagrin et la Pitié (The Sorrow and the Pity), a documentary about occupied France in WWII. The four and a half hours long film was shown on tv in 1969. The article This Second World War film is the greatest documentary ever made, appeared in The … 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
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