The Soviet University of Poznan

On October 13, 1963 in Opole, the 10th Sudeten Armored Division of the Polish Communist Army received the name of Heroes of the Soviet Union.

This was during the celebrations to mark the twentieth anniversary of the Polish communist army. The division was formed in Fall 1944. The commander of the division receiving this distinction was col. Marian Koper, who was trained in one of the Soviet military academies in the 1950s. Later Koper served as chief of the Higher School of Armored Forces in Poznan (Wyższa Szkoła Wojsk Pancernych w Poznaniu).

Poznań is also the site of the Poznan University (Uniwersytet Poznanski). It is known today as the Adam Mickiewicz University of Poznan (Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu). Interestingly the names of several faculty members of Faculty of Physics of this university carry names which also appear among the staff of the Training Center of Ground Forces (Centrum Szkolenia Wojsk Lądowych w Poznaniu).

The post-1945 the Poznan University was molded in a decidedly Bolshevik fashion. I worked there from 1995 to 2015.

I was dismissed from the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan in October 2015, despite having tenure. The reason for this decision is political one. My father Bolesław Borkowski deserted from the communist army with a large group of other men on January 13, 1945. Among those who deserted was Józef Franczak, who later conducted undegroung military acts against the communist dictatorship. Franczak was killed in Majdan Kozic Górnych, a village near Lublin, on October 23, 1963. He was the last of the anticommunist resistance within current borders of Poland.

My father talked to Franczak before making the decision to desert. Franczak carried the rank of sergeant in that unit of the communist army. He was very approachable and had a genuine empathy for soldiers under his command. This was of course a drastic decision to make. Those who did desert put their lives on the line. Could they pledge allegiance to the Soviets, as the text of the military pledge demanded? They could not. They could not pledge allegiance to the enemies of Poland. Franczak had decisive influence on my father's decision. However, each of them arrived at this decision voluntarily. No one was forced.

Soviet forces were Nazi allies in 1939-1941 and conducted massive crimes against Polish prisoners of war, civilians and against the entire Polish state during the occupation of 1939-1941. When Soviet army entered Polish territory again in 1944 they were carrying out mass arrests and murders of Polish WWII resistance movement. Most Poles were drafted to the communist army in 1944 against their will.

The current Polish political class pretends to be pro-western and loudly demands NATO forces to be stationed on the Polish territory. However this is only a deception. The West has not learned the rules of communist deception yet. If indeed NATO forces will be stationed on Polish territory, the West will probably think they defend Poland. Instead these forces will be pawns in the game of deception with the main roles played by Russia and their Polish servants.

One story is served publicly to the western leaders and the media, while an entirely different story unfolds unbeknown to the them.

Dr hab. Lech S. Borkowski

Letter to the President, October 14, 2012

Małgorzata Głuchowska's letter to B. Komorowski, President of Poland

Bronisław Komorowski
President of Poland
ul. Wiejska 10
00-902 Warsaw

Zielona Góra, October 14, 2012

Dear Mr. President,

A year ago, after twenty years of my impeccable service and irreproachable social conduct I became the target of a series of attacks and provocations conducted with the aim to destroy my professional and social existence. Our family and I suffer loss of health, bear moral and financial losses.

I am a teacher of piano at the State School of Music in Zielona Góra. I try to carry out my duties as best I can. I share my knowledge and professional passion with the young generation. Together with my husband, a university professor, we try to give Poland our best. We are well educated, creative and ambitious. We were brought up as sensitive and responsive persons, easily communicating with students and coworkers. We come from families identifying with traditional values, on which our ancestors built Poland.

The action to liquidate Małgorzata Głuchowska began in September 2011. I was forced through hell on earth. The evidence of this process is in the hands of Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. I informed the Ministry of Culture regularly and provided all documents. Thus the whole process was conducted with full knowledge and, as events showed, with full approval of the government.

The State and its society consist of individuals. The persecution of even a single citizen is action against the State. This is totalitarianism of a new type, a dictatorship differing from communism in name, colors of decorations and the set of lies publicly repeated many times over. This is a dictatorship without a doubt. The first victims of dictatorship are person's fundamental rights, dignity and good name.

The official propaganda of the last twenty years tried to deceive that this is the best period in the entire thousand years of Poland's history. This is not true, because it ignores the most obvious facts of everyday life of our country.

We live in a totalitarian, lawless state. Individuals, their health, personal lives, and professional careers are ruthlessly destroyed. My experience shows that there is not a single institution in Poland defending the law. The state authorities do not react either. This proves that my assessment of the situation is correct.

This letter was also sent to Prime Minister D. Tusk and to B. Zdrojewski, Minister of Culture and National Heritage.

Destruction of Heritage in Poland

Recently one of the newspapers reported that a nineteenth century villa on the outskirts of Warsaw was destroyed by an investor, who bought the site earlier. The building was not in good shape and had to be renovated. It was, however, registered as a historical monument and an alteration of its architectural integrity was not possible. Repairs and renovations of such objects are subject to close scrutiny of a special office of the regional government. A destruction of the building is absolutely out of the question.

However, the monument was first demolished and then taken off the register of historical monuments by the minister of culture and national heritage.

The law has been violated. Part of the heritage is gone. Such stories are repeated over and over again in Poland. Why does it happen?

The answer is pretty simple. The process of gradual removal of pre-1945 heritage continues. The same process has been carried out before 1990. This is a planned erasure of the pre-1945 past. It is carried out piece by piece to make it appear as a series of unfortunate circumstances. In theory the law and the appropriate authority should prevent it. However, the use of law is subject to "revolutionary dynamics", as Stanisław Mackiewicz wrote in his book "Russian Minds in Fetters" (George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1932). The Polish title is "Myśl w obcęgach". Sometimes the law is being applied and sometimes it is not.

The main difference between the pre-1990 and post-1990 destruction of the past is the type of excuse used by the authorities. Post-1990 excuse is the capitalist anarchy of developers. However the real reason in most, if not all, cases is the same as before 1990.

The Collapse of Reason

The Hoover Institution published the book „The Collapse of Communism” in 2000. It contains the article “The Grand Failure” by Zbigniew Brzeziński, adapted from his book under the same title published in 1989. The article begins with the following paragraph.

“A single crucial fact is the key to understanding the fall of communism in Eastern Europe: Marxism-Leninism was an alien doctrine imposed on the region by an imperial power whose rule was culturally repugnant to the dominated peoples. As a result, a process of organic rejection of communism by East European societies – a phenomenon similar to the human’s body rejection of a tranplanted organ – ensued. This process played out in a contest between national forces seeking ways to free their societies from Moscow’s dogma and Soviet attempts to develop new ways to retain ultimate control over region’s destiny.”

This interpretation is incorrect.

Communism did not collapse. Instead, it was the collapse of reason among the observers of communism. Communism underwent a fully controlled restructuring, partly subsidized by western democracies. Power remained in the same hands. The communists states were criminal organizations and remained criminal. The range of illegal activities encompassed by the word "criminal" is not the same as in western democracies. There are types of criminal activities, which exist e.g. in Poland and do not exist in the West. This is due to the fact that the communist power structure remained unchanged.

The pre-1990 communist symbolism was replaced by religious symbolism. However this is only a camouflage. Religious symbolism used by the Polish state apparatus today plays the role of battle fatigues. It is a weapon in the service of deception and not an expression of religious zeal among the polit-apparatchiks.

Lenin is credited with saying "capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them". It turned out he was a pessimist. Communists did not have to buy the rope from the West. The West is providing the rope for free.