Michnik, Konrad, and the fake opposition to Communism

Comment to Gyorgy Konrad's obituary in The Telegraph. The comment was submitted in the morning of 18 September 2019 among in the digital edition of the paper but was blocked.

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Adam Michnik is a son of a Soviet agent convicted for his activities against the Polish state in the 1930s. [...]

[This text is now available at https://lsborkowski.com/pol/2019/09/29/michnik-konrad-and-the-fake-opposition-to-communism/]

My comment on The Times article Sept 9, 2019

The Times view on Russian electoral tactics: Potemkin Democracy

Comment:

"It is a mistake to assign Putin's name to everything in Russia. Yes, he is the leader but this is a collective Communist system, painstakingly formed over many decades of terror, reward and punishment. Anyone thinking that this collective fell apart ought to have his/her head examined. It is also a mistake to think that there is a whole legion of democrats battling to take over and to finally introduce true democracy. The Communist system has not fallen apart, neither in Russia nor in other countries, such as Poland. Deception runs deep. @LechSBorkowski"

Comment to the Times article 15 April 2019

Last Monday, April 15, I posted a comment to Edward Lucas' article "Julian Assange does not deserve our sympathy". The comment was not accepted. I post it here.

 Only one syllable in the article's title, 'not', has a negative connotation. The other words are positive. The expression "deserve sympathy" is strongly supportive of Mr. Assange. I would think that attempting to invert this deeply sympathetic expression by attaching a little "not" is clumsy at best. This method of constructing the title is either (a) not smart, or (b) deliberately deceptive. Take your pick.

Also, Assange's first name is included in the title, thus bringing him a little closer to the readers. Typically, when condemning someone, you would increase the mental distance between that person and the readers. Again, a little cognitive dissonance. 

Mind you, this comes from an experienced journalist. Someone else pointed out Mr. Lucas' role in a generally defined field of "information intelligence" (Information Warfare Initiative). Russia and its supporters in Eastern Eastern have nothing to fear on the part of Mr. Lucas. Quite the opposite.

@LechSBorkowski
https://lsborkowski.com/pol/

Comment to The Times article 4 March 2019

Last night I tried to post the following comment under an article in the The Times (London). The comment was blocked, so I post it here.

My name is Lech S. Borkowski. I have a PhD in Physics from the University of Florida (1995). I returned to Poland and worked at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan. I reached the associate professor level before being expelled from the Uni. in Autumn 2015. My wife Małgorzata Głuchowska, a leading pianist and piano teacher in the State School of Music in Zielona Góra, was simultaneously fired from her job as well. We lost our jobs for political reasons. My wife was subjected to a humiliating psychological "evaluation". The psychologist issued a de facto death sentence, claiming to have discovered unspecified deviations in my wife's thinking and reasoning. The Regional Center of Occupational Medicine officially banned my wife from continuing her job as a very successful piano teacher.

Mr. Lucas' article presents a false picture.

Our human rights have been violated for many years, regardless of which government was officially in power. We have written to the aurhorities, including former and current presidents and PMs. We also wrote to the European Parliament. We have provided detailed information to the Prosecutor General (Minister of Justice).
Prosecutor's Office falsified the case.

My wife and I are carrying out a project on

* Critical Narrative Analysis,
* Organised Social Violence,
* Criminal State

You can view it on the website lsborkowski.com/pol/lsborkowski.com/pol/ and at https://www.researchgate.net/project/Critical-Narrative-Analysis-Organized-Social-Violence-Criminal-State

This is work in progress.

Since loss of our jobs put us in financial difficulties, I came to the UK in June 2016 to earn a living. I worked as a night cleaner of Le Pain Quotidien restaurants in London. 99 consecutive days without a day off. Then I worked with a London company as a self-employed leaflet distributor, 7 days a week. I am now working at a fruit and veg shop in London.

@LechSBorkowski