Collaborators face purge as Polish twins go to work

[muriel_volestrangler]

IT IS a nervous summer holiday for Poland’s teachers. The new Government of Jaroslaw Kaczynski is preparing a purge of hundreds of thousands of Poles suspected of collaborating with the communist secret police — including headmasters and university chancellors as well as journalists, diplomats, army officers and politicians.
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A list of those who were secret police officers in the communist era is to be placed on the internet. The names of their informants will be available. Anyone in public life who is on either list — and was born before August 1, 1972 — can be sacked.

The Transparency Law, passed in 1997, has hitherto applied only to politicians. They faced a ten-year ban from political life if they were found to have lied about their former contacts with the secret police. Those who had been communist agents were allowed to lead normal lives provided that they did not seek a political career. About 27,000 people were vetted.

The Kaczynski twins want to push harder. This week the Prime Minister installed as Deputy Defence Minister Antoni Macierewicz, a passionate anti-communist who has been told to get rid of suspect members of military intelligence. The appointment was announced without Radoslaw Sikorski, the Defence Minister, being consulted.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=post&forum=102

Sigh. While the secret police did nasty things, and it wasn't a good regime, I don't see that it's worth digging up the past like this. I really don't like what I hear about these twins.

[xchrom]

1. what is it with eastern europeans and purging?

it's gotta be in the water.

[DavidDvorkin]

4. Well, during the Communist years, some of them binged

So now . . .

[xchrom]

5. binge and purge! binge and purge!

:bounce:

[Canuckistanian]

2. Most Poles are anxious to leave the past behind them

I was told by my Polish boss that nobody harbors any grudges to former communists. It's widely considered that communism was forced on them and people did what they needed to to survive and provide for their families.

I even asked him whatever happened to General Jaruzelski, the hated former communist leader. His answer surprised me. He said nobody cares about him now, he's living quietly in an apartment building somewhere.

[itzamirakul]

3. I join you in that long, drawn-out sigh............

I have come to the conclusion that, no matter how sophisticated and technologically intelligent we may become, at heart we are still just a bunch of tribes, constantly watching each other and playing that old children's playground game, "King of the Hill."

The neocons and neolibs who are at the core of this warmongering problem have infiltrated governments world-wide, because the ultimate goal is world dominance. By joining BOTH SIDES in every country, they can then wreck havoc and cause divisions among like-minded people. If the people are getting along alright, they START fights, like this digging up of old problems in Poland.

I haven't studied Poland well enough to know who is who, but you can believe that SOMEONE in a position of power is owned by the world dominance cabal. Poland will be sold out just as is America, etc.