Monday, May 09, 2005

Why this blog?

This blog is intended to help Poland's democratic people gain part of their history that the "former" communists stole from them after the country's liberation from Soviet rule.

Its purpose is to provide information on collaboration with the Soviet-controlled secret police.

The blog, named after the Polish-born founder of the Bolshevik secret police, was started on May 9, 2005, in response to the Warsaw newspaper, Gazeta Wyborcza, which attacked me for asking questions about Poland's collaborators with the former Soviet occupation regime.

Gazeta Wyborcza, the country's largest news daily which likes to call itself "the New York Times of Poland," is run by "former" communists, both of the Soviet and Trotskyite strains, and includes the daughter of the chief of the old party Central Committee propaganda unit. The former Trotskyites like to call themselves "dissidents," even though they were neither pro-democratic nor pro-western.

The paper objected to my raising the issue of the alleged collaborationist background of an individual expected to be named the next Polish ambassador to the United States.

The paper issued a bizarre, four-page attack on me and my small and obscure Fourth World War blog. In the midst of its objections, it failed to address the issue of how current Polish leaders in politics and diplomacy (and journalism?) collaborated with the communist secret police and have gotten away with it.

This blog is devoted to the search for the truth of secret collaboration under Nazi and Soviet rule.