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Col.Jozef Swiatlo-Secret agent, torturer, CIA-collaborator to be tried? [145]
We can read:No thinking required-seems it's all in 1jola's selective copy and pasting :-)
I'm out milk, but here is a biscuit,
Since you are quoting from the same article I quoted from, you know that I have read the article. Here is the article again:
As for the perpetrators, although the Soviets led the way,[55] they found many eager Polish collaborators. Although no thorough search has been undertaken in the secret police personal files nationwide, the evidence accumulated here suggests that most of the functionaries of the Communist terror apparatus were ethnic Poles of lower class origin. The witnesses mention but a few Jewish Communist perpetrators.[56]
The little 56 means a note. You have to scroll down to read it. It says:
[56] This seems to have been the case especially in the countryside but to a lesser extent on the central command level. See Chapter Six, "The Local Elite under Soviet Rule, 1944-1947," and Chapter Eight, "Ethnic Minorities under Soviet Occupation, 1944-1947," in Marek Jan Chodakiewicz, Between Nazis and Soviets: A Case Study of Occupation Politics in Poland, 1939-1947 (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2003)
From the same author:
In our sample below we have documented more than 500 cases of torture. Almost all victims described below were ethnic Poles and Catholics, save for a single Jewish man. One hundred and fifty four victims are identified by name, including 21 women. Most of the victims of torture, except for some of the youngest ones, were involved in both the anti-Nazi and anti-Communist struggle from 1939.
Besides, this deals with interogation. This doesn't:
As Professor Krystyna Kersten has noted perceptively, the independentist insurgents and the parliamentary opposition were the chief "reactionaries." Significantly, "reactionary" was synonymous with "bandit," "traitor," "fascist," "Hitlerite," "anti-Semite," and "Jew-killer." Whoever killed Jews was not just a traitor, but also "an agent of Hitler." Anybody who opposed the Communists was also a potential "Jew-killer," or at least could be accused of such terrible anti-Semitic deeds, and, hence, branded "a Nazi collaborator."
Now, remember that notes are important?
46] This propaganda ploy therefore required that the Communists effusively play the role of the sole protectors of the Jewish people. On April 17, 1949, the head of the proxy regime in Warsaw, Bolesław Bierut, cynically informed a visiting Jewish-American delegation that "killing a Jew is ten times more of a crime than ordinary killing" and vowed to punish severely anyone responsible for crimes against the Jews. See Joseph Tenenbaum, In Search of A Lost People: The Old and the New Poland (New York: The Beechhurst Press, 1948), 227.
Now, what were we talking about?
We should call people what they call themselves? Good idea. Now we have agreed that no Polish Jews were involved with the Party or the security services post-WWII. Religion was not compatible with Stalinism...
You seem to be under the impression that all Jews must be religious; they seize to be Jewish if they don't believe in God. Is that right, genius? And we haven't agreed on anything yet, but your logic is lacking.
