firkegaard
31 Mar 2009
News / Lech Wałęsa threatens to leave Poland [30]
The problem with Lech Walesa is that he was always aiming to be a Legend. And legends do not have any flaws.
Walesa was clearly an agent of sort. Maybe an agent is not a good word. He was more of a colaborator, who cooperated with communists to actually end the era of communism in Poland. Some may not like this idea, but in my opinion it was much better than another 'uprising' or 'revolution', as we can imagine how many lives those would consume.
Walesa is a traitor for two categories of people, but for different reasons:
- union workers, as what Walesa achieved was NOT what they were demanding. Please try reading the demands of Solidarnosc. They wanted to go deeper into socialims. And the communists introduced a complete free market with a single bill that has no precedence. It said that all economic activities are allowed, reserving the need for concessions in only 6 (or 12, don't remember) areas connected with national security and government monopolies. Poland was given an incredible opportunity and the rate of economic growth was never seen later again. Empty shelves in shops were full.
Of course later on more and more socialsm was reintroduced until today, mainly by 'liberal' governments to protect their influence on business. But it's still better than communism.
- Some of the right wing parties, as they were not invited for talks with communists. It was the Minister of Internal Affairs who was inviting people for talks. And the right wing patriots were not invited. Thats why they treat the round table talks as treason, and see it as talks between communist officials with their agents and socialists.
The problem with Lech Walesa is that he was always aiming to be a Legend. And legends do not have any flaws.
Walesa was clearly an agent of sort. Maybe an agent is not a good word. He was more of a colaborator, who cooperated with communists to actually end the era of communism in Poland. Some may not like this idea, but in my opinion it was much better than another 'uprising' or 'revolution', as we can imagine how many lives those would consume.
Walesa is a traitor for two categories of people, but for different reasons:
- union workers, as what Walesa achieved was NOT what they were demanding. Please try reading the demands of Solidarnosc. They wanted to go deeper into socialims. And the communists introduced a complete free market with a single bill that has no precedence. It said that all economic activities are allowed, reserving the need for concessions in only 6 (or 12, don't remember) areas connected with national security and government monopolies. Poland was given an incredible opportunity and the rate of economic growth was never seen later again. Empty shelves in shops were full.
Of course later on more and more socialsm was reintroduced until today, mainly by 'liberal' governments to protect their influence on business. But it's still better than communism.
- Some of the right wing parties, as they were not invited for talks with communists. It was the Minister of Internal Affairs who was inviting people for talks. And the right wing patriots were not invited. Thats why they treat the round table talks as treason, and see it as talks between communist officials with their agents and socialists.