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Adam Michnik awarded for integrity, professionalism and high standards. Poland's No. 1 fascist? [321]
@jon357
He is certainly one of the most honored and awarded poles I won't dispute that. Also like I said I do believe that gw is the most popular paper. That's not rly saying much as newspapers have been in decline for decades. Perhaps by us standards yes it is a centrist paper but firmly left/center left by polish standards. He has tons of awards, honorary doctorates, order medals, etc. I am not saying that he is stupid - far from it. I am pointing out his lack of patriotism and loyalty to ones country, lack of honor, and his hypocrisy. Although the patriotism can be disregarded since typically most leftists don't have much patriotism for their country. That's fine just different ideologies.
Its just a matter of different ideas - some view trump as good some do not. That's the beauty of debate and society. You may view him as a great but most poles who's families lived under jaruzelski cannot. Same with much of the youth. They view michnik as a traitor who's been on a crusade to whitewash the deeds of commies, esp jaruzelski kiszczak and co., as early as the 90s while abandoning his friends and colleagues like walesa along the way. That fact cannot be disputed. These men should have been tried in a polish court but michnik did everything possible for that not to happen. We all know he tried to influence lech Kaczynski not to being jaruzelski to trial. Michnik is and always has been a communist - the only time he was a dissident is because they started going after Zionists and to him Zionism trumped communism. Otherwise he would ve not cared what the government did to zionists and would ve continued being a loyal commie.
Whether abuse takes place in yeshivas in poland or not isn't the issue. Im pretty sure its minimal though. His paper regularly discusses affairs outside of poland. I am merely pointing out that he'll be quick to criticise some priest in the us, australia, vatican, etc over sexual abuse. However he will never criticise a rabbi doing the same things regardless of geography. He can write about priest abuse in the us but why not rabbis? He can criticise poland for not accepting refugees, but why not Israel? He writes about how Syrians and others are in such dire straights but his exact words when interviewed and asked of his opinion of the Israel-palestine conflict said 'its a non issue'. This hypocrisy cannot be denied.
Like I said, the man knows also nothing about loyalty, patriotism, or even honor. I can understand his left wing pro commie ideology leaves him little room for patriotism to poland but what about loyalty to his friends and colleagues, especially lech, that helped him out? He begged lech laczynski for statutory abolition to protect jaruzelski and co... Only to continue to write negative articles about the kaczczynskis. He pulled a similar back stab with lech walesa - for a few years he polished lechs boots with his tongue then he got his wyborcza off the ground, thanks to lech walesa, but yet supported mazowoecki in elections in a total backstab... Despite the fact that lech walesa helped michnik -
lecb basically told michnik to establish wyborcza only for gw to be used against walesa .. Then when michnik realized mazowiecki had no chance of winning he used his wyborcza to celebrate walesa. He even went as far as to make up lies that tyminski was an sb agent even though the guys from Canada -
clearly a total lie which wasn't retracted till after elections.
Like I said the man knows nothing of loyalty to ones friends, nothing about honor, and he'll use the media only for own goals and ideology - sucking up to political adversaries to protect his communist martial law criminal friends then throwing a hissy fit when he didn't get his way. This is of course after using his newspaper against the very man who he advised for years and worked alongside and helped him found gw (or at least gave him the blessing to do so), walesa, then sucking back up to him only when realizing mazo had no chance. These are all indisputable facts. The only people he hasn't backstabbed were other Zionists like kuron and gross who he's known since at least the 60s. Not to mention his selective criticisms of poland - he'll criticize priests but never rabbis, he'll criticize Poland's migrant policies, but never israels, he'll shed tears for Syrians but Palestinians are a 'non issue'
He may be one of the most decorated and honored poles receiving all these awards orders and honorary degrees from netherlands, Germany, and France but none that I know of from poland. That's because most poles know he is a backstabbing treacherous commie white washing globalist cfr member who will never criticise israel or zionism but is overly critical of poland and Poland's church. Thankfully he's in his 70s so my children will be able to grow up in a michnik free poland. Although to my understanding he doesn't even live in poland and hasn't for years. He's a resident of NYC.
Im willing to bet Jon that you didn't live during stan wojenny and your parents and grandparents didn't either. I could be wrong of course. However in general people who did live during those times recall the tanks in the streets, the food shortages, the thefts and corruption by government officials, and the suffering of common people. Those same people would never want to whitewash the communists deeds esp jaruzelski and protect them from having to answer to charges committed during that time. Why michnik has been working for over 25 years to protect the communists is beyond me. It could be a tradition in his family though to screw over polish people - after all his brother stefan michnik ordered the deaths of countless poles including ak officers.
So no jon, a family who's killed ak members and polish people, whitewashed communist deeds and protected them from trial, backstabs his friends only to come back and support them depending on what's convenient, overly criticizes poland and the church while never even uttering the smallest criticism of israel, among many other deeds can never be thought of as a great pole. Maybe in other parts of the world but not in poland to the average pole. The only reason why he even was able to do all the things he has is thanks to lech walesa who gave him the blessing to establish wyborcza which of course is the oldest port prl newspaper and most popular. With readership declining and more people getting their news elsewhere, so has michniks clout. He knows this too that's why he took a more passive role in gw and went back to politics. Most notably becoming a cfr member - one of the most hated globalist elitist half zionist pro one socialist world groups in existence. No wonder he fits right in.
