Another Polish city honors President Reagan

Former Polish president and anti-communist leader Lech Walesa unveiled a statue of Ronald Reagan on an elegant Warsaw street on Monday, honoring the late U.S. president for inspiring Poland's toppling of communism.

abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/walesa-unveils-statue-ronald-reagan-warsaw-14996861#.TsqneexEO04

The statue should be interesting to see, next time I visit Warsaw.

He probably liked his movies.

Wow, quite bulky.

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What's on his back, is that some kind of coat?

The fires of hell are melting him.

Nope, look closely, those are angelic Wings of Freedom.

To symbolise the deaths caused by private 'healthcare' during his terms of office.

To be fair, he was better than his successors in the same party. He'd not get nominated nowadays due to not being extreme enough.

I hardly believe any Pole, except pro historians, know such details. The monument was erected to commemorate his contribution to the collapse of communism, not for his merits or failures in US internal politics. :):)

I do see people in Warsaw begging on the streets to buy medicine.

Perhaps a better memorial to him would be a food bank.

Communists claimed that Reagan`s sanctions on the Polish regime killed the production of chicken meat after the US had banned the export of chicken feed to Poland.

Given that the industrialised American model of chicken raising is both extremely cruel and produces very low quality meat, the less of their chicken feed the better.

No, I was talking about the ban on special food for chickens raised industrially in Poland .Corn etc.

On the American model, sadly.


Better to give them what you produce domestically and let them run free in a farmyard before necking them yourself rather than a wretched life in a hot dark factory before having both legs broken while still alive.

Of course. But small farmers withdraw from such raising and if they do, it is only for family and close friends` needs.


Darling, if you knew history, you would be aware of certain acts by Reagan which had a great impact on communist Poland in 1980s.

Yes. It's better to ban it however the processed chicken lobby is so huge (as is the demand for cheap and tasteless meat protein) that I just don't see that happening. Though it should.


Which of course is why he and the Grantham Sow are liked here. At least her name has a Th at its start which nicely deters right-wing councils here from naming streets after her.

Now I see the connection between "special food for chickens" and Reagan. Thanks.

Good! You are a smart student after all.
So, I will only add that after the Polish regime introduced the martial law in Dec 1981, Western countries imposed various sanctions on Poland. One of them was suspending 100 million $ loan for the purchase of US feed grain for Polish chicken industry. That seriously hampered the production of chicken meat here. I still remember listening to communists whine about it on TV or radio. They hated Reagan and presented him as a crazy trigger happy cowboy.

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Even Amis appreciated his merits and named one of their air carriers after the President.