Hey Comrades, Hungary has just been punished by the EU (by withholding funds) just after Orban won the elections in supermajority. While he undoubtedly is an ultranationalist, anticommunist, homophobic, transphobic, racist far right crackpot, i think we should very critically support him against the EU, since hes the only EU leader that is neutral in the Ukraine War, open to having good relations with Russia and criticizes Zelenski for what he is, a neonazi. What do you think comrades? Should we offer very critical support to Orban or not?
Unfortunately not only young people are like that. Most likely she was invested in solidarność or at least strongly supported it in the 80’s and when that proven to be traitorous scam which caused incredible tragedy of capitalism restitution she just went into denial and refuse to admit she was wrong. I know tons upon tons of people like that. Also from the contex i get she do not live in Poland? Emmigrants are mixed bunch, but often either they simply lie because they weren’t even part of those events (and the polonia groups in let’s say Germany or USA is very anticommunist gusano bunch). I mean solidarnosc is still our biggest labour union despite being anti-union and scabbing strikes of other unions. That is some serious mental baggage. Also religion. Catholicism in Poland was always crazily anticommunist and more than ever after 1989, so religious people are truly lost case here.
False.
Suuure, friend of friend of frien who hear something… more like one hour waiting at the police station got “slightly” heroised in the gossip. Very characteristic for Poland is fact that the amount of “anticommunist combatants” rise quickly the further from socialism we are.
There was problem in the 80’s where 10 millions of solidarnosc members striked for months causing entire economy to a crashing crisis, especially that westerners after being more open in the 70’s imposed sanctions in the 80’s - very unfortunate for people like Gierek who thought to be the next Tito and tied some of our economy to western trade. But again, i remember those times and i was never hungry, and i was never buying anything on black market, though that sadly existed, mostly because just as Lenin warned, peasants were just petty bourgeoisie while workers were socialists, and they were always coddled by state and allowed to cheat the system. There were food stamps in the crisis for a time (not permanently) and you had to stand in queue in shop for sometimes quite a long time, but “no food” is just a propaganda lie. If there was “no food” there would be famine and population drop and we had a demograpic height in the 80’s.
Ah yes, that explains everything. Poland was and still is severely braindrained since the 1989. As you can see immediately turning people liar and gusano, and creating a desperate need of validation. Same with the new bourgeoisie. The transformation went good for them, especially the ones who plundered the state property. Success for the few, suffering for millions, as usual in capitalism.
Hahaha that must have been funny. You will find nothing just in shops. You can sometimes buy old books printed before 1989 and some antiques but if you want something new you must order it from abroad (aliexpress have tons of communist memorabilia). The same about books, since 1989 there were basically 4 communist books printed in Poland (Marx Capital - but only 1st book, Marx 18 brumaire, Manifesto, Xi Jinping Governance of China - also only first book and it isn’t really a communist book - all in small amounts), so you have to get english books from abroad which is very expensive or use digital versions. And the language barrier to properly understand the text in case of books not in your language is still much higher especially in case of not being pulp novels but something like Capital.
She lives in Poland, however she often stays here in Spain (where i live) for months because her son, who is a successful investigative scientist, lives and works here (which is how i know her). I dont think she was involved directly with Solidarnosc, although it is possible that she supported it. For more context, she was from a former small-middle bourgeois family. An uncle of hers owned several companies in Australia and in fact illegally left PRL in the 1950s to continue his bourgeois life in Australia. She claims they were watched closely by the police for their family history. She also claims she wanted to study medicine at university but wasnt allowed again for her family history. She worked as a worker in a butter factory, which she says was very mismanaged, with most people spending half of their workday doing nothing. Also idk if geography correlates with politics in Poland, but in case it does shes from a small village near Poznan.
I dont think this was a friend of a friend though. She detailed her friend telling her he had been handcuffed and restrained in uncomfortable positions for many hours. Also sleep deprivation, threats and repetitive interrogations at random hours of the night. Although again im not sure how reliable any of this information is since another time she told me that “in PRL, if you made an anticommunist joke you would be disappeared to Siberia” xD.
How old are you? Did you live through PRL? Id love to hear a first hand account of PRL from a communist!
In that case this is actually possible, though not necessary, families of gusanos were often used by foreign agencies, but there were quite many of them so probably that uncle really did something along those lines?
Honestly no idea, never heard about such things explicitly. If her family was bourgeoisie it could be the reason since universities did enforced positive discrimination - so called “points for origin”, where candidates from peasants and workers, and also those from remote backward places had easier to enter the university and those from intelligence and bourgeoisie had it harder (and that worked since PRL had huge achievements in education). Or maybe she just did not passed because very mundane reasons and now blame it on socialism, i know a lot of those people too. Who knows now.
This did happen because full employnment policy although half day is great exaggeration unless strikes halted supply. Still better than giving one worker the labour of three to do. And it was not mismanagement, anyone who says that do not have any knowledge about mass worker management. They either operate under capitalist mindset of exploitation (or maybe are fash expecting state to form mobile labour batalions… for what exactly?).
Probably this reliable, meaning zero. I could read few articles too and give a very detailed record of how i was arrrested by police for telling joke about wałęsa. Oh, but at least one homeless guy was arrested in Poland for lese majeste of president Kaczyński.
I was stupid and ignorant teenager when the PRL was destroyed. As Parenti said: i never appreciated what i had.