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"Poles actually have sound reasons to celebrate: they have navigated the treacherous transition from Communism better than most of the post-Soviet satellite nations, and theirs is the only country in Europe to have avoided a recession during the financial crisis.
Instead, they are feeling insecure, pessimistic and uncertain about the future, and they have turned on one another.
“We have a beautiful face in tough times and during difficult moments, but in normal times, we are lost,” said Jan Oldakowski, an opposition member of the Parliament who was one of several members of the opposition Law and Justice Party to recently quit the party to form a more centrist coalition. “With freedom, Poles do not know how to cooperate with each other.”
The political leadership is at war with itself. Personal attacks and insults are flying.Poles actually have sound reasons to celebrate: they have navigated the treacherous transition from Communism better than most of the post-Soviet satellite nations, and theirs is the only country in Europe to have avoided a recession during the financial crisis.
Instead, they are feeling insecure, pessimistic and uncertain about the future, and they have turned on one another. The political leadership is at war with itself. Personal attacks and insults are flying. Politicians have traded accusations of drug abuse, mental illness, collaborating with the Nazis and being agents of Moscow."
ALSO, By a vote of 324-57, Russia's Duma condemned the Katyn massacre (uncovered graves pictured) and directly blamed Soviet leader Josef Stalin for the 1940 execution of more than 20,000 Polish officers. It called the killings committed by Soviet secret police a “crime by the Stalinist regime and the Soviet Union, a totalitarian state.”
FOR MORE DETAIL, SEE:
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/duma-declares-stalin-to-blame-for-katyn/425148.html
