Top achievement of polonian webmaster

Of course one could place a link to the ballot, but that would be to simplistic and very unpolish.

via Polonian wikis: Top achievement of polonian webmaster.

Michnik and Brzezinski

 

Democracy: Traps and Question Marks
3 December 2009, 4:00-6:00pm Reception to Follow

 

Adam Michnik, political activist, founding member of the Committee for the Defense of Workers, member of Poland’s first non-communist parliament, and Editor-in-Chief of Gazeta Wyborcza, Poland’s largest daily newspaper, will deliver a talk entitled Democracy: Traps and Question Marks.

 

The Honorable Zbigniew Brzezinsky, National Security Advisor to President Jimmy Carter will provide introductory remarks.

via Polish-Global-Village : Message: Wilson Center: Michnik and Brzezinski.

 

 

Brits still in the dark

It was there that Solidarity, a highly effective civil resistance movement, sat down at a round table with communist officials and hammered out a transition to free elections and a multiparty democracy. After Solidarity then went on to win the June 1989 elections, it provided the basis for a new government, formed in August, headed by a non-communist prime minister. Such a transition away from Communist Party rule had never happened before.

via Adam Roberts: The peaceful revolution of 1989 – Commentators, Opinion – The Independent.

Timothy Garton Ash: Poland has made a humiliating farce out of dealing with its red ghosts | Comment is free | The Guardian

Red Ghosts Haunt Eastern Europe by Eric Margolis

Navy ship accidentally fires on Polish port

 

Great, for years the Polish have been looking for a way to get back at us for all our Polish jokes, now they have one. How many Americans does it take to clean a machine gun? 10. One to clean it and the nine who got shot.

 

 

via Navy ship accidentally fires on Polish port – CNN.com.