Damn I love the Poles. What spirit.
Sounds like they were planning to do to us what we were planning to do to them. It is a good thing for the world that we both knew we could do it to each other, therefore we were both scared to do it.
But I thought Reagan was the only warmonger around at that time.
Nice job, Poland.
I think that the conservatives in Poland are realizing that the Left has managed to create a myth in the past decade that the USSR wasn't really as bad as it was, and that Communism isn't as evil as it's reputed to be. This myth has the potential to place the West in grave danger in the future as people forget the past, which is the Left's intent. Should Communism rise again, either in the East or the West, Poland may find herself the first to be re-enslaved due to either distance or isolation from the United States. It's imperative to dispel this myth in the clearest and harshest manner possible before it can take further hold. People must be made to understand the true evil of Communism, and that is something the Left deeply wants to avoid.
I fear for the new Polish government. I have no doubt that those agents of the Left, not just in Russia but all over the West as well, will stop at nothing to keep these documents from coming to light. There is already rumbling about the EU tring to take Polish voting rights away over another issue (though I have no doubt that it will be really for far more than that).
When the Stasi records were outed fifteen years ago it set their cause back for years. Just imagine what may come out of Poland. I fully expect Russia (with EU collusion) to try to starve Poland for fuel, and this might be a good time to do an end-around via Iraq, Turkey, and Romania, and perhaps lump in Ukraine as well for good measure.