Jacek Magala

Pool in Nederland. ❤️ klopt voor de publieke zaak. 🇵🇱🇳🇱🇺🇦

[Ewa Zajączkowska-Hernik @EwaZajaczkowska]

Proszę o podawanie dalej❗Terminal w Gdyni zostanie oddany na wyłączność w ręce... Szwedów! Oto "repolonizacja" zapowiadana przez tę zdradziecką władzę.

Podwójny skandal polega na tym, że w przetargu uczestniczyło też polskie konsorcjum Polsca, które zaproponowało korzystniejsze warunki finansowe i posiada odpowiednie zaplecze do obsługi terminalu, a mimo to ekipa Tuska przekazała nowoczesny Publiczny Terminal Promowy w ręce szwedzkiego operatora Stena Line na wyłączne użytkowanie aż do 2032 roku.

Jak bardzo trzeba działać przeciwko polskim interesom, żeby narodowy operator, który składa lepszą ofertę i tak przegrywał rywalizację o obsługę polskiej infrastruktury z zagranicznym podmiotem?

Polskie konsorcjum już złożyło odwołanie od decyzji portu i zapowiada możliwość skierowania sprawy na drogę prawną. Do takiego momentu dotarliśmy po 1,5 roku rządów tej antypolskiej koalicji - nie jesteśmy gospodarzem we własnym kraju i walkę o polskie interesy trzeba zaczynać w samej Polsce.

[Jacek Magala @JacekMagala]

@CDzwoni Oby. Módlmy się 🙏

[Andrew A. Michta @andrewmichta]

For those who keep telling me that #Russia’s invasion of #Ukraine was somehow provoked by the West, here is a bit of chronology to consider. Time for a reality check. Enough said. #StandWithUkraine

[Jacek Magala @JacekMagala]

@H_Bouwmeester @Zuster_Dre Zeker! Maar ook over een Europa dat al een kwart eeuw (Tsjetsjenië, Georgië, de Krim, MH-17) liever zaken doet met de Russen dan het monster in de bek kijken. En dat in 3 jaar oorlog veel te weinig heeft gedaan om onze defensie te versterken

[Edward Reid @ReidEdwardII]

Sharing this video on Witold Pilecki, one of the greatest heroes of World War II, yet still not widely known.

He volunteered to be imprisoned in Auschwitz to gather intelligence and organize resistance from within.

After escaping, he provided one of the first detailed reports on the horrors of the Holocaust.

Despite his bravery, after the war, he was executed by the Communist regime in Poland, which sought to erase his legacy.

But his story lives on.

Watch and learn about this extraordinary man who embodied courage, sacrifice, and the fight for truth.

[Paweł "1 Star" Sokala w stanie restrukturyzacji :) @PawelSokala]

OTD 1945
Hours before fleeing Lódź in occupied Poland, as Soviets were approaching, German SS burned alive 1.5k 🇵🇱 inmates of the Radogoszcz prison (30 survived).

Wilhelm Koppe - the man who ordered it - became a director of a chocolate factory. Died a free man in Bonn in 1975. The Federal Republic of Germany refused to extradite or prosecute him.

[Wojskowe Biuro Historyczne @WBH_2016]

Jeden z najlepszych polskich dowódców września 1939 r. Kierował GO „Piotrków”, a gdy gen. Juliusz Rómmel porzucił Armię „Łódź”, przejął jego obowiązki. Przebił się na północ od Warszawy, a później dowodził obroną Twierdzy Modlin. 143 lata temu urodził się gen. Wiktor Thommée.

[Viktoriia 🌻 @home_fella]

It’s not war, it’s genocide

After the liberation of the city of #Izium by Ukrainian soldiers in September 2022, a mass grave with 447 bodies of Ukrainian citizens tortured and killed by russian troops during the occupation of the city was discovered

Never forget. Never forgive

[Edward Reid @ReidEdwardII]

While the Holocaust rightly stands as a a tragic event in history, the crimes of Communism demand equal acknowledgment.

Yet, a glaring imbalance persists.

There was no Nuremberg Trial for Communist leaders.

In Poland, Communist criminals escaped justice through a policy of conveniently “drawing a line under the past,” a luxury never afforded to German crimes.

This disparity in accountability is an enduring stain on history.

In the United States, Holocaust remembrance is woven into the national consciousness, with countless museums, including the prominent USHMM in Washington, D.C.

Meanwhile, there is no institution of comparable stature dedicated to the victims of Communism or even to the sacrifices of the U.S. Armed Forces in World War II.

Hollywood has amplified the narrative of the Holocaust but has remained largely silent on the horrors of Communist regimes.

Yet Communism’s toll is staggering. Across the globe, its crimes led to the deaths of tens of millions, rivaling and even surpassing the devastation wrought by Nazism.

In the Soviet Union alone, millions were starved, imprisoned, or worked to death in the brutal gulag system, where survival was often impossible.

Conditions in these camps were every bit as harrowing as the Nazi death camps prisoners endured backbreaking labor, starvation, and disease, and many succumbed to exhaustion or died shortly after their release.

Communism, like Nazism, systematically targeted groups based on identity.

Stalin’s Great Terror singled out entire ethnic groups, including Soviet Poles, for extermination.

The massacre at Katyn, where Polish intelligentsia were systematically executed, was a direct attempt to destroy the Polish nation’s leadership and culture.

These acts were no less genocidal than those committed by the Germans and their collaborators.

Communist rule in Poland was not born of local support but was brutally imposed by the Soviet Union.

The Red Army, alongside Stalin’s secret police, terrorized the population into submission.

Elections were shamelessly falsified to install Communist leadership, and dissent was met with imprisonment or death. In the years following World War II, tens of thousands of Poles were executed, and hundreds of thousands were imprisoned under Soviet-backed rule.

The failure to recognize Communist crimes alongside Nazi atrocities reflects a broader cultural bias.

While the word “Nazism” is universally condemned, the language around Communism has been softened, even minimized and sometimes applauded.

It is a form of historical erasure, an Orwellian attempt to diminish the magnitude of its terror.

Both regimes made total claims upon society, aiming to indoctrinate and manipulate entire populations while unleashing unprecedented levels of violence.

Both systems caused unimaginable suffering.

Yet only one has received global condemnation, leaving the other’s victims overlooked and forgotten.

Acknowledging the crimes of Communism is not about diminishing the Holocaust but about ensuring that all victims of tyranny and genocide are remembered.

History demands justice, not selective memory and the lessons of the past call for a balanced reckoning with both ideologies’ atrocities.

Photo: The show trial of 16 Polish wartime resistance movement leaders, convicted of "drawing up plans for action against the USSR."; Moscow, June 1945.

The leaders were invited to help organize the new Polish Government of National Unity in March 1945, and immediately arrested by NKVD.

Only two were still alive six years later

[Mattia Nelles @mattia_n]

There is a massive underappreciation of the Polish role especially early in the RU full-scale invasion. Poland helped 🇺🇦 to survive at a time when 🇩🇪 was discussing whether or not to send heavy weapons.
Also, mind you that the 🇵🇱 GDP is more than six times smaller than 🇩🇪's.

[Eugene Finkel @eugene_finkel]

Happy Molotov-Ribbentrop Day to all who celebrate great power agreements over the heads of other nations, designated spheres of influence, partitions and destruction of states. But hey, it did help to prevent a world war, so must have been worth it, right?

[Narendra Modi @narendramodi]

Landed in Poland. Looking forward to the various programmes here. This visit will add momentum to the India-Poland friendship and benefit the people of our nations.

[Igor Sushko @igorsushko]

Does your blood boil when you hear Germans refusing to accept Ukraine into NATO because part of its territory is occupied by Russia despite the fact that a Germany half-occupied by Russia was accepted into NATO just 10 years after it massacred tens of millions of people in WW2?

[Jacek Magala @JacekMagala]

What “credibility”….?

[Ulrich Speck @ulrichspeck]

"If Germany can't find 3 billion euros in a 481 billion euro budget to support Ukraine in its existential struggle for the future of Europe, why would Russia believe Germany would come to the aid of its Eastern European allies in times of war?"

German credibility at stake.

[Nona Mamulashvili @NonaMamulashvi]

Two years after Russia invaded Georgia…

[Oleg Kostour 🇺🇦 @OlegKostour]

Came across this interview from Sep, 2023 with former president George Bush on Ukraine.

A few takeaways:

• In Bucharest (2008), Bush called together his allies and pushed for a Membership Application Process (MAP) for Ukraine & Georgia to join NATO, to lock in democratic reforms put in place by some of these young democracies.

• "It was fought bitterly, primarily by Germany & France. We were heroes with the Poles and the Lithuanians, and the Latvians, and the Estonians. These young democracies that knew the importance of NATO in their lives. They wanted to see it extended to Ukraine and Georgia. Angela Merkel put her foot down pretty hard."

• "I believe we ought to support Ukraine until Russia is driven out of the country, and I believe the Ukrainians can prevail. After all, they are a young democracy fighting for their own freedom."

• "Both parties have got isolationist wings. It's going to be very important for leadership to explain to the American people, why Ukraine is important to the United States security interests."

• "I would tell you what impressed American's though - Zelensky. He's a tough dude. Ya know, he's hanging in. He's a Texan... I told him to hang in there. We'll do all we can at the @TheBushCenter to help him. I called him the Winston Churchill of the 21st century. And he's willing the country through. And uh, it's impressive leadership under dire circumstances."

• Speaking of a potential armistice:
"The United States should not try to impose a peace on a democratically elected government... We are not, because we're weary, to demand that Ukraine gives up a certain amount of territory to an invader."

• On whether or not he thinks there should be a timetable for US support of Ukraine:
"I think it would be a huge mistake. All that means is Putin just has to wait us out. Also, if the US sets a timetable, other nations will be pressured to set a timetable."

• Bush saw that he had a picture at the G8 summit in St. Petersburg where Prigozhin was serving him food. When asked if he remembered him, he said, "No, all I know is I survived." 😅

• On Putin: "I think he's more powerful today than when I was president.... And we'll see, he bit off a little more than he can chew. His military morale has got to be brutal... You gotta have a military motivated based upon a cause that's easy to understand and supportable. The cause of trying to take away the freedom of the Ukrainian people is a dismal cause.

https://t.co/mBj8ZWlYWe

[toomas hendrik ilves @IlvesToomas]

Russia will not be integrated into the EU for a century, and even then it is unlikely. There is no way this culture of rape and murder can be allowed into our borders until it thoroughly reforms itself and this time without all the massive aid transfers and the West's blind eye to its malfeasance, corruption and lawlessness.

And Germany after the corruption of the past 33 years will have no say in anything to do with Russia.

[Jacek Magala @JacekMagala]

@AndrzejFRLK @Poland_History Thank you