Posted on 10/31/2018 3:03:20 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
“Poland recently made an ostensible move against Russian interests in Warsaw by sidelining Soviet-era graduates of Russia's most prestigious academic institution, the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO), from its foreign ministry..."
Katarina Kertysova, an analyst at the Hague Centre for Strategic Studies (HCSS), says that gradual dismissal of MGIMO alumni from senior positions at home and abroad has been under way since Poland’s conservative Law and Justice Party (PiS) came to power in 2015.
Kertysova argues in her article, entitled “Know Your Enemy,” that the Moscow State Institute of International Relations was one of the most prestigious academic institutions in the former Soviet Union and that it “attracted the best and brightest minds from all across the Soviet space, and provided access to a vital network of contacts across the region.”
Some of the institute’s well-known European graduates include Maroš Šefčovič, the European Commission's vice-president for the energy union...
“...Rotation of senior staff inevitably leads to the loss of knowledge and continuity..."
Kertysova suggests the move might have been “motivated by fears of infiltration of diplomatic ranks through the university graduates.”
Kertysova suggests Poland should follow the example of Ukraine, which “continues to maintain both formal and informal dialogues with Russia” despite de-communisation legislation and “growing anti-Russian sentiments” among the public.
She warns against "a witch-hunt of Soviet-era MGIMO graduates.”
(Excerpt) Read more at thenews.pl ...
It’s their deep state. Thank you Mr. Trump.
The newest government of Poland has been trying to do housecleaning since they won in a landslide a few years back.
That housecleaning has included changes to the judiciary saddled with judges who were persons who, following the fall of the communist government, merely took off their communist coat and put on “democratic” ones. They were allowed to do that due to a bargain with the devil Polands new democratic parties made with the old Polish communist apparatchiks, to avoid a violent upheaval and smooth the transition to elections. That judiciary was tainted by the communist past of many of its memebers and many such members were preventing true democratic reforms in Poland.
Eseentially the “socialist” and their old friends from the communist government were working together to keep Conservatives down, out of power and unable to reform things.
By the EU, the EU has complained about the judicial reforms - because it was their Leff of center friends in Poland who had been protected by the old status quo.
Now the government of Poland is going after the nests of treasonous forces in the state diplomatic corps. That is long overdue as well.
Then this “purge” is in the best interests of free Poland!
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