Posted on 11/28/2006 1:07:44 PM PST by lizol
Poland looks back in anger
New `lustration' law aims to ferret out the nation's `post-communist monster'; observers say leaders overstate the old regime's influence
By Tom Hundley Tribune foreign correspondent
Published November 28, 2006
WARSAW -- In 1989, when Tadeusz Mazowiecki, a soft-spoken Catholic intellectual, became Poland's first non-communist prime minister in the postwar era, his first promise was to draw "a thick line" separating Poland from its past.
Democratic Poland, he clearly implied, would focus on building its future, not settling scores from the past.
Seventeen years later, Poland's current leaders--Lech and Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the identical twins who serve, respectively, as president and prime minister--are determined to erase that line. Their Law and Justice Party came to power in elections last year by pledging to settle accounts with the old regime.
This month President Kaczynski signed a new "lustration" bill that will open millions of volumes of communist-era secret police files in a belated attempt to slay "the post-communist monster" that the brothers claim still haunts Poland.
Lustration is not a word commonly used in English. It means "to purify by a propitiatory offering or other ceremonial method," according to Webster's dictionary. In the former Soviet satellites of Eastern Europe, it came to mean the exposing and banning of communists and their collaborators from participation in the new system.
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Make the commie thieves pay.
The former PM, Miller lives in a development that the Commies built on stolen land (on ul. Rosola in Ursynow). Just because the Commies stole it a few years ago, doesn't mean that they should be allowed to keep it.
Clean it up.
Sounds like a good read, I'm not registering though. Could you paraphrase a bit more?
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Slip inside the eye of your mind
Don't you know you might find
A better place to play
You said that you've never been (sounds like "bean" in order to rhyme
w/"seen")
But all the things that you've seen
They slowly fade away
So I'll start a revolution from my bed
'Cuz you said the brains I had went to my head
Step outside, summertime's in bloom
Stand up beside the fireplace
Take that look from off your face
You ain't ever gonna burn my heart out
And so, Sally can wait
She knows it's too late as we're walking on by
Her soul slides away
But don't look back in anger
I heard you say
Take me to the place where you go
Where nobody knows
Where nobody knows if it's night or day
Please don't put your life in the hands
Of a rock and roll band
Who'll throw it all away
I'm gonna start a revolution from my bed
'Cuz you said the brains I had went to my head
Step outside, 'cuz summertime's in bloom
Stand up beside the fireplace
Take that look from off your face
'Cuz you ain't ever gonna burn my heart out
And so, Sally can wait
She knows it's too late as she's walking on by
My soul slides away
But don't look back in anger
I heard you say
(guitar solo)
So, Sally can wait
She knows it's too late as we're walking on by
Her soul slides away
But don't look back in anger
I heard you say
So, Sally can wait
She knows it's too late as she's walking on by
My soul slides away
But don't look back in anger
Don't look back in anger
I heard you say
At least not today.
But I have not been registered, and I opened it without any problems.
If I cared enough to use someone else's registration info I would just sign up myself. Thanks anyway.
Most interesting.
That'll do it. Thanks. :)
lustration ought to be tried here. Then the whole dem party would be cut down to 1 or 2.
Directly across from Belgradzka. The yellow osiedle. When he was PM the locals used to joke "Miller Time" when all the sirens would lead his motorcade home up Rosola.
"Lustrous" comes from Old French "lustreux" from Latin "lux" meaning "light" with its verbal form "lucere."
"Perlustrate" comes from Latin "perlustrare" meaning "to journey through, go through, to traverse."
"Lustration" comes from latin "lustrare" meaning to "journey, to travel."
A "lustrum" was an animal or other offering which was carried or led around the altar to dedicate it before sacrificing.
"Lustration" means sacrifice, "perlustration" means a surveying or surveillance.
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