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Dear Poland,

Our government has been hijacked and our people are being ignored, defied, robbed and ridiculed by Obama and his czars. We beg your forgiveness, but until we win this upcoming revolution, and we will, we pray you will understand that We the People are not supporting this move at all.

Hang tight and we'll be back as soon as we take care of a little business reclaiming our nation.

Sincerely,

The Revolutionists

We beg your forgiveness...

You don't need to beg us for anything since you represent America of people like Ronald Reagan, etc. who were restless in their effort to topple communism all over the world. Mainly thanks to AMERICA Poland is free today and no longer trampled by Soviet thugs in uniforms. This could have never happened without the USA.

We still remember Ronald Reagan's message to Brezhnev who openly threatened Soviet Union with military intervention if the Red Army had invaded Poland in 1981 to stifle Solidarity. Let me tell you that the most optimistic estimations claimed 500,000 Polish fatalities since it was a secret to none that Polish people would have put up a spirited defense of the country against the Soviet invaders. Having no arms, no guns, that must have ended up with massacre, and this is actually what Poland was spared thanks to no less than Ronald Reagan.

We, the Polish, fully respect and admire patriotic Republican part of America, while the so called Democratic one has always been seen by Poles as the one represented by men like F.D.Roosevelt who sold Eastern Europe to Stalin in Yalta.

Free Republic is the place where nobody needs to apologize the Polish people since Freepers are men of honor. The so called Democratic part of America doesn't need to apologize us either since any apologies from dishonorable men make no sense.

Matt from Poland

Optimism comes less easily today, not because democracy is less vigorous, but because democracy’s enemies have refined their instruments of repression. Yet optimism is in order, because day by day democracy is proving itself to be a not-at-all-fragile flower. From Stettin on the Baltic to Varna on the Black Sea, the regimes planted by totalitarianism have had more than 30 years to establish their legitimacy. But none -- not one regime -- has yet been able to risk free elections. Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root.
The strength of the Solidarity movement in Poland demonstrates the truth told in an underground joke in the Soviet Union. It is that the Soviet Union would remain a one-party nation even if an opposition party were permitted, because everyone would join the opposition party
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In the Communist world as well, man’s instinctive desire for freedom and self-determination surfaces again and again. To be sure, there are grim reminders of how brutally the police state attempts to snuff out this quest for self-rule -- 1953 in East Germany, 1956 in Hungary, 1968 in Czechoslovakia, 1981 in Poland. But the struggle continues in Poland. And we know that there are even those who strive and suffer for freedom within the confines of the Soviet Union itself. How we conduct ourselves here in the Western democracies will determine whether this trend continues. No, democracy is not a fragile flower. Still it needs cultivating. If the rest of this century is to witness the gradual growth of freedom and democratic ideals, we must take actions to assist the campaign for democracy.
President Ronald Reagan
Promoting Democracy and Peace
Speech to the British Parliament, June 8, 1982

Too bad we are losing such a precious ally as USA. Since the creation of America, there were Polish people, soldiers mostly, that decided to devote their lives to creating American state. General Pułaski, father of American cavalry, who died in the battle of Savannah, Tadeusz Kościuszko, Stanisław, Ulam and many others.
We received help when we needed it, in Woodrow Wilsons "14 Points", point number 13 established Poland after 124 years of partitions. Americans were a crucial ally in WWII (there is even one President who claims his uncle freed prisoners from Auschwitz, he was probably the only black person in Red Army...)
In dark years of communism we got support from USA. Not from European-commie-supporting-afraid-of-Moscow-pussies.
Polish and American troops fight hand in hand in WoT, the strongest support of WoT came from Eastern Europe, yes, yes those ex-Communist (anti-Communist) countries.
I guess we will have to wait three years before Polish-American turn normal.