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“the fourth partition of Poland,”

Either there's a mistranslation somewhere, or the guy doesn't know his own history.

There were three partitions of Poland in the 18th century, and the Nazis and Soviets split it up again in 1939.

Which would seem to make the process he was complaining about the 5th.

OK, interesting article.

Doesn't give much background, but apparently some Polish pol doesn't want to give back some property to the heirs of those the Nazis stole it from back in the day.

Since this theft took place 75 years ago, all the actual participants are dead.

I don't know how Kopycinski came into possession of this property, but it would likely be an injustice for it to be taken from him and returned to the heirs of the original owners. It is unlikely he had anything to do personally with the original property, and may in fact have acquired it in perfectly good faith. Quite possibly with no awareness of is history.

The answer, of course, is for the government to compensate either the heirs of the original owners or Mr. Kopycinski. Possibly some or all of this money should come from the descendants of the states responsible for the original theft and murder, the Germans or Russians.

I found the general tone of the article more than a little disturbing.

I mean, listen to this bastard, Kopycinski, he’s actually complaining about giving back property his family and his neighbors have stolen almost 70 years ago.

The author provides no evidence that Kopycinski, his family or his neighbors were personally involved in the theft of this property. Apparently they are to be standins for all Poles, who must suffer now because some other Poles in the past did bad things.

You'd think a Jew would have the common sense to reject this POV, as it was the one used for centuries to target Jews.

If we apply this principle comprehensively, a whole bunch of Americans are going to have to give the land they live on back to the Indians. Possibly all of us.

The author seems more like a mental patient than a journalist.

I'll guess that he would not be as enthusiastic an advocate of returning Brooklyn to the descendants of its native inhabitants.

He seems ignorant of history in general.

If foreign invaders (Wehrmacht) steal property and then another set of foreign invaders (Red Army) take it from them, and then the new foreign proprietors forcibly resettle new inabitants where the old ones used to live, and the old inhabitants have either been murdered or have fled to safety, and the property was then abandoned 60 years later by the invaders leaving the property to maybe a third or fourth generation of new inhabitants, what do you do?

Turn the new people out in the street, apparently, and call them murderers.

How about this, instead: let the Russians and Germans pay reparations for what they stole and destroyed to the descendants of the original injured parties.

Is the author going to move to the property and take up residence among people whom he hates in a land he clearly despises?

Hardly. What he wants is the value of his inheritance.

Germany is paying substantial reparations, perhaps "The New Russia" should use its oil wealth to pay some of its own historical debts.

What the author clearly wants is to rip open old wounds and commit new injustices because he is a nasty person who enjoys conflict and bitterness.

Oh boy. here it goes again :))

"There’s an enormous cover-up being perpetrated in the world about how the Poles were forced by the bad Germans to give up their Jewish neighbors. How any Polish person who hid a Jew was subject to the death penalty himself. And while these facts were true, they don’t do much to erase our own racial memory of the glee and blood thirst with which the majority of Poles handed over their Jewish neighbors."

Priceless :))

"My family owned a large apartment building on Novolipje Street in Warsaw. We also owned a large home and a store in a town outside Lodz called Brzeziny. Since the nazis were very efficient about murdering my entire family, and the Polish governments since 1945 have not seen fit to give the stolen property back to my father, we didn’t have much hope to ever see it back."

"Polish governments" after WW2 nationalized that property just like nearly anything else. Polish governments after 89 have no clue If the owners or their direct heirs are even alive today. His father, in order to get some compensation (as actual property was most likely destroyed during WW2) would have to prove his rights going through court process, just like thousands of Goys and Jews have done...I guess this guy would like to see German style compensations with billions going to "Jewish NGOs" as quite a few were demanding since years. Well, no :)))

"The Regulatory Commission for Jewish Communities is supposed to return to the rightful Jewish owners at least the property that was seized by the Communists after the war. But I don’t think this will ever happen."

The Commissions were set up to return nationalized property to religious organizations (Catholic Church, Jewish communities, Protestants etc.) and have nothing to do with individuals and their claims. KopyciÅ„ski guy is the 3rd rate far-left politician, who's been "fighting" against Catholic Commission for years, looks like now he picked up another one :)

Did you write that strange text by yourself ? You guys should better check the basic facts first and think for a while If producing such xenophobic garbage makes sense.

I'm so looking forward to hear from you soon.