Trump also feeds the ethonationalist myth that it was a 1979 papal visit, not a mass trade union, that mortally wounded Communism in Poland
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Replying to @Pinboard
This is a myth that has legs in Poland? Even in Catholic school we were taught about Solidarity and Lech Wałęsa.
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in the current right-wing Polish political context, Walesa is a demon/Soviet secret agent who sold the country out
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As in "it was all staged, evil people still in power", etc.? That would not be unique to Poland...
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Replying to @pinkthingie @tqbf
the Polish version is “the country was sold out to a cabal of elites (the ‘Salon’) who conspired with the communists”
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