Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Bringing the Polish Thunder

All that was necessary for the downfall of communism, he used to say, was for the barriers of fear and passivity to fall.
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2 comments:

Tecumseh said...

A great man, indeed. He died in a car crash a couple of weeks ago -- what a shame. At any rate, at the risk of repeating myself -- communism did not fall because of people joining hands and singing kumbaya. It was a deeply entrenched, evil system, supported vociferously and enthusiastically by the Pepes of the day (same old, same old). Communism fell because of a long, tenacious, twilight struggle in which many sacrificed. Bronislaw Geremek was one of those foot soldiers who brought real change about. RiP.

7/29/2008 7:52 AM
My Frontier Thesis said...

Geremek was one of those few intellectuals Orwell would've admired.

7/29/2008 9:06 AM

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