From Danzig to Donetsk

SEVENTY-FIVE years after the start of the second world war, the West seems to capitulate again to aggression, say Polish intellectuals. In an appeal, signed today, the anniversary of the start of the war, in Gdańsk (pictured in 1939, when it was called Danzig, just after the outbreak of the second world war), published in Gazeta Wyborcza, a Polish daily, La Libre Belgique, a Belgian daily, Die Welt, a German daily, Le Monde, a French daily, and Ukrainian media, they exhort Europe not to repeat the mistakes of the past. The signatories are: Władysław Bartoszewski, Jacek Dehnel, Inga Iwasiów, Ignacy Karpowicz, Wojciech Kuczok, Dorota Masłowska, Zbigniew Mentzel, Tomasz Różycki, Janusz Rudnicki, Piotr Sommer, Andrzej Stasiuk, Ziemowit Szczerek, Olga Tokarczuk, Eugeniusz Tkaczyszyn-Dycki,...Continue reading