波兰前总统瓦文萨及38名前波兰团结工会成员致信川普抗议其在白宫侮辱泽连斯基
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Dear Mr. President,
We look upon the relations [interactions] in your meeting with President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky with anger and distaste. We see your waiting for him to show respect and gratitude for material help given by USA in exchange for Ukraine fighting Russia as insulting. Gratitute is due to the heroic Ukrainian soldiers who spilt their blood in the cause of fighting for a free world. For over eleven years, they fell on the front in the name of these values and for the freedom of their fatherland, which was attacked by Putinite Russia. We don't understand how a leader of a nation which is the symbol of the free world is unable to see that.
Us being insulted brought back to us, that the atmosphere in the Oval Office at the time of this conversation reminded us of [the kind of discussions] that the SB [Soviet-era Polish secret police] held in interrogation rooms and Communist courts. Prosecutors and judges, on the orders of the Communist political police also explained to us, that they held all the cards and we held none. They demanded for us to stop our activities, arguing that thousands of innocent people are suffering due to us [the activities of the Solidarity opposition in the 70ies and 80ies]. They took away our freedom and citizens' rights, since we didn't agree to work with the authorities and we didn't show them gratitude. We are shocked that [Trump] treated Mr. President Vladimir Zelensky similarly.
The history of 20th century shows that every time when the USA wanted to show distance from democratic values and its European allies, it ended with a threat to [the USA] itself. Woodrow Wilson understood that; he decided to enter the USA into WW I in 1917. FDR also understood that, deciding after the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 that the war in defense of the USA won't be only in the Pacific, but also in Europe [in support of] allies who were attacked by the Third Reich nations.
We remember that without Pres. Ronald Reagan and American financial involvement, the collapse of the USSR empire [wouldn't have happened]. Reagan had the understanding that in Soviet Russia and countries colonized by it, millions of enslaved people were suffering, among them thousands of political prisoners, which for their sacrifice in the defense of democratic values, paid with their freedom. His greatness comes from, among other things, that without wavering, he called the USSR the "Evil Empire" and he brought a forthright fight. We won, and a monument to Pres. Reagan stands in near the US Embassy in Warsaw today.
Mr. President, material help - military and financial - cannot be the equivalent of blood spilt in the name of freedom and independence of Ukraine, Europe, and the entire free world. Human life is priceless, and it cannot be measured financially. Gratitude is needed for those who sacrificed their blood and freedom. For us, the people of "Solidarity", former Communist political prisoners of the regime serving Soviet Russia, this is clear.
We appeal to the USA to hold itself to the guarantees, that they gave along with Great Britain in the 1994 Budapest Memorandum, in which is written an obligation to defend the immovable borders of Ukraine, in exchange for [Ukraine] giving up its nuclear arms. Those guarantees are without conditions: they don't contain a single word about treating such help as an exchange for commercial benefits.
Lech Wałęsa followed by names of 38 other former Solidarity members and dissidents against the Communist Polish regime.
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Dear Mr. President,
We look upon the relations [interactions] in your meeting with President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky with anger and distaste. We see your waiting for him to show respect and gratitude for material help given by USA in exchange for Ukraine fighting Russia as insulting. Gratitute is due to the heroic Ukrainian soldiers who spilt their blood in the cause of fighting for a free world. For over eleven years, they fell on the front in the name of these values and for the freedom of their fatherland, which was attacked by Putinite Russia. We don't understand how a leader of a nation which is the symbol of the free world is unable to see that.
Us being insulted brought back to us, that the atmosphere in the Oval Office at the time of this conversation reminded us of [the kind of discussions] that the SB [Soviet-era Polish secret police] held in interrogation rooms and Communist courts. Prosecutors and judges, on the orders of the Communist political police also explained to us, that they held all the cards and we held none. They demanded for us to stop our activities, arguing that thousands of innocent people are suffering due to us [the activities of the Solidarity opposition in the 70ies and 80ies]. They took away our freedom and citizens' rights, since we didn't agree to work with the authorities and we didn't show them gratitude. We are shocked that [Trump] treated Mr. President Vladimir Zelensky similarly.
The history of 20th century shows that every time when the USA wanted to show distance from democratic values and its European allies, it ended with a threat to [the USA] itself. Woodrow Wilson understood that; he decided to enter the USA into WW I in 1917. FDR also understood that, deciding after the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 that the war in defense of the USA won't be only in the Pacific, but also in Europe [in support of] allies who were attacked by the Third Reich nations.
We remember that without Pres. Ronald Reagan and American financial involvement, the collapse of the USSR empire [wouldn't have happened]. Reagan had the understanding that in Soviet Russia and countries colonized by it, millions of enslaved people were suffering, among them thousands of political prisoners, which for their sacrifice in the defense of democratic values, paid with their freedom. His greatness comes from, among other things, that without wavering, he called the USSR the "Evil Empire" and he brought a forthright fight. We won, and a monument to Pres. Reagan stands in near the US Embassy in Warsaw today.
Mr. President, material help - military and financial - cannot be the equivalent of blood spilt in the name of freedom and independence of Ukraine, Europe, and the entire free world. Human life is priceless, and it cannot be measured financially. Gratitude is needed for those who sacrificed their blood and freedom. For us, the people of "Solidarity", former Communist political prisoners of the regime serving Soviet Russia, this is clear.
We appeal to the USA to hold itself to the guarantees, that they gave along with Great Britain in the 1994 Budapest Memorandum, in which is written an obligation to defend the immovable borders of Ukraine, in exchange for [Ukraine] giving up its nuclear arms. Those guarantees are without conditions: they don't contain a single word about treating such help as an exchange for commercial benefits.
Lech Wałęsa followed by names of 38 other former Solidarity members and dissidents against the Communist Polish regime.
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>> 老是向天祈祷，这不是好习惯而且当年雅鲁泽尔斯基搞军管，苏联也支持，也确实把团结工会镇压下去了问...
贬低苏东反共政治运动在推翻苏联过程中的决定性作用，这你是苍白无力的论点。没有当年团结工会的决定性打击及波兰共产党的失败退让，苏联不会垮台。没有人认为苏联自己会在经济困境下倒台。你说苏东反共政治运动只是苏联倒台的辅助因素，这我在网上头一次听说。一般都认为苏联倒台首先是东欧各国尤其是波兰的反共运动引起的。贬低当年苏联东欧反共政治运动对苏联集团灭亡的决定性作用，有辅助中共贬低中国大陆反共政治运动能推翻共产党政权的邪恶作用，希望你不要故意为之。
另外你所谓 “苏联最终确实把团结工会镇压下去了” 是错误的。见维基百科：
https://zh.m.wikipedia.org/zh-hans/%E5%9C%98%E7%B5%90%E5%B7%A5%E8%81%AF
“团结工联的出现，对长期由波兰统一工人党一党专政的波兰来说是前所未见的，也是苏联集团国土内第一个独立工会。巅峰时，团结工联联合了约一千万名成员；1981年9月全国大会前，团结工会总人数达到950万，构成了波兰工人总人口的三分之一。[5]波兰政府为防止苏联干涉与政治动荡，曾于1981年至1983年实施戒严，随后展开政治迫害；但波兰统一工人党政府的统治基础不断削弱，最终被迫开始与团结工联所领导的反对势力在波兰圆桌会议上对话，并于1989年6月4日进行了半自由的选举。在这次有限的选举中，波兰统一工人党候选人被彻底击败，同年8月底波兰形成了团结工联所领导的联合政府；很快社会主义性质的波兰人民共和国政权便被废除，取而代之的是资本主义民主政治的波兰共和国；莱赫·瓦文萨在1990年12月的总统选举当选，成为波兰首位民选总统。团结工联的成功事迹引来其他苏东集团国家的各种反对团体效仿，最后导致东欧的社会主义政权相继垮台，间接促使了1990年代初的苏联解体。”