Shine a little light on thee

Fire of Liberty

It seems that the new government in Poland has decided that the time has come to finally air out everything that the former Communist dictatorship of Poland committed in accordance with their Warsaw Pact masters in Moscow during the Cold War. Luckily, the current government realizes that the crimes or nefarious activities that were committed throughout the Cold War by their former masters deserve to come to light as much as the records and events of Pinochet, Fujimori have come to light in South America. If the world is ever going to learn about the horrific nature of Communist totalitarianism and how it threatened world peace then we need leaders like Poland's Defense Minister Radoslav Sikorski who are unafraid in revealing the truth. Here's one thing I found interesting in the recent revelations:

Mr Sikorski published a map showing Soviet bloc forces planning a "counter-attack" against Nato forces, in which the Soviets would have dropped nuclear bombs along a line from the Dutch coast to Strasbourg, wiping out cities in Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany.

But the 1979 exercise also showed that Warsaw Pact planners believed such a conflict would have seen Nato target its nuclear bombs along the line of the Vistula river in Poland, to prevent Russian reinforcements reaching the front.

Mr Sikorski said: "“The Polish army was being asked to take part in an invasion which could have resulted in a nuclear violation of our country.

"Poland is a country which would have been bombed out of existence."” He claimed 2m Poles would have died in any conflict.

The military files handed over to Poland's Institute of National Remembrance also included details of the 1968 Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia to crush the "“Prague Spring"”.

The release of the documents will reopen questions about the involvement of Polish communist-era politicians and soldiers in the Soviet-bloc alliance, 15 years after the country left the Warsaw Pact.

Hopefully this new government can finally heal some of the wounds the incurred during the Cold War. Sometimes the revelations of hard facts seem to do the trick every time.