Editorials/After the Plague/Ghoulish Hungary
Jr, R Emmett Tyrrell
EDITORIALS AFTER THE PLAGUE by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. Warsaw T his city reminds the traveling one of the foremost observers of con- my, but it is going to take time and there 1980s in encouraging...
...Many economists, hope of establishing a free Poland at the both here and in what for years we war's end...
...If Walethat extend from apartment windows Now the Poles are attempting to in- urges a European model "more like Swe- sa's people stumble, this pleasant, reawhose interiors are dark and strangely fuse life into the economic corpse left den...
...America, he tells me, they are among the few who seem pros-selling tiny quantities of goods: after- Ash has called Poland's unique mixture "could have done more in the 1970s and perous...
...The bout with Nazism held corporations must be privatized...
...Elec- changes...
...Along the a governmental system that still invests of "ideology in the economy...
...Restaurants and hotels are rundown and empty...
...Rather be wrecked Warsaw are still around, and wide boulevards, gray people huddle, most decision-making in Warsaw...
...With increasing success over members, who ultimately seem to sup- sounds very much like a modern Amer-say, Paris...
...Wham—one of the great cit- called the West, believe that Poland can ies of central Europe was a field of rub- make it to a free and prosperous econoble...
...Poland has peacefully thrown the city's entire population took up arms off the Marxist yoke...
...In fact, Mr...
...shave lotion, cigarettes, a little por- of ingredients has fragmented...
...Washington was "too con-flanked by massive stone buildings, the dients found nowhere else in Eastern tions scheduled for late in October will cerned with Communism...
...Cimoszewicz tells me, there was no shops or offices, the upper floors more intelligentsia counter-government, the Basically, the division among political Communism here in Poland over the offices and apartments...
...Yet there is a private farmers, the influence of the leaders is between former Solidarity past three decades...
...suave Wlodzimierz Cimoszewicz, who with a parliamentary majority...
...Cimoszewicz grisly difference between Warsaw and, church...
...ground floors of which usually contain Europe—the workers' movement, the be important...
...8 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR NOVEMBER 1991...
...What hit this place...
...In fact, the rebuilding was a sham...
...Yet the Communists never extinguished the Polish people's longing for freedom...
...Actually, he is one of stone buildings are courtyards that are break Communism's control, which it ernment corporations and follow an the ex-Communists who in the old rein ruins, with rusting pieces of junk and finally did in 1989 with its first free elec...
...After four decades of Marxist man, the whole place is worn down and worn out...
...Most nography...
...As Adapted from RET's weekly Washington Times column syndicated by King Features...
...Behind Warsaw's massive many long years, Poland struggled to port Walesa's efforts to privatize gov- ican progressive...
...The people who dingy...
...ended after the Nazis flattened the Free-market economics must be implewhole city in retaliation for the Warsaw mented...
...Jalopies creak and sputter along the streets...
...What might come against their German conquerors in the next is not so clear...
...From his comfortable offices in sonable man is ready to replace him, and silent...
...associated with the Solidarity moveActually there were two: Nazism, ment, agree with the Polish president, which came through in 1939, and Corn- Lech Walesa, that the 85 percent of the munism, which came through in '44 and economy still controlled by government-stayed until 1989...
...What pragmatic...
...Warsaw T his city reminds the traveling one of the foremost observers of con- my, but it is going to take time and there 1980s in encouraging economic changes I American of so many European temporary Poland, Timothy Garton is increased concern that the Polish peo- rather than insisting on political capitals, with their wide boulevards Ash, put it recently, Poland had "ingre- ple might not have the patience...
...Everything looks derelict and by the Communists and to reorganize Parliament he tells me to be skeptical to refill the prisons...
...Some ghastly plague has been Poles, particularly those who have been through this city...
...American model, and people like the gime's agreement with Walesa were left tattered clothes drying on clotheslines tions in decades...
...Government reforms still are Uprising of August 1944, during which needed...
...Stalin and his Polish Communist stooges saw to it that the city was raised anew, holding this monumental feat up as but another proof of the marvels to be wrought by Marxist man...
...The people who pad the streets are strangely noiseless, a condition, I am told, that characterizes many countries where Marxist bureaucrats and police have made life's most elementary exchanges arduous...
Vol. 24 • November 1991 • No. 11
