By Andrew L. Jaffee

Is this a first? The word “collaborator” is being applied to traitors who helped the Russians/Soviets oppress millions of Eastern Europeans. The context involves a Polish bishop, Stanislaw Wielgus, who “confessed to collaborating with the communist police.” This is a start, but when will there be a Nuremberg-style tribunal to try all the Soviet murderers and their indigenous collaborators?

These scum, masquerading under the banner of “communism,” killed or imprisoned those who opposed the occupation of their sovereign territories — Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Ukraine, Belarus, etc. Some brave souls opposed the “socialist” raping of their homelands. The “socialist” commissars lined their pockets and lived comfortably in their dachas while the masses eked out a living just slightly above the poverty level. Free thinkers simply yearned for uncensored news, or wanted to start their own rock bands. What happened to the true patriots and free thinkers? Death, torture, blacklisting…

Soviet atrocities are still a footnote to history, but times are changing. The History Channel has done several specials on Stalin and Mao. But justice has not been served on those criminals now hiding (living without a care) in Russia and China.

So says the BBC of the Polish Catholic Church’s collaborator debacle:

A commission is to probe the past of all bishops and “people of the Church”.

“The bishops have confirmed the will to carry out a full verification of the truth about ourselves” and all clergy, said Archbishop Jozef Michalik, the head of the bishop’s council.

Good for the Poles. But when will all those souls who were murdered or suffered under “socialism” be given some sense of justice; some sense of peace?

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Related: Europe, Political Correctness, Communism / Socialism, Philosophy / Ideology, Russia, Baltic States

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