Examining Poland's past

"The principle of Polish 'lustration' is fair, but has arrived twenty years too late", considers the editorialist Pol Mathil. "It was, of course, at the time of the peaceable transition from dictatorship to democracy in 1989/90 that the political police files should have been opened and measures imposed according to their contents. ... It is naive to think that such an operation, started after so much delay, can deliver a 'new man'. ... On the contrary, we can expect this purification of a bygone era to not only fail in re-establishing national cohesion, but exacerbate division of Poles. The paradoxical aspects of lustration do nothing to improve its credibility. Lustration bases conclusions on files established by the Communist secret police who were in the habit of falsifying its archives... . It is not possible to build; as the 'twins' wish, their moral revolution on such foundations."

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