Adam Michnik on Poland under the Kaczynski brothers

Adam Michnik, chief editor of the Polish daily Gazeta Wyborcza, criticises the current Polish government under the Kaczyński brothers. In an interview with Magdalena Sodomková, he defends former Czech president Václav Havel, who has proposed that international observers be brought in to monitor the upcoming elections: "These Polish illiterates can neither read nor hear what Havel said. ... As for the Kaczyńskis, their foreign policy is compromising our country. Once Poland was a respected authority, but now it's isolated. You just need to look at the way the Kaczynskis have behaved towards the Germans ... as if Angela Merkel were Adolf Hitler's little sister. I'm not saying we shouldn't assert our interests, but not with this kind of language. I know this language. This is the way the Serbs and Croats spoke to each other when war broke out on the Balkans."

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