As the world watches Australia in horror.
Even though the USA is allegedly an ally of Australia and has close links with joint initiatives like 5 eyes. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Eyes)
They are calling for sanctions against Australia for the way they have treated freedom protestors.
" US Republicans call for sanctions against Australia over police treatment of protesters ."
https://www.rt.com/news/535316-us-republicans-sanctions-australia/
With this in mind I decided to find out what it was like living in communist Poland. I did not have to go far to interview someone. The mother in law!
As some may know the WEF website has been preaching capitalism with a pinch of communism for 2 years.
Australia seem to have taken the pinch and instead used the salt pot.
All over facebook are videos of protests in Australia. I watched one yesterday where the police body slammed a gent for daring to film them.
Though it has all happened before. Here.
World war 2.
After world war 2 Poland was handed over to Russia and communism ensued.
According to my mother in law it was peaceful during that time, until the 1980's.
What changed in the 80's?
I will skip the peaceful 40 years and go straight to the 80's and what happened then. This is a witness in the first person account. According to my mother in law.
Why? Because Australia seem to be doing it in reverse.
As Australia turns violent it was easier to skip to the violent part of Poland's history.
Context.
December 1981.
"The wave of strikes in the summer of 1980 and its consequence, the birth of NSZZ Solidarity started the deepest phase of the crisis of the communist state in Poland. The economic crisis, growing since 1976, had led to a destabilisation of the political system based on hegemonic position of the Polish United Workers' Party (PZPR) in 1980. The creation of NSZZ Solidarity and its over year long period of legal functioning significantly altered the social awareness, a change which could no longer be reversed by the so-called politics of normalisation, which began after the introducing of martial law in Poland in December 1981. The banning of Solidarity and the pacification of civil protests, which peaked on the 31st of August 1982 when demonstrations of supporters of the union took place in 66 cities, had not stopped the economic, social and political changes which put the People's Republic of Poland (PRL) in a state of chronic crisis and, after a change of the international situation, led to its downfall. Below I will try to enumerate the most important factors which, in my opinion, made the crisis grow and, in consequence, led to the breakdown of the system in 1989."
Link = https://enrs.eu/en/articles/216-the-end-of-communism-in-poland
Tanks on the street.
One video I watched yesterday was the army pouncing on unsuspecting members of the public from unmarked cars in Australia.
I put this video on in front of my mother in law. She was horrified.
I could see by the look on her face it took her back to a different time. One she had witnessed first hand.
The late 1980's.
Just like Aus yesterday, 1988 - 1989 witnessed similar scenes before the government fell and communism vanished from Poland.
Here they had what they called militia. Armed police that looked more like the military than police. (I note the Australian police look the same.)
Here she tells me they also had armed vehicles on the street, tanks etc.
Protesting was banned too. (sound familiar yet?)
People were afraid to leave their own homes. (Groundhog day.)
Any gathering was banned and the hospitality sector was closed. (2020 - 2021 anyone?)
To this day in 2021 in towns like where I reside in the winter, that hospitality sector has never really come back. I can count the amount of bars/restaurants on one hand.
Even near my farm there is only 1 restaurant/bar for 20 miles.
She told me they had money, everyone did, but nothing to spend it on.
That picture is a shop in Wales UK.
This is another thing the UK and communist Poland has in common, and possibly a store near you soon.
Food shortages.
In Poland the west did not want to deal with them, so they had food shortages for decades.
She tells me she had to go over to Belarus or the Ukraine to buy a pair of jeans, Levi's etc.
Let me know if your country has food shortages below please.
From the 2 hour chat/conversation I had with her it seems eerily like 1980's communism, to what is going down now in Australia and New Zealand.
I said yesterday to my wife that the protests in Australia were over construction workers being forced to take the experimental mRNA prick. I also said let us see what happens when it is the police and army being forced to take it. And see if they still want to protect the state then.
And low and behold. BINGO.
The police and army here in 1989 turned on the sitting government and ended communism.
Watch this space for what happens next in Aus.
Have a superb week and spread some smiles.