| In the midst of the current Polish struggle to grip with the issue of the cooperation of individuals with the secret service during the communist era, international voices are raising their concerns about the far reaching consequences of this very thorough attempt to reveal past informants.
There have been claims in the media that the reconciliation process in Poland is stalled and all the more painful as it is nearly 20 years late. But there are even harsher voices. Timothy Garton Ash, the famous British historian and writer interested in the political system transformations in Eastern Europe, simply claims “that Poland has made a humiliating farce out of dealing with its red ghosts”.
In his article published in The Guardian, on Thursday May 24, 2007 he claims that “From Northern Ireland to Rwanda, and from Kosovo to East Timor” people had to face the question of how to deal with their difficult past. However, he states that Poland clearly ended up going the wrong way.
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It is also worth reminding that at 2pm on June 3rd, the Polish Club in Bankstown will hold a forum about Poland’s painful dealing with its communist past.
Also, SBS is showing a Dateline report about the hype in revealing the Secret Service collaborators in Poland this coming Wednesday (May 30) at 8.30pm. | 
