My Polish perspective of Episode 2 of Faith and Reason February 24th 2022: Russia’s invasion is an opportunity to recall the message of Our Lady of Fatima.

To: John-Henry Westen

https://www.lifesitenews.com/video/russias-invasion-is-an-opportunity-to-recall-the-message-of-our-lady-of-fatima-faith-and-reason/

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Saturday 26^th February 2022

Subject: Episode 2 of Faith and Reason February 24^th 2022: Russia’s invasion is an opportunity to recall the message of Our Lady of Fatima. My Polish perspective.

Dear John-Henry

How are you? My name is Vince Barwinski and I’m an Australian Catholic of Polish paternal descent, born in Sydney Australia in 1962. Just now I watched episode 2 of Faith and Reason and a week earlier I had watched your first episode. I think your new show to Life Site News poignantly illustrates the dystopian Orwellian nightmare of globalism – itself a satanic hybrid of crony capitalism, Fascism and Marxism – that the world on so many levels is spiraling into. I say satanic hybrid, because this, as I have heard many other religious commentators allude to, which I am sure you agree; is a spiritual battle.

In this letter however, in light of your episode 2 on the Ukraine, I wish to give you my take on it as an avid amateur historian of proud Polish descent, who has worked in Poland as an English teacher from early September 2004 to late June 2005, and revisited twice since with my wife. I have twice visited Poland’s holiest shrine of Jasna Góra (Luminous Mount) in Częstochowa in late May 2005 and early June 2008 and experienced the nationwide outpouring of grief in early April 2005 when Pope John Paul II passed away. As well, I visited the Muzeum Powstania (Uprising Museum dedicated to the memory of the 1944 Warsaw General Uprising – not the 1943 Jewish Ghetto Uprising) in Warsaw in early October 2004 and the Auschwitz Concentration Camp Museum in late June 2005 just before then returning to Australia. Moreover, in Easter 2005 I visited, albeit very briefly, the Ukrainian border.

Fr. James Altman and Jack Maxey made the point of not demonizing Russia and for America, Canada and the west in general to get their own houses in order, in particular issues such as the southern US border and eroding freedoms in the west – the plethora of the latter including pseudo-vaccine mandates leading to the brutal crackdown of the Canadian truckers. This of course, is just the tip of the iceberg so to speak. Solitary confinement of January 6^th detainees is a further example of how the list just goes on.

In the process, the west’s credibility in condemning the Russian invasion of the Ukraine has been undermined by its hypocrisy subservient to the globalist agenda. For myself, this boils down to the most loathsome of choices. That being on one hand, a cold, calculating and ruthless former KGB operative Vladimir Putin, a virtual dictator since the turn of the century in a pretend democracy, poisoning political opponents who fled to the west and committed to the re-establishment of the Soviet Union as alluded to recently by Mike Pompeo in a FOX News interview.ⁱ On the other hand, the west essentially led by a fraudulently elected regime with a blithering, vapid, incognisant and weak dotard of a puppet Joe Biden, resplendent with his suspiciously Obama-like cabinet, committed to the obliteration of America’s constitution and the basic freedoms of the west in general to which myself included, have come to take too much for granted.

From the Polish perspective, my suspicions of Putin are further exacerbated, especially given my very deep and meticulous research into incidents of Stalinist WWII atrocities perpetrated upon Poles, and how they are blithely dismissed by Putin and his Russia of today. To begin with, it is an undeniable fact of history, that the Soviet Union invaded Poland from the east on September 17, 1939, which was sixteen days following Hitler’s invasion from the west on the 1^st. Nevertheless, on September 1, 2016, Russia’s Supreme Court upheld the conviction of Perm blogger Vladimir Luzgin for reposting a text which states that both Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union invaded Poland in 1939. The ruling was handed down on the 77^th anniversary of Hitler’s invasion of Poland.ⁱⁱ

The Soviet invasion was in accordance with the secret protocol of the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, also known as the German-Soviet Non-aggression Pact, or other variants, whereby Hitler and Stalin would agree to the carve-up of Eastern Europe.ⁱⁱⁱ It was signed in Moscow on the night of August 23-24, 1939 – just a week before Hitler’s invasion of Poland which precipitated WWII. The pact was supposed to have lasted ten years,^iv but of course would be violated by Hitler on June 22^nd, 1941 when he launched Operation Barbarossa – his invasion of the Soviet Union.^v

Nevertheless, the twenty-one-month duration of this brutal and oppressive Stalinist occupation of eastern Poland was enough time to facilitate the deportation of 1.7 million eastern Poles to the frigid hell of the Siberian gulags,^vi where half would perish. Certainly, this is a history Putin’s Russia wants suppressed. Many pro-Soviet writers, and Putin himself have blamed Polish obstinance in refusing to allow Soviet troops on their soil prior to any possible Nazi invasion, but given the 1919-20 Polish-Soviet war and 120 year partitioning of Poland from 1795-1918 in part under the Tsars, this was never an option. I have explained this in more detail in my research. In any case, does this justify the deportation of 1.7 million Poles to the frigid Siberian Gulag hell?

Then there is the episode of the Katyń Wood massacre near Smolensk in western Russia in April 1940, where 4,000 Polish officers were executed by Stalin’s secret police – the NKVD. The term Katyń eventually came to encompass other such massacres in the Soviet Union at that time, raising the number of victims to over 20,000. Admittedly, Katyń was not an extermination of an entire ethnic group on the scale of the Jewish Holocaust or Rwanda. However, it was the calculated and deliberate murder of a nation’s elite,^vii simultaneously embodying classicide,^viii with the intention of obliterating its political and creative energy for the future.^ix Hence, many in Russia today, Putin included, want to bury this, with many such memorials in Putin’s Russia being removed.^x Moreover, many western neo-Stalinist academics such as Grover Furr of New Jersey’s Montclair State University, try to pin the massacre on advancing German troops during the Barbarossa invasion.^xi However, such claims do not stand up to thorough scrutiny as I have documented in my research.

Moreover, just briefly again from Polish WWII history, there is research I have titled “AK and 1944 Warsaw General Uprising — Stalin’s mass murder by German proxy.” AK referring to the anti-communist Armia Krajowa – the largest underground movement by far in Nazi occupied Europe. This research was inspired by my early October 2004 visit to Warsaw’s Muzeum Powstania – Uprising Museum. This heroic 63 day uprising by the AK against one of the most powerful armies in the world at the time, namely the occupying German Army, while the Soviet Army on Warsaw’s eastern outskirts remained essentially idle for months encompassing the entire duration of the Uprising, became such an embarrassment for Stalin and the post-war Polish communist regime, all talk of it was banned in Cold War Poland. Hence, the Uprising Museum was only opened in June 2004, just months before my visit and years following the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe in 1989. For many Poles, WWII did not end until 1989. I indeed, concur with this sentiment.

As was alluded to in your video footage in episode 2, Klaus Schwab spoke proudly of his young global leaders such as Justin Trudeau now infiltrating and indeed leading governments world wide. However, the video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daE0jthD5F8 from 33 seconds in, even has Klaus Schwab stating that Angela Merkel along with Vladimir Putin are part of their older generation of “young global leaders” of the World Economic Forum, while the likes of Justin Trudeau and the president of Argentina are part of their new generation.

This has got me thinking. In September 2018, China and Russia in eastern Siberia held the largest military exercise ever in history.^xii Xi Jinping and his CCP, are of course the darlings of the WEF and so one could conclude here that Xi and Putin are allies. And with Putin’s invasion of the Ukraine, I have sensed a distinct rift forming in conservative circles in America fanned by the incessant Democrat narrative of Trump’s “collusion” with Russia.

But here is what I think. Namely, that crooked Hilary Clinton and co in 2016 were really the ones colluding with Russia. The so-called Russian “hack” of Democrat National Convention (DNC) computers in 2016 I think was done with Putin’s and crooked Hilary’s knowledge. Crooked Hilary’s outrage with Russia was merely the feigned outrage that the narrative of Trump collusion with Russia demanded.

Joe Biden and Hunter Biden’s corruption does tie in with a Moscow mayor. And as John Durham in his investigation has uncovered, a Russian named Igor Danchenko is involved.^xiii Moreover, as Joshua Philipp of The Epoch Times says of CCP projection:

“Accuse others of what you yourself are doing.”

And Putin as an ex-KGB operative, would be more than just casually familiar with this concept.

In any event, whatever you may think of Putin, I think I can safely say that we agree on one point. Namely, that this Ukraine debacle would not have occurred under Donald Trump’s watch. Indeed, as Dinesh D’Souza points out, it does make a mockery of the Democrats’ claims that Trump is Putin’s man. If that were indeed the case, would Putin have not have invaded during Trump’s term?^xiv Clearly, the so-called “incompetence” of the southern border and the Afghan debacle are so extreme, that as Dinesh D’Souza puts it, it has to be by design to discredit and destroy America. The present Ukraine crisis, is merely another contrived crisis to that end. All I feel, not directed by the decrepit old fool that is puppet Joe Biden, but by the mentally sharp and eloquent snake in the grass that is BCC – Barack Closet ComObama.^xv To which, Obama’s exchange with the then Russian president Dmitry Medvedev at the late March 2012 Seoul Nuclear Security Summit, when he erroneously thought the microphones were off, is more than suspicious:

Obama: This is my last election. After my election I have more flexibility. [Why is BCC so certain of his 2012 election???]

Medvedev: I understand. I will transmit this information to Vladimir.^xvi

In closing, with family in Taiwan from my wife’s side, I now have concerns for Taiwan. Namely, will the CCP emboldened by the feckless and fraudulent sewer in DC, now invade the democratic island nation so strategically important to Japan and America? Itself, a shining example of what a free, prosperous and democratic society of ethnic Chinese people can achieve.

Yours sincerely

Vince Barwinski