Undoubtedly, the period in which I lived for historians and cyber-archeologists would be interesting.
The longer I live, the more it seems to me that historians about the Polish period in which I lived will describe it as a period of liberation from the Soviet-Russian yoke (the fall of communism, the war in Ukraine) and the bold pursuit of a Western way of life (under the sign of the US and the UE). Am I happy that Poland is under the influence of Western countries? Yes, I am. I already wrote a post that the most potent weapon of the US is Michael Jackson. How happy I am that I was born three years after releasing the “Thriller” album and three years before one of the most astonishing albums ever made, “Bad.” I listened to these albums while living in a fantastic town named Malkinia Gorna (the northeastern part of the heart of Poland, Mazovia).
I mentioned it in the post entitled “The ’90s in Poland.”
In this post, I want to stress that, personally, I am happy that Poland is under the influence of Western countries. It has been happening practically since my childhood. I was born in 1985, four years before the collapse of the Soviet communist system in my homeland. From school and my parents’ information, I know that communist times devastated the Polish economy. I have no doubts that in the face of choosing between the West and East, the Poles decided to “Go West” (as the remarkable British pop-synth Pet Shop Boys sang). Of course, there are not, and there will never be ideal places to live on this planet.
Still, I prefer listening to Michael Jackson’s songs and earning money rather than drowning my sorrows in vodka with my Russian “friends.”
Of course, all these writings do not mean that all the Russians are pure evil. No. The world is not simple, black and white. Still, I am happy that Poland belongs to the West, and I hope that historians will describe the period in which I lived as facing my homeland to the West.
