Being right about a bad situation doesn’t mean you wanted it to happen – as is the case with Poland and its candidly prescient assessment of Russia’s insatiable geopolitical ambitions and malign political practises, as bluntly summarized by Stanisław Żaryn in The Critic. Żaryn implores the world to take notice and action before it’s too late.

Toppling a Communist Empire for $2.7 Million
Though widely thought of as focused on waterboarding terrorists or poisoning foreign potentates, it was by smuggling paper that the CIA achieved its most monumental triumph. R.M. Gerecht in a book review for The Washington Free Beacon charts how the late Cold War-era operation to flood Poland with Western books, magazines, printing supplies and audio recordings fatally weakened the country’s Communist dictatorship, setting the stage for the downfall of the entire Soviet empire. Total cost: US$2.7 million.


