Hundreds jeer as Poland's last communist leader is buried. - Polidicks

[img]http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/d0.MDzk1lsFee3sFyYLsRA--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTQ5MDtweW9mZj0wO3E9NzU7dz03Njg-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/da808f14a971765791aafe86c211934f4ccc2fbd.jpg[/img] [i]Demonstrators hold up a poster of Poland's late communist leader, General Wojciech Jaruzelski (top), and portraits of victims of his Martial law policy in 1981, during Jaruzelski's burial ceremony at Warsaw's Powazki military cemetery on May 30, 2014.[/i] [quote]Police stepped in to keep order as demonstrators chanted "out with Communism" and "go to Moscow" as the urn with Jaruzelski's ashes was interred in the military wing of the historic Powazki cemetery during a ceremony aired live on national television. Some protesters held up pictures of victims of the brutal 1981 martial law crackdown imposed by Jaruzelski, who died Sunday at age 90, with captions that said "disgraceful". The general was laid to rest with full military honours following a funeral paid for by the state, but there was no national mourning and the event lacked the usual pomp afforded to a late head of state. Stricken with cancer, Jaruzelski died just days ahead of ceremonies marking a quarter century since the June 4 semi-free elections in Poland that heralded the demise of communism, the very system that nurtured him.[/quote] [url]http://news.yahoo.com/hundreds-jeer-polands-last-communist-leader-laid-rest-185941771.html[/url]

Yep, the Polish have major grievances with Russia, so it's no wonder they're so livid over it trying to annex the Ukraine.

While I don't really put much stock into communism, it always bothers me that asshole dictators are called communists when they're anything but, just call them what they were, tyrannical monsters.

[QUOTE=outlawpickle;44953929]While I don't really put much stock into communism, it always bothers me that asshole dictators are called communists when they're anything but, just call them what they were, tyrannical monsters.[/QUOTE] He was heading a communist government that commited the same acts as pretty much all the other communist nations in the Soviet bloc (or any other Communist/authoritarian country in general)?

[QUOTE=outlawpickle;44953929]While I don't really put much stock into communism, it always bothers me that asshole dictators are called communists when they're anything but, just call them what they were, tyrannical monsters.[/QUOTE] Did you even do history lessons?

[QUOTE=outlawpickle;44953929]asshole dictators are called communists when they're anything but, just call them what they were, tyrannical monsters.[/QUOTE] Marxism isn't the only ideology that uses the name communism.

I've seen the funeral, I think the crowd was incredibly disrespectful, whistling at Jaruzelski's family and friends, shouting even when the national anthem was playing. Left a bad taste in my mouth.

[QUOTE=Raptors!;44954382]I've seen the funeral, I think the crowd was incredibly disrespectful, whistling at Jaruzelski's family and friends, shouting even when the national anthem was playing. Left a bad taste in my mouth.[/QUOTE] Fuck those people man. His family shouldnt be hated upon for his actions...

[QUOTE=Raptors!;44954382]I've seen the funeral, I think the crowd was incredibly disrespectful, whistling at Jaruzelski's family and friends, shouting even when the national anthem was playing. Left a bad taste in my mouth.[/QUOTE] That's a dick move. Ceausescu has 2 remaining kids and they aren't treated badly when they come to attention. And Ceausescu was a real dictator, this guy is a saint compared to him.

[QUOTE=ionuttzu;44954893]That's a dick move. Ceausescu has 2 remaining kids and they aren't treated badly when they come to attention. And Ceausescu was a real dictator, this guy is a saint compared to him.[/QUOTE] To be honest it's different, the kids had no choice in their parents. You guys executed Ceausescu and his wife which provides a shit load more closure than what Jaruszelski had which was basically just retirement with no accountability for his actions (he was tried but barely showed up due to poor health). I do think the jeering is in bad taste. I didn't agree with his politics, and I seriously don't believe in his explanation that Martial Law was to prevent Soviet Invasion. At least he apologised for the 1968 Czechoslovakia invasion.

Saddest thing is, I doubt anyone expected anything different.