Jacek Stawiski
Jacek Stawiski is a commentator for the Polish news television channel, TVN 24.
Updated: 9 November 2009
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By Jacek Stawiski
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Debate: How the left lost it
22 September 20101262 Polska The Times Warsaw -
Berlin Wall: Lest we forget Poland...
9 November 2009142 Polska The Times Warsaw
With its representatives confined to the opposition benches nearly everywhere in Europe, the left is increasingly unable to propose a real alternative in a world where ideology is progressively disappearing. 
Almost everyone remembers the fall of the Berlin Wall as the moment that marked the end of communism in Europe, but five months earlier, the first free elections in Poland had already paved the way for change. Journalist Jacek Stawiski complains that our sense of history has been skewed by a fondness for dramatic images.