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Ryszard Legutko

Ryszard Legutko is a professor of philosophy at Jagellonian University in Krakow, Poland. He has served as Minister of Education, Secretary of State in the Chancellery of the late President Lech Kaczynski, and Deputy Speaker of the Senate. He is currently a Member of the European Parliament and a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee.

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Poland Preferred to Fight, Fought Bravely, and Lost Terribly

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In response to: 80th Anniversary of a Poisonous Partnership: Hitler and Stalin

Moscow, August 23, 1939: Vyacheslav Molotov (foreground) signing non-aggression pact with Adolf Hitler's foreign minister, Joachim von Ribbentrop, who stands behind chatting with Josef Stalin. (alamy.com)
It chose the honorable option (joining the democratic nations) when it might have allied itself with one dictator to try to ward off the other.

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Whiplash: Communists Worldwide Scrambled to Adjust to the Pact

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They were ordered to blame the Nazi invasions of Denmark, Norway, Belgium, Holland, and Luxembourg in 1940 on the “rapacious” Western democracies.

A Devils’ Alliance and a Civilizational Failure

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During the Hitler-Stalin Pact, the two nations’ secret police shared intelligence. The NKVD turned German communist exiles over to the Gestapo.

Comparing Two Totalitarian Monsters: Peter Kenez’s Reply

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In our discussion of the Molotov Ribbentrop pact we must conclude that the personalities of the two dictators mattered.

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Liberal Democracy’s Challenge to Freedom: A Conversation with Ryszard Legutko

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The great Polish political theorist, anti-communist thinker and member of Solidarity, Minister of Education, Secretary of State in the Chancellery of the late President Lech Kaczynski, and Deputy Speaker of the Senate, and current member of the European Parliament, Ryszard Legutko, joins this edition of Liberty Law Talk to discuss his latest book, The Demon in Democracy.

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