Walesa: 'We need to make one state from Poland and Germany'

[Syt]

http://www.thenews.pl/1/10/Artykul/148015,Walesa-We-need-to-make-one-state-from-Poland-and-Germany

Walesa: 'We need to make one state from Poland and Germany'

Former president Lech Walesa has said that in the era of globalisation "we need to make one state from Poland and Germany – Europe."
Walesa made the remarks in an interview with Russia's ITAR-TASS news agency in the lead up to next month's meeting of Nobel Prize-winners in Warsaw.

Recalling his role as the leader of Solidarity, and the influence the trade union had on other dissidents behind the Iron Curtain, he said that "my struggle led to the reunification of Germany and the creation of the state of Europe.

"We removed the borders," he added.

"We have gone so far in our technical advancements that we are no longer located in our own countries.

"We need to expand our economic and defence structures, and various others, and make one state from Poland and Germany – Europe," he said.

"This is the broadening of geographical structures, while the economy and democracy should also be altered," he reasoned.

"It's Lego bricks."

Meanwhile, Walesa said that institutions such as the United Nations, NATO and the Council of Europe were "ideas from a past era" and that the world is "badly organised."

On Poland's relationship with Russia, Walesa reflected that there was much room for progress.

"The Germans have done us a lot more evil, and the relationship we have [with them] now is much better than that with Russia. Why?

"Because after the war, Germany fully confessed to all its dirty tricks. It's necessary to say once and for all who did something evil, full stop. Until we do, the wound won't heal." (nh)

What is Hans Frank doing these days?

[Ed Anger]

The Polacks had their chance and blew it.

[Caliga]

Does Poland need: Lebensraumski?

[derspiess]

The Polacks had their chance and blew it.

[Tamas]

Does Poland need: Lebensraumski?

[Viking]

Germans are probably wondering if this is a test of some sort...

Either say they say yes and are nice to the poles or they say yes and freak out everybody and convince them that germany still wants to conquer europe.

[KRonn]

Well there's something you don't see everyday from a Pole!

[derspiess]

They should start by giving Silesia & Pommerania back to Germany.  The map just looks better with those two arms outstretched, ready to give Poland a big, warm hug.

[Syt]

They should start by giving Silesia & Pommerania back to Germany.  The map just looks better with those two arms outstretched, ready to give Poland a big, warm hug.

I think Germany has had her fill of integrating misdeveloped ex-Warsaw Pact territories for the next century or so.

[dps]

They should start by giving Silesia & Pommerania back to Germany.  The map just looks better with those two arms outstretched, ready to give Poland a big, warm hug.

I think Germany has had her fill of integrating misdeveloped ex-Warsaw Pact territories for the next century or so.

Maybe they should just go for Anchluss.

[Zanza]

No.

[Archy]

was tried in 1939, failed miserably, worst idea ever.

[Valmy]

Heck we are still trying to make one state from Belgium.

[Jacob]

It may not be a practical idea, but it's a positive sign in terms of how Poles (or at least Walesa) view Germans.

[Ed Anger]

It may not be a practical idea, but it's a positive sign in terms of how Poles (or at least Walesa) view Germans.

He just wants to steal their hubcaps before the Hungarians get around to it.