‘If You’ve Got a Good Head on Your Shoulders,’ He Muttered, ‘You Don’t Need Lock Picks.’
Doroszewski's old dictionary as an example of the use of the word Kipełe Gives a sentence from Nikodem Dyzma's Careers Tadeusz Dołęga-Mostowicz.
Have you already checked where the yachts of Russian oligarchs are moored today? No? You have to monitor the situation on a regular basis! Fortunately, there are several places on the net that will show, inform, monitor non-stop. Can you guess who will rule Russia? No? Well, they say that the Russians themselves do not know. They sit in silence in the subway in Pitr, Moscow, Novosibirsk, Yekaterinburg, they look at each other research in the marshrutki and still do not know. Sometimes, however, they will talk about this and that.
About what, about whom? You won't learn this from Western non-governmental, open and secret agencies. This can be guessed by Georgians, Estonians, Kazakhs, Latvians, Yakuts, Russian speakers in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. You can listen to it with them, but you can't do it, unlike tracking yachts and accounts in deep intellectual laze.
In the country of Professor Stanisław Swianiewicz or Professor Andrzej Walicki, there is a deafening silence.
The media and decision-makers give the impression that it is enough to rely on information from Western allies. After all, at any time we can check where the oligarch is flying and the news is ready.
A long time ago wrote prof. Walicki yes (in a book that was published in 1980 by Stanford University Press as A History of Russian Thought from the Enlightenment to Marxism, And a year later in England At Claredon Press, Oxford):
“After the defeat of Sevastopol - a defeat suffered despite the undoubted heroism of Russian soldiers - it became clear that the feudal-bureaucratic empire, which until recently was considered the most powerful pillar of the Holy Alliance, is in fact a colossus on clay legs. The death of Nicholas I, symbolizing all the evil of the old regime, was received - in democratic and liberal circles - with a feeling of relief, with the hope that the new emperor would begin an era of profound political and social transformations. Even the government spheres have realized that certain reforms, (...), are a necessity that does not suffer from delay. Alexander II was forced to make a policy of partial concessions and to poll public opinion in order to investigate the possibility of carrying out the necessary reforms with the least possible prejudice to the existing system. There was a period of great hopes and social activity, called by modern times "thaw". (...) The mood of sublime optimism and national harmony, however, was not long-lasting." (ibid., edition: Kraków 2005, p. 276).
Old history, who cares if Alexander II was a reformer or not? We are closer to these events and mechanisms of change somewhere in the East than we think.
For example, in the city of Łódź, in the very New Centre of this city, stands the Orthodox Church of Alexander Nevsky among the greenery, erected "in the years 1880-1884 on the initiative of a committee formed by the largest Łódź manufacturers, who by building an Orthodox sacral building intended to prove their loyalty to the tsarist authorities. The temple was designed by Hilary Majewski". The Orthodox Church was ex-voto (Votivkirche) for saving Alexander II in the 1879 assassination attempt. The founders hoped to transfer the province from Piotrków to Łódź. No one complained, apparently the investment in Orthodoxy paid off quickly anyway. You just had to read something, have your reflexes and a kipele not from the parade.
The codes of war, the ciphers of what will be are surprisingly close now.