The writer has bought the story of " the collapse of Communism" in Poland, without realizing that the heirs of the Stalinists have retained position and power. The current struggle between them and the "right-wing nationalists" is focused on judicial reform. Allow me to quote a Polish friend, for some  background. "The professional group that needed the most scrupulous accounting for its previous deeds was the judiciary. In 1940's and 1950's and then again in the 1980's it was involved in judicial acts of terror that resulted in thousands of people executed by judicial murder, and perhaps millions being terrorized, losing their jobs and being unable to find another. But the line of judges that were brought to office by Stalinist authorities was allowed to stay, on the premise that 'the group will clean up its act.' It never happened."