The scandals provided the right with an opportunity to deliver a coup de grace to the SLD in the form of parliamentary investigative commissions. The hearings, reminiscent of Joe McCarthy’s witch hunts in 1950’s America, humiliated the SLD and, in large part, compromised the entire post-1989 period.
这些丑闻给右翼提供了以议会调查委员会的形式给予民主左翼联盟以致命一击的机会。使人想起50年代美国的乔·麦卡锡推动的政治迫害的这场听证会羞辱了民主左翼联盟，并且在很大程度上拖累了89年后的整个阶段。