Communism has already claimed more than 100 million lives around the world. There are places on earth where people are still losing their lives because of it. And yet in global consciousness it is not presented in a manner as unambiguously pejorative…
“The extermination plans were appalling. In the first phase of the GPO, the Germans wanted to kill about 100 million people” – says p rof. Grzegorz Kucharczyk, a historian from the Polish Academy of Sciences and an expert in the history of…
“43% of Poland’s historic buildings were destroyed or damaged. In Warsaw, it was as much as 92%. I think that to illustrate the scale of destruction, the example of our capital is the best. Before the war, it had a population of…
Hungary/EU – Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has once again criticized the European Union’s hegemonic, totalitarian drift. His numerous detractors in the EU are now attacking him for supposedly drawing a parallel between today’s EU and Hitler’s Third Reich, which is clearly…
Poland/Ukraine – The beginning of the year in Ukraine was marked by Russian bombings, but also many commemorations of Stepan Bandera, a particularly controversial historical figure. Such commemorations go down badly with neighbouring Poland, where people still remember the horrendous ethnic cleansing…
By Rafał Ziemkiewicz.
Polish President Andrzej Duda announced at the beginning of January that he would not take part in the commemorations of the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz by the Soviet Army. The organizers of the commemorations, held on 23…