Archives: August 2024

Although Russia has officially acknowledged the perpetration of the Katyn massacre, this truth is virtually absent from Russian historiography today. For it does not fit into the myth of the great victory of the war, any more than the Hitler-Stalin pact of 1939, the mass deportations, the enslavement of the Baltic republics, or the colossal scale of the Red Army's marauding in the final phase of the Second World War.

When the decline of education occurred, it was followed by economic and political decline and, as a result, loss of independence. The school's task is to prepare young generations to take over and continue the development of our country. The school is to teach life in society. It should adapt methods and tools to this end.

The Ukrainian offensive in Kursk Oblast began on August 6, 2024, and was a surprising step for both the Russians and Ukraine's allies. It was the largest operation conducted by the Ukrainian armed forces on Russian territory since the beginning of the war.

How is it possible that a country that in the 1980s had a public debt of 150 percent of GDP and unemployment of 17 percent, became the economic tiger of Europe? It owes this to effective and efficient work with its diaspora.

It was a symbol of the power of the Order of the Hospital of the Blessed Virgin Mary of the German House in Jerusalem. For a century and a half, the Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights and the highest authorities of the order lived there. It was also the seat of German emperors and Polish kings. Destroyed and rebuilt many times, for centuries it has been a wonderful example of design thought and a hero of glorious and inglorious events in our history.

his summer is not just a time of rest, on the contrary, it is a time of important political, economic and military events. The comments on the first speeches of the members of the new European Parliament have not yet died down, and everyone is already seized by the fever of the conventions of political parties in the United States.

The life of Felix Paul Wierzbicki (1815-1860) is a remarkable tale of resilience, patriotism, and diverse accomplishments. Born in Volhynia, Ukraine, he abandoned his initial pursuit of medicine to join the November Uprising in 1830-1831, actively participating in pivotal battles for Polish independence. Forced into internment and later exile, he immigrated to the United States, leaving an indelible mark on various fields.

Today, Poland is a key country on NATO’s eastern flank, a defender of the EU’s eastern borders and a haven for hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians who have fled Russian aggression.

On August 14, 1982, in the prison in Kwidzyn, the militia and prison guards carried out a brutal pacification of the internment camp for "Solidarity" activists. As a result, over 80 internees were beaten, almost half of them suffered serious injuries.

He was supposed to be a military man, but the uniform was not his calling. He discovered and introduced to the world some 60 unknown species of flora and fauna. Georgians owe him a unique national park and remember that he was responsible for the creation of what was then Russia's first nature reserve. In Poland, however, Ludwik Młokosiewicz remains completely unknown.

August 16 marks the 119th anniversary of the birth of Marian Rejewski, an outstanding Polish cryptologist from Bydgoszcz. Within a few weeks, Rejewski had single-handedly achieved what cryptologists from France and England had been unable to do for many years.

The Ładoś Group, which illegally issued Latin American passports to Jews in German-occupied Europe, was the Polish Noah's Ark, saving them from extermination – said Roger Moorhouse, a British historian, author of the book "The Forgers".