When the issue of German reunification weighed on the table in 1990, Chancellor Helmut Kohl did his best to sweep the issue of compensation for the Polish victims of the Nazi occupation under the rug. And he succeeded.
Read more... Reading time 5 min.On August 28, 2024, a ceremony took place in Fort Worth, Texas, which went down in history of the Polish Air Force. Poland officially received its first F-35A "Husarz" (Winged Cavalryman) fighter plane.
Read more... Reading time 12 min.I just finished watching the US presidential debate. Unfortunately, I didn't learn anything new. Apart from the familiar slogans from previous speeches by both candidates, the debate lacked any specific programmatic elements.
Read more... Reading time 3 min.The German executioners did a lot to erase the traces of their crimes in the Chojnice Valley of Death. After many years, we have extracted the remains of the victims from the unmarked pits and are providing them with a dignified burial.
Read more... Reading time 4 min.From the very first days of fighting, the Germans committed heinous crimes against the local population and Polish Army soldiers, thus violating the provisions of the Geneva Convention. They began the systematic extermination of the Polish population.
Read more... Reading time 7 min.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.
Read more... Reading time 6 min.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.
Read more... Reading time 8 min.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.
Read more... Reading time 4 min.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.
Read more... Reading time 5 min.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.
Read more... Reading time 6 min.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.
Read more... Reading time 18 min.Waldemar Biniecki
Everything indicates that, for the first time in the history of diplomatic relations between Poland and the United States, the function of the US ambassador to Warsaw will be assumed by an American lawyer and diplomat of Polish origin, Mark Brzeziński.
Read more...Andrzej (Andrew) Woźniewicz
A few months ago, the word spread around the world, which reportedly surprised even the insiders: Poland and Turkey signed a contract for the supply of Turkish Bayraktar TB2 unmanned combat drones for the Polish army.
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