This week we will commemorate the 75th anniversary of the end of the Second World War, and the ceremonies will take place in circumstances unimaginable not long ago.
A few months ago, it seemed that this event would be an opportunity for some countries to use Europe’s tragic past for their imperial goals and to malign others.
Today, we are all focused on the more urgent question of what will happen to us during this pandemic crisis.
Yet in these unexpected conditions in which we find ourselves, it would be good to consider the meaning of what happened in 1945.
For Poles, this is always a commemoration of our collective march through the hell prepared for us by two totalitarian states.
The destruction and genocide of German Nazism left a permanent mark on this part of Europe and our group consciousness.
Communism, along with its terror and insanity, set us back decades in development and cut us off from the world in which we had always been a part.
Kaczyński: Israeli FM statements are ‘insolent and unacceptable’
Poland doesn’t owe “even the smallest penny” in restitution
Polish PM: The crimes of the Katyn massacre must not be forgotten or whitewashed
April 13 marks the Polish national Day of Remembrance of the Victims of the 1940 Katyn massacre perpetrated by the Soviets
Could the allies have liberated Poland in WWII? New book claims de Gaulle worked with Stalin against that plan
Perhaps Poland and Central Europe could have avoided 45 years of communism if Western allies had liberated it as Winston Churchill had wanted
Biggest unexploded WWII bomb in Europe is currently being removed in Poland
The operation to defuse and remove the Tallboy bomb will take several days and hundreds of civilians have been evacuated in the Baltic city of Świnoujście
Public enemy no. 1 for liberals in Poland? Immigration patriot and Trump fan Dominik Tarczyński
Law and Justice (PiS) MEP Dominik Tarczyński has been viciously attacked for supporting President Donald Trump and opposing illegal Muslim migration
Putin again whitewashes the Stalinist era
Germany still refuses to pay reparations to Poland for WWII
Investigation: Poles were brutally murdered by Czechoslovakian border guards while trying to escape communist Poland
The National Institute of Remembrance (IPN) is currently conducting an investigation to bring the murderers to justice
President Duda: Polish history cannot be understood without the Katyń massacre
“Many of them were veterans of the victorious war against the Bolsheviks in 1920… They defended our homeland from the invasion of two totalitarian empires in 1939 and together, they died for Poland.”
Kiszczak’s archive sold to Americans
Multiple documents from the head of Poland’s communist police and special services archive have been sold to the US Hoover Institution Library & Archives in Stanford. Polish Radio journalist Wiktor Świetlik explains how these documents relate to Poland’s post-communist heritage.
95-year-old Polish war veteran vs. Germany’s ZDF
A court in Kraków will return to a case brought by a Polish veteran against the ZDF TV channel and the producers of controversial TV series “Our mothers, our fathers” for its portrayal of Poles. The 95-year-old veteran of the Home Army (AK), captain Zbigniew Radłowski who has brought the case will attend the court hearing.
It was Germans not Nazis who attacked Poland
“September 1st, 1939 is not only a day of disgrace for Germany, but also a day of reflection on what humankind is capable of,” Maciej Eckardt points to what conclusions have been taken from the Second World War.