The best tank of World War II! Slayer of tigers and panthers! The only winner of this war! Historians and enthusiasts of weapons stubbornly describe the Soviet T-34 in superlatives. Completely wrong. When in June 1941 Germany attacked the USSR, information began to flow from the front about the em
The team that Czesław Kiszczak has built at the Ministry of Internal Affairs are the most effective Polish Chekists. They introduced martial law, persecuted the opposition and invigilated the Church. Their names flow from all the high-profile communist crime cases. Its high time to recall their bigg
A few days ago Maciej Gablankowski wrote about Kiszczaks team. The article sparked an avalanche of comments. Many of them concerned the further fate of the perky secret police officers. Has justice been done? Please judge for yourself. The reward for loyal service to the communist system was oft
Entertainment of monarchs. Passion of people of power. The driving force of Polish politics. Freemasonry for centuries influenced the fate of the Republic of Poland - for good and for bad. Polish freemasons did not start modestly. From the very beginning, freemasonry was the entertainment of kin
If Herod were charged in the trial of the slaughter of the innocents, the prosecutor would be hard to crack. He would have one witness and a poor accuseds opinion. Defense would be better prepared. Could a conviction be obtained in this circumstantial trial? The account of Matthew the Evangelist
The Soviet Union was a rule of law. Arbitrary, ruthless, full of absurdities and tailored to the needs of one man. But still - the law. Everything had to be justified, even the murder of an entire nation. And it was precisely the search for justifications at the request of Stalin that the executione
Celibacy among Polish clergy began to be introduced in the 12th century. It was going like December. Even two centuries later, many priests still firmly believed that they were not only allowed to have intercourse with married women and virgins. In the times of the first Piasts, no one was inter
Tens of millions of brutally abused prisoners. Millions of fatalities. Ruthless torture, heartless sentences and the greatest destruction machine in the history of mankind. It is impossible to understand the crimes of communism. And even more so - to absolve. As always, all positions in TOP10 ar
Modern science rarely brings to light such absurdities. Two Krakow historians remind:Germans not only massacred people of Jewish origin. They also forced Jews to pay insurance. The economic exploitation of Polish Jews began shortly after the defeat of the September campaign. As early as November
This is not an absurd question at all, at least in the light of Marcin Wolniewiczs findings. A historian of the Polish Academy of Science proves that racial arguments were very important in Polish independence propaganda. Also those referring to the Aryan race. During the uprising, they were pro
The recipe for political success is very simple. Get arrested by your existing allies as soon as they lose the war. Do absolutely nothing for another year playing solitaire in a luxury prison. And now you can accept the title of fatherland liberator. When, on the night of July 21-22, 1917, Germa
In the winter and spring of 1945, the troops of the Red Army advancing deep into the Third Reich committed mass rapes on German women. The victims were both 12-year-olds and 70-year-old women. It is estimated that over 2 million women were raped across Germany at that time. The Red Army soldiers
He spent his life with one woman, but only loved men. A genius and scandalist, the prototype of the stereotypical gay hairdresser, he was friends with clergymen and crowned heads. And the authorities of the Peoples Republic of Poland honored him with the Order of Polonia Restituta. The king of h
Paid subversives? Russians in disguise? Jews? Thanks to the research of Mirosław Szumiła, we finally know who the people who built the communist system in Poland were. Although the post-war history of Poland arouses great interest among researchers and readers, we still know relatively little ab
The last years of Brezhnevs rule have gone down in history as a pathetic spectacle starring the living dead. Brezhnev suffered from dementia and was completely childish. It was even joked that he was only kept alive by the blood of infants shed at night. When he died in November 1982, everyone breat
The Mickiewiczs had fights, inns and lawsuits to their credit. Two of them left this world under tragic circumstances. The glorious origin of the Polish national bard was unable to p Lets start with the fact that in the middle of the 18th century there were five brothers:Jakub (the poets grandf
Does every dictator have to be a bloody tyrant? These four leaders seized power in a coup détat and fought the opposition by force, yet the crowds loved them. Until at least. The word dictator is generally associated with bloody despots like Hitler, Stalin or Idi Amin Dada. In history, however,
Visceral ripping, genital biting, rape of children - this is not a description of the B-class horror, but the achievements of the first emperors of the Roman Empire in a telegraphic summary. Feel free to read the deviants post The founder of the empire was Augustus. However, we will not pay too
Not without reason, prostitution is called the oldest profession in the world. While the last mammoths were chasing joyfully on Wrangel Island, in Egypt, hundreds of workers building the Djoser pyramid were just as joyfully taking advantage of the services offered by gentlemen. The Egyptians did
Pre-war Poland is not only a country of impeccable manners, honorable officers and great cafes. Below is a list of 10 pieces of information from the Second Polish Republic that you will not find in history textbooks. We will complain, but not because we have anything against pre-war Poland. In
According to tradition, the Frankish Emperor Charlemagne brought about a revival of culture and the flourishing of education, which had so far been completely neglected. Half the poverty as much as the truth in such a vision of reality (because, of course, it was not that everything was due to one K
They were called contemptuously medicine men, their knowledge was mocked, their morals and competences were undermined. Even those whose skills surpassed their colleagues had no chance of practicing medicine, not being able to obtain the necessary permits or chances to gain the patients trust. What
For Hungarian Jews, the last year of World War II was the most difficult. Tivadar Soros, father of the famous businessman and social activist George Soros, tells the story of his family at that time. A cheerful disposition, World War I military experience and natural cunning made Tivadar and his ent
Jur fought in Wola, the Old Town, Śródmieście and Czerniaków. He did not hesitate to risk his life again and again - he received a number of awards for his heroism in the Warsaw Uprising. Years later, however, he admits that not everything went as it should ... [Tells Edmund Baranowski, pseudony