A three-day rest was announced. At that time, we were waiting for a change of escorts. The Soviets who led us this far did not have the appropriate equipment and could not lead us further into the forests. Winter in this area was almost ten months and the snow rarely disappeared. Therefore, guar
Anyone who grew up in the 1970s or 1980s probably remembers the widespread threat of nuclear attacks by the imperialist west. Not a day went by without television showing films of test nuclear explosions and maps presenting plans for an attack on the Polish Peoples Republic. Raised in the shadow of
The soldiers of the Home Army who successfully assassinated Franz Kutschera, the SS and Police commander in the Warsaw District, did not know that they had interrupted preparations for his wedding. It is hard to believe that although the groom was already dead, the wedding took place. The SS organiz
Its a bird! Its a plane! Not that… ethnologist, journalist, hero without a cloak. Like one man, acting incognito, he made war on the Ku Klux Klan and won. It couldnt be otherwise, since he had Superman himself on his side. William Stetson Kennedy was born on October 5, 1916 in Jacksonville, Flor
Journalist Clavis Rossi called him the first daredevil in Latin America. And it is impossible to deny him that he is right. While his countrymen were starving, Fidel Castro was basking in luxury. He ate in the best hotels, drank the most expensive alcohols and devoted himself to carnal pleasures wit
It wasnt about the countless dishes, always perfectly presented and solemnly feted by dozens of scantily - if any - clad slaves of both sexes, or asexuals. Nor was it the conversation, boringly polite, sporadic, and humorless; nor entertainment, reduced to repetitive series of boats in the emper
During the conference of the three powers in Yalta, Stalin received an assurance that the citizens of the Soviet Union, who found themselves in Western Europe as a result of the war, would return to their beloved communist homeland - even if they did not want to. The result of the Yalta agreements w
Life was poor in the Peoples Republic of Poland. Ordinary citizens struggled with a shortage of literally everything. Meanwhile, the gold rush continued at its best in the highest echelons of power. Party officials believed that thanks to the stolen enemies of the system they would manage to maintai
There is no war without trickery. To deceive the opponent, confuse the trail, pretend your advantage, lead out of the way, and sometimes avoid a battle - this is the canon of seasoned commanders. And although sometimes military historians underestimate the role of bluffing on the battlefield, in the
One day inspector Teslar reported to his superiors that Swiss citizen - permanent resident of Duszniki Zdrój - Kessler Karol proposes to indicate the place where two Rembrandt paintings are hidden, estimated before the war at 800,000. Reichs Marek . However, a month later in the report he wrote that
The victims of the Katyn massacre were not only Catholics and Catholic clergy. The genocide of the spring of 1940 tragically reflected the somewhat forgotten phenomenon of pre-war Poland:its multiculturalism and multi-ethnicity. One cannot ignore this crucial fact for the characterization of the
It would seem that being a Roman emperor is a dream job, full of luxury and splendor. Maybe it was true, but for a detail Between 27 BC and 476 AD (exactly 503 years), the Roman Empire was ruled by 77 emperors. According to statistics published in Acta Theologica Supplementum 7 , the average
They came from distant Asian steppes, they carried death and destruction. They showed no fear or pity. They appeared suddenly and suddenly disappeared, pretending to retreat and dragging the opponent into a trap. In 1241, the Mongolian onslaught, led by the grandson of Genghis Khan himself, set off
The deportation of homosexuals, an issue both historically and politically, aroused interest in the late 1970s due to the struggle for the rights of gays and lesbians. This issue was reflected in a number of studies introducing the topic and in elaborations on the number of victims and the place of
On November 16, 1937, a plane crash happened with effects comparable to that which took place in Smolensk on April 10, 2010. Over 80 years ago, almost the entire family of rulers of German Hesse perished due to the prevailing fog. Their death contributed to the imminent extinction of one of the olde
Sadistic, brutal warriors who murdered whomever they fell into in battle, left cities and villages completely looted and bathed in blood, and had no mercy for their enemies. This is how Roman propaganda portrayed the barbarians of the Germanic tribes. But were they actually that cruel? With stori
Darkness ... Darkness can be so dense that sometimes it seems even tangible. We then feel how it surrounds us, how it takes on a material shape that plays on the invisible strings of our mind. Some call it the sixth sense of sudden dread, a warning of impending danger. Sometimes this primal inst
The Red Army liberated Auschwitz on January 27, 1945; on the spot she found demolished crematoria and only a few thousand prisoners. All camp records have disappeared. However, there were traces of what happened in the camp. Many warehouses have been destroyed, but hundreds of thousands of mens and
On Holy Thursday in the year 1519, Spanish ships landed on the shores of the Aztec state - at the height of todays Veracruz, Mexico. A day later - on Good Friday, April 22, 1519, the leader of the expedition, Hernán Cortés, went ashore. Emissaries of the Aztec ruler Moctezuma were waiting for him on
On August 22, 1939, Adolf Hitler, a week before the attack on Poland, was reportedly supposed to deliver the famous Armenian quote, saying to the Wehrmacht leaders:Kill women, old men and children without mercy; what matters is speed and cruelty. Who remembers the Armenian massacre today? There
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German psychiatrists said that there is one such pervert in three hundred people. At the beginning of the 20th century, it was one of the most widely commented on deviations. And while the whole world of sexology believed in her, that same perversion ... didnt even exist. Sometimes the ideas of
Every country, whether it is a democracy or a monarchy, has its own mysteries and myths that make up its history and culture. Britain has its own refined culture that is unlike any other. Based on the legend, history is part of the culture and what made it the country it is today. Not only is t
He is one of those rulers whom history and historians have no mercy on. A pusher of the powerful, a Germans henchman, the most ordinary figurehead with no merit. This is how Władysław Herman, reigning in the years 1079-1102, was remembered in Poland. According to Professor Kazimierz M. Barański - co
Portrait of Louis XV. The king died of smallpox in 1774 April 1774 :during one of the usual hunting trips near Versailles to whom he always dedicated his free moments, the elderly king of France Louis XV felt bad. After three days spent in bed amidst moans and excruciating pain, the court