In the years 1949–52 in the uranium ore mine in Kletno in Sudetes, the Soviets - with the hands of Poles - were extracting the raw material for building their own atomic bomb. In July 1948, while examining the old mine heaps in Kletno, Soviet geologists discovered increased gamma radiation at the
On June 30, 1908, a powerful explosion took place over Siberia. The cause of it has not been clarified to this day. What has been established about the Tunguska disaster? A seismic wave that circled the Earth twice. Nights as bright as days. Millions of fallen trees. Temporary new magnetic pole. G
Disabled children were taken to forests under the guise of trips. Adults were murdered with wooden clubs or shot in the back of the head. Their only crime was that they were considered too imperfect to be allowed to live. The extermination of people with intellectual disabilities began in the Thir
He created one of the greatest ancient empires. According to some historians, however, Alexander the Great was immature and ... mentally ill. He believed that he was the chosen one of the gods, and then the god himself. He drowned his rebellious castles in blood, and his sorrows - in liters of alc
For years, the West believed in propaganda about the USSR as a country of happiness. Out of stupidity and ... calculation of people Lenin called useful idiots. Despite millions of victims of the Gulag, hunger in Ukraine, purges and genocides in Russia itself and in the conquered countries, for dec
Was the mythical Atlantis not far from the ancient world, but in its center? I am talking about the island of Santorini in the Mediterranean Sea. 1000 years before the golden age of ancient Greece, the Minoan culture was thriving in Santorini. Today, the slogan that perhaps Atlantis was located he
Master Wincenty Kadłubek wrote about the battle in Psie Pole. However, there are many indications that the battle, one of the greatest victories of the Polish army ... was not there! “As soon as it dawned, light-armed men run forward from both sides, differing in both numbers and courage. They are
Before the war, the Germans and the British worshiped him blindly. They should thank God that someone as wonderful as Hitler is in charge! - could write to the log. March 1936. The nation adores me Time runs like crazy. It has now been three years since I have served as Chancellor of the Third
This is where Hitlers Wunderwaffe is to be created - a biological weapon. The Ursuline Convent becomes the seat of evil. The work is led by the experienced war criminal Kurt Blome. Today Pokrzywno is part of Poznań. Before the war, it was a small village that was still outside the city limits. It
After the German attack on the Soviet Union, Stalin was confused for days. He was afraid it was his end. However, he shook himself and gave a radio speech on July 3. Lenin created our state, and we took everything ... - Joseph Stalin was said to have said on June 28, 1941, when he heard about th
The island of Spinalonga (actually Kalidón) is located in the north-eastern part of Crete in the picturesque Bay of Mirabello. Currently, it is one of the greatest attractions of the region, although its fame was actually built on stories of human suffering, rejection and slow death in torment.
This is one of the most embarrassing episodes in the history of Podhale. In the fall of 1939, a delegation of highlanders paid tribute to Hans Frank. Several influential families were behind the collaboration with the Nazis. Shortly after the outbreak of the war, they began to widely propagate the i
Until the last moments, the commanders of the Home Army argued sharply whether to give the order to the uprising in Warsaw. Finally, Col. Antoni Chruściel, pseud. Monter, his greatest supporter, was to see Russian tanks in the vicinity of Warsaw. With this argument he convinced the commandant of Bor
On Sunday, August 13, 1944, shortly after 6 p.m., a monstrous explosion shook the Old Town. About three hundred people died - residents of Warsaw and soldiers. Over a hundred were injured. In national mythology, the tragedy is recorded as the explosion of a trap tank. Meanwhile, it was neither a tan
Soviet cleanup after September 17, 1939 on the so-called Borderlands are rightly associated with deportations to the East and other repressions against Poles. However, on the other hand, Lviv was the only center of Polish science and culture in the territory of the Second Polish Republic. There were
The defensive war of 1939 was full of errors of the command and simple cowardice. To this day, discussions continue on the behavior of Capt. Mar. Wiktor Łomiga, who deprived the largest Polish ship of its main weapon on the first day of the war. At the time of the German attack on Poland, ORP Gr
Today no one can even imagine experiments that require ... scaring children. What if the object was a baby? The boy who went down in the history of psychology as Little Albert was exactly 11 months old - an anonymous orphan from the most famous study of the father of behaviorism, John Watson. Wh
Before his death, 14-year-old Emmett Till was tortured for long hours. The torturers hit him so hard that his face turned into a shapeless, bloody mask. Then he was killed with a single shot to the temple, and the corpse, bound with barbed wire, was thrown into a nearby river. The murder of this bla
It is still unknown what were the reasons for the crash of Liberator with General Sikorski on board. British archives are still unavailable, and numerous theories of the bombing resemble those born after the Presidential Tupolevs crash. One of the most recognizable photos of General Władysław Siko
In November 1918, a pogrom took place in Lviv. Poles started the wave of robbery, arson and murder of Jews. Why? The beginnings of the reborn Polish state were marked not only by political and armed conflicts with neighboring countries over establishing borders, but also by internal unrest. The co
Portrait of Maria Theresa of Austria Skilled politician, intelligent and upright woman in private and public life, Maria Theresa of Habsburg (1717-1780), Empress of Austria, wife of Francis Stephen of Lorraine and a loving mother of as many as 16 children , including Marie Antoinette of Fra
A table without carp. Kutia without honey. And fish ... in Yiddish. In the difficult years of the war, you could not count on twelve Christmas Eve dishes. But our (great) grandmothers were able to create Christmas out of nothing to the truth anyway! The first Christmas dinner under the occupatio
Żigolaks beauty, unimaginable courage, fanaticism, dangerous life - these are the features that always attracted women. So Feliks Dzerzhinsky could not complain about the lack of success with the opposite sex. Before he became the Eternal Flame of Revolution and the red executioner he was ... the gr
If you happen to be deformed, lame and infirm and your main way of life is begging, dont worry - the ancient Greeks already have a job for you. You have all the necessary qualifications to become pharmakoi. Dont get used to it though, because this job will probably kill you. The end justifie