The nightmare of World War II left a terrible mark on Poland. Massive crimes by the Germans and the Soviets claimed millions of lives. After 1945, however, the Poles also committed acts that many do not want to remember today. It is this painful episode in our history that Marek Łuszczyna reminds us
Francisco Goya captured his critical vision of his education in his time in a small painting (20 x 38 centimeters) called The letter with blood enters or School Scene . An education that Goya, who felt great devotion to children, judges defective and that he illustrates in a school scene in which
The abolition of the death penalty in France on September 18, 1981 is the culmination of a long process that began at the beginning of the 20th century. Until the 1980s, the debate on capital punishment had been periodically revived in France, the last European nation to maintain it. Abolition being
The Battle of Villalar was not a great battle, but the War of the Comuneros was of great importance as it was the last revolution of the late Middle Ages or the first modern revolution. After the death of Fernando el Católico and the regency of Cardinal Cisneros, Carlos I, grandson of Fernando, a