Everyday life in the Sarmatian Commonwealth was full of paradoxes. The enormous extravagance was accompanied by greed, the splendor of the manors with the conflagration of the war. A nobleman could sit on the throne or be fooled by a woman. In the 17th century, nothing was obvious in Poland. As
I saw a lot of scattered crossbones, a pair of skulls and unbitten hands with bloody fingers - described the terrified hero of Daniel Defoes book, a shipwrecked man lost on an exotic island. He realized that he could come face to face with a savage horde hungry for human flesh. But he did not expect
At the beginning of the occupation, it was enough for the average blackmailer to blackmail one Jew to live like a king for a month! The Jews, on the other hand, paid any amount just to postpone the death sentence. As long as they had what. Theoretically, people of Jewish nationality had a chance
For years, in Adolfs cold eyes, no one saw the prophecy of the crematorium furnaces. Can a peace painter become a mad murderer of nations? Many have deluded it was impossible. But not Poles! We bit Hitler much earlier than the rest of the world. No, Schicklgruber (Hitlers grandmothers name - a
Torture, concentration camps, executions, burning alive - that was the price of humanity in German-occupied Poland. How many Poles were murdered for helping Jewish neighbors? German reports from occupied Poland quickly began to emphasize that anti-Semitic propaganda was not a sufficient means of
One smart man convinced all of Poland that sugar is a medicine for everything. And he made good money on it! “Poland seen from the window of the wagon is a very picturesque country,” thought a Frenchman who traveled around Poland by train in the early 1930s. - “Railway station buildings very neat
There was a time when Berlin was in Poland, Stockholm was conquered by a handful of our own, and Slovakia defended the Polish monarchy. In addition, we had warm Caribbean beaches, power over Moscow and the Germans ... ready to die for Poland. Read for yourself how Europe trembled at the Polish Empir
We tell ourselves that there is nothing more Polish than freedom of speech. Its a beautiful myth and nothing else. The tradition of freedom of expression is zero in Poland. Censorship in our country has as long a history as printing. King Zygmunt the Old - otherwise known as a patron of culture
Great soldiers, talented people. Their death was a great loss for the Republic of Poland. It would be detrimental to nominate them for the Darwin Prize, as it is awarded for purging the genetic pool of idiots, but ... well, but. Prince Michał Zasławski, or never fall asleep with your gun loaded
Opposition activists did not know the day or time. Their children and relatives could not feel safe. Even those in power, if they stepped on the footprint of the wrong people, regretted it bitterly. The Peoples Republic of Poland was able to take revenge, often in the final way ... Read about crimes
At a low cost, he mixed the ranks of the tsarist bureaucrats, but took exorbitant sums from the newspapers. He made political mistakes, and his greatest success was ... inaction. For many he was a hero, but there were also people who considered him a coward. Marshal Józef Piłsudski is definitely a f
Two high floors, even several rooms and three hundred and eighty square meters of space. Were it not for the daylight problems typical of a mansion of this era, even todays millionaires would not despise such a home. It is very possible that this architectural miracle was built when the old gods sti
He was a sadistic psychopath and a mass murderer. Polish historians prefer to remain silent about him. Wrong. Only through the prism of his character can we understand what was going on in the head of our first duchess:Dobrawa Przemyślidka. Bolesław I the Cruel seized power in Bohemia in 935, ev
Each textbook will tell you that in the times of Mieszko I the entire eastern part of Pomerania belonged to Poland. The prince built a huge trade center in Gdańsk, through which a rapid stream of silver flowed to the center of the state. Archaeologist Sławomir Wadyl questions this vision. In his opi
Polish communists not only murdered Witold Pilecki, but also condemned him to eternal oblivion. They turned out to be very effective in blurring the memory after him. Years later, even the censors did not know who the captain was. And they allowed a series of articles praising the deeds of this enem
The genius of evil Blofeld came from Gdynia. Moreover, this opponent of Agent 007 from the books of Ian Fleming might have had a surprising historical prototype. Did the writer hear about him from the Polish superagent Krystyna Skarbek? The title secret organization that Bond has to deal with in
As a child, he unlocked the locks on doors, and then he dreamed of building the Panama Canal. He was close to becoming an engineer, but a pianist. In the end, he achieved his goal and became a master of bridge design that changed the face of America. And he never forgot that he was Polish! When
Historians have written for years about the Polish spy outpost in Soviet Ukraine and its many successes. As it turns out, this branch ... did not exist at all. In turn, the conspiratorial network associated with it was probably a provocation of hostile services. 1927. A Ukrainian, Mykola Chebota
72 years after the liquidation of the Sobibór camp, the number of its victims remains the subject of disputes among scientists. Most often it is said about 250 to 300 thousand. murdered Jews. Meanwhile, the latest research shows that there were almost half as many of them! We owe the new estimat
The flight of sportsmen from communist countries to the West was a problem common to all demoludes. This, of course, also applied to Polish footballers. Thanks to Sebastian Pilarskis research, we learned the scale of this phenomenon among Ekstraklasa players. The first footballer who decided to
The new gunpowder had characteristics that made it revolutionary compared to common gunpowder. It seemed obvious that it would be a clear competitive advantage for the army that used it first. José Roura He was born in Sant Feliu de Guíxols in 1797. He received his doctorate in science from the Facu
We could be talking about the novel Journey to the Center of the Earth of the writer Jules Verne, but no. This time we are not talking about science fiction, but about reality. A reality that surpasses the fiction of the French visionary, an expedition from the United States to the center of the Ear
The promising career of the young Thomas Beddoes -graduated in Medicine and Chemistry, enthusiastic botanist, able to translate texts in Latin and Greek, speak English, French, German, Italian or Spanish, and even become an expert in Vedic and Brahmanical texts from India-, was cut short partly beca
And I am not talking about war reporters or journalism subjected to dictatorships, but in times of peace and under a democratic government, although Winston Churchill already said:«democracy is the worst system of government, except for all the other that have been invented «. After the restoration