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History has always been an important element of life in Poland. Share your reflections on Poland's past. (page 8)

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	Poland in WWI 2 38 - Just chucking in an example of the chaos of WW1... Bronisław Malinowski, the famous anthropologist, was doing research in... HistoryAtch - 1 Jul 2016 Trevek - 11 Jul 2016
	60th anniversary of the Poznan uprising! 2 60 - Don't forget he humiliated her directly after the elections that she won for him by floating rumors of a... Historymafketis - 28 Jun 2016 mafketis - 5 Jul 2016
	Interesting memorial about 212 Polish soldiers 18 - Perhaps because the British trained a lot of them in England. They were under the SOE, however they were... Historydtaylor5632 - 13 Oct 2011 Trevek - 5 Jul 2016
	A question regarding Christian/Pagan military alliance in First Millenium Central Europe 17 - Ok, it's 2016 now, I just happened to stumble upon this thread... I believe I migth have an answer... HistoryDes Essientes - 1 Mar 2011 Gielie - 27 Jun 2016
	Polish Air Force 1939-45 8 - I have a friend whose (Polish) dad was in RAF. He has a log book. I'll ask if he... HistoryGuest - 1 Aug 2008 Trevek - 12 Jun 2016
	POLISH IDENTITY-shift from communism to democracy 28 - One of the many reasons that the current regime want to stifle an independent media; basically they want... Historymrpainte - 3 Nov 2010 jon357 - 12 Jun 2016
	Further Reading Online of Kazamierz III? 2 - The King has a headache. But, you can find satisfaction with good quality Polish sausage links. These have a... HistoryCas Milosz - 3 Jun 2016 landofthunder - 11 Jun 2016
	Old Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth Inheritance, Legitimacy, and Nobility. 8 - I somehow doubt it, to be honest... My mum said that according to a family legend her family... HistoryPrzybyslaw - 5 Mar 2016 Paulina - 8 Jun 2016
	13 of December - the anniversary of MARTIAL LAW in Poland 2 48 - Greneda... Yes, it is weird that OT Mr B was apparently a highly charismatic bon-viveur with an alarmingly... Historymiranda - 12 Dec 2007 Dougpol1 - 24 May 2016
	Seeking info on Courland 4 - thank you jon jon this is golden... HistoryCas Milosz - 21 Apr 2016 Cas Milosz - 21 Apr 2016
	Website about Poland's History, would anybody like to contribute? 5 - Poland has had quite a few enemies through the years, Germans, Russians, Ukrainian and Lithuanian nationalists, some Jews (not... HistoryPolandExplorer - 17 Feb 2014 Lwow Eagle - 8 Apr 2016
	Role of Serbian medieval cavalry in formation of Polish hussars 20 - Merged: Danish Bishop of Roskilde Absolon in medieval Polish history We know that Absolon operated in Pomerania... HistoryCrow - 29 Oct 2009 Crow - 23 Mar 2016
	Russian Labor Camps pre-WWII (in the regions of Poland) 7 - Merged: People from Poland interned to Vorkuta during WW2 Is anybody aware of records with names of... HistoryGoszcz - 28 Feb 2012 BobM - 8 Mar 2016
	Role of Poland's PSK (Women's Auxiliary Service) in WWII 4 - Polish women at 2nd Polish Corp in Puglia: Base 316 Transport Company (polish women) was in Palagianello, near Taranto.... Historylneri - 28 Dec 2013 Gianluca - 5 Mar 2016
	Teaching our kids about Poland's History 2 57 - Little something me and friends from Choir decided to play at the end of the Mass because of the... HistoryWlazski - 19 May 2006 goofy - 28 Feb 2016
	Why is the Diary of Saint Sister Faustina Kowalska still unknown to Polonia and other countries? 29 - I've been to Medjugorje, too. At that time (1990s) the town was pretty well developed in the economic sense.... HistoryPol attorney - 15 Feb 2016 Ziemowit - 17 Feb 2016
	Who is this communist Polish man? 3 - Miner uniform perhaps ? Something like this: lubin.pl/files/newsphotos/5860656b4b0439156ab551efeaa66697.jpg... Historyadrienne - 17 Feb 2016 G (undercover) - 17 Feb 2016
	Poland unit in England - can anybody recognize this military uniform? 10 - Hi JGriff, There was a forum member named "Lacznosci" who set up a website that had some... Historyikla - 6 Aug 2013 Ozi Dan - 17 Feb 2016
	"Poland's Concentration Camp" ?? 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 570 - IS please, you evidently have no idea. It takes little or nothing to set the media off on... Historyscorpio - 5 May 2008 jon357 - 16 Feb 2016
	A Polish Town in Turkey. Who Knew? 9 - it is not an active thread in this forum but for those still interested there is a webpage of... Historyjasondmzk - 29 Mar 2013 merogluj1 - 13 Feb 2016
	Religion Of Children From Interfaith Marriages In The Kresy areas of Poland 3 - Thank you for this. Joyce focuses mostly on Roman Catholic and Orthodox relations. She does note that... HistoryLwow Eagle - 31 Jan 2016 Lwow Eagle - 1 Feb 2016
	Why did Russia attack Poland in WW2? 2 3 4 5 6 178 - Merged: Russia is an aggressor again?! youtube.com/watch?v=cHfBIO-alTI... Historypolak123 - 10 Apr 2011 Crnogorac3 - 27 Jan 2016
	Polish martyrology during WW2 - today`s monuments 2 54 - Exactly, well put, my thoughts exactly. Most Polish will agree with you and most of those who know... Historypawian - 14 Oct 2010 Ktos - 25 Jan 2016
	The ethics of buying PRL products. Tax? 4 - pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historia_podatk%C3%B3w_w_Polsce#System_podatkowy_Polski_Ludowej -> some here although it doesn't seem to be clear. Generally in PRL times government owned most of... HistoryTim Bucknall - 4 Feb 2013 G (undercover) - 20 Jan 2016
	Poland's Crowns jewels - what happened to them? 2 - they were robbed and re-smelted by the Prussians in the late 18th century (in the time of partitions of... HistoryBrytyjskiPolak - 12 Jan 2016 gumishu - 12 Jan 2016
	What do Polish think of Gen. Pilsudski? 12 - Merged: Piłsudski-what would you do? Out of all leaders Poland ever had, as most people agree, the greatest... Historyylzmichal - 9 Mar 2013 BrytyjskiPolak - 11 Jan 2016
	Why did Hitler kill so many Jews in Poland? 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 261 - Now or pre-Shoah? Nowadays, just like anyone living anywhere in Europe. Before the war however when the... HistoryWroclaw Boy - 21 Mar 2010 jon357 - 8 Jan 2016
	WWII & LEKAWICA (Łękawica), TARNOW COUNTY, POLAND 2 - You are right, there doesn't seem to be much on the net about it. In this link under XX... Historyszemula - 4 Jan 2016 Chemikiem - 4 Jan 2016
	Rajmund Kaczyński not in PZPR 2 43 - Now, at the time it was the only place in Warsaw that some pre-war intelligencia were living in... HistoryPolonius3 - 29 Dec 2015 Ironside - 30 Dec 2015
	Good books and games about the PRL (Polish People's Republic) 6 - Merged: Kolejka - a fun and absurd boardgame about PRL (Polish People's Republic) Kolejka (Queue) is a lightweight... Historydelphiandomine - 9 Apr 2013 Borsukrates - 17 Dec 2015
	Ordinary Polish people who collaborated with the Communist authorities? 28 - Of course he thinks that, because he doesn't want to admit that he wasn't actually there. ... HistoryBren - 22 Mar 2014 delphiandomine - 14 Dec 2015
	Where was this picture taken? (PZPR congress) 6 - Isn't that the same place they have the Disney on Ice thing? Looks familiar!... Historydelphiandomine - 9 Dec 2015 Polsyr - 9 Dec 2015
	Is there a historical Polish business/company registry? (Szczekociny - early 1900's or late 1800's) 2 - Maybe not much help but the Szczekociny Municipality website has some historic draft of the town and a few... HistoryKMConan - 3 Dec 2015 Looker - 3 Dec 2015
	Massacre of Polish Soldiers at Winniza in WW2? 5 - Just to add that, as noted by Kate Brown in her excellent work about the Kresy "A Biography Of... HistoryOzi Dan - 22 May 2013 Chris R - 23 Nov 2015
	WWII - Battle of Britain and Poles 2 3 4 104 - I'm sorry I can't help with details of your request for info. I can say that both my parents... HistoryDel boy - 14 Jul 2008 Billy9999 - 13 Nov 2015
	Poland's King Jan III Sobieski - the stopper of Turkish Janissaries! 2 3 64 - Wow, such a well produced video just to show a army that slaughter innocent Assyrians, Kurds and Armenians... Historyturkishfriend - 13 Sep 2007 Levi - 12 Nov 2015
	What do nations of the world owe to Poland and Polish people? 2 58 - I am grateful for the winged horseman... Historypawian - 8 Sep 2012 Nazigeorge - 10 Nov 2015
	How come Polonization never works? 2 3 87 - You are justifying genocide, disgusting scum. Because of something that allegedly happened centuries earlier... ? Do you also... Historybigfoot - 28 Oct 2015 G (undercover) - 9 Nov 2015
	What was better in Poland under communism? 2 3 67 - Konrad Kołodziejski writing in Rzeczpospolita reminds us of one advantage of having been in the Soviet bloc that... HistoryPolonius3 - 22 Sep 2010 Polonius3 - 7 Nov 2015
	"I was more afraid of fellow Poles than Nazi German Officers", says Bartoszewski 2 3 4 5 130 - Of course not. Right is a moral/ethical term, social Dawinism is a physical/biological concept which has nothing to... HistoryStu - 2 Mar 2011 Polonius3 - 1 Nov 2015
	Stalin's Holocaust Against Jews And Poles As "Self Defense" 2 36 - Stalin, too, hated Christianity (He was a former seminarian.) and Jews in general. Again, Stalin had useful fools just... HistoryNickidewbear - 27 Sep 2015 Nickidewbear - 1 Oct 2015
	WWII fighting in Breznany, September 19,1939 3 - I couldn't find anything specifically relating to any fighting or a battle, but this article gives a little background... Historyrfrack8610 - 30 Sep 2015 Chemikiem - 30 Sep 2015
	Climate, weather event and Polish history 23 - My central point was that hungry people riot.... HistoryVarsovian - 17 Jan 2011 Varsovian - 30 Sep 2015
	Why did the PRL keep many symbols of Poland's 2nd Republic? 12 - Merged: Art in the PRL (People's Republic of Poland - Socialism Era) Hello, I'm an Australian with... Historydelphiandomine - 3 Oct 2012 Magdalena_M - 23 Sep 2015
	WHAT IS POLAND? (Poem) 12 - Józef Magnuszewski and Jerzy Sliziński both wrote about him, however this predates the online world. On one... HistoryPolonius3 - 14 May 2015 jon357 - 3 Sep 2015
	Boycotts of Solidarity's anniversary celebrations. Poland's Solidarity - Now and Then? 16 - strange? Duirng the 1980 Lenin shipyard strike and signing of the labour accords, visitng foreign journalists and politicians... HistoryPolonius3 - 22 Aug 2010 Polonius3 - 2 Sep 2015
	Restitution Sought by US Holocaust Survivor Family of Expropriated Property in Zywiec, Poland 24 - Acquisitions from permanent foreign collections, typically funded by the government, e.g. the Uffizi Galleries in Florence, the Louvre etc.... HistoryLyzko - 13 Aug 2015 Lyzko - 16 Aug 2015
	Age of Enlightenment in Poland? 2 3 80 - Yes, something else. The First and Second Constitutions of England. The first one was written in 1653 by the... Historynot_polish - 10 Aug 2015 jon357 - 12 Aug 2015
	Heresy of Germanization and/or Anglicanization - The genesis; Polish, Slavic opinion 14 - What can they teach us, apart from how to lose two world wars in the space of 25... HistoryCrow - 28 Jan 2015 delphiandomine - 11 Aug 2015
	Peasantry system in Poland - Did it consisted of three classes? 13 - There was no comparison of Poles to Mongols (what is wrong with being a Mongol, btw?) I said that... Historynot_polish - 10 Aug 2015 not_polish - 11 Aug 2015
	Forgotten great Polish writers 4 - Very interesting writer - so versatile and bright. Polish education is not promoting him, nobody seems to care of... HistoryJonnyM - 6 Jul 2011 Looker - 5 Aug 2015
	Poland PRL era shops in pictures 17 - One thing, in fact the only thing, I did like about Russian restaurants was the tradition of getting up... Historyjon357 - 3 Aug 2015 Roger5 - 4 Aug 2015
	The story about German- Polish reconciliation 2 3 4 5 6 7 194 - All of that's true as well, Delphi! I nonetheless hold firm to my original opinion. As far as Kohl's... Historypawian - 12 Sep 2011 Lyzko - 2 Aug 2015
	History of European and Poland's anti-semitism 2 3 4 5 6 7 192 - I should have been clearer, that happened at a different place but for similar reasons. Feel free to... HistoryPoznan - 28 Oct 2008 Polsyr - 27 Jul 2015
	Looking for information about a village possible name Demrtau 3 - I think there's a spelling error. The German name for the village was Demptau, which was changed to... Historywitneyl - 20 Jul 2015 TheOther - 20 Jul 2015
	Why Is Lipsk nad Biebrzą Called "Lisko Orliscko"? 23 - Merged: Could Lisko Orlisco Actually Be Liškiava? It is "Liszków" in Polish. Maybe it's "Lishkov Orlitsko"? Merged:... HistoryNickidewbear - 2 Mar 2015 Nickidewbear - 18 Jul 2015
	II Polish Corps - Poland's 2nd Motorized Commando Battalion - Photos 3 - Thanks for your quick response! Indeed it is from this battalion. In my search I used already sources... HistoryPanPeter - 15 Jul 2015 PanPeter - 15 Jul 2015
	Foreigners in Poland - 1980-1983 9 - I met an Englishman who's lived in Poland since the mid-1960 without a break. Even sounds Polish now.... Historydelphiandomine - 8 Jul 2015 jon357 - 9 Jul 2015
	The Polans - founders of Kiev and Kievan Rus'. 6 - When you really get down to it, there is little differences between Poles and Ukrainians in terms of genetics.... HistoryVlad1234 - 1 Jun 2015 Jadowniki - 24 Jun 2015
	Location of Radwau (town in Poland) and its church? 14 - Above all, the language of the certificate is most important to pin down the region - I am assuming... HistoryBob46 - 16 Jun 2015 jon357 - 18 Jun 2015

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