Labour wins the election, Conservative Party decimated in Parliament
After 14 years of opposition the Labour Party will now form a government in the United Kingdom. The parliamentary election left the political stage in Britain with significant changes – reducing the list of Conservative Party MPs to more than half of its number. The clear winner is the Labour party with 412 seats in […]
Robert Lewandowski’s Bundesliga record snubbed by German Football Museum
Following a visit to the Dortmund-based German Football Museum, Polish sports journalist Mateusz Skierawski informed his colleagues back home about an element which drew his attention in the popular exhibition. It turns out that the German Football Museum – which tells the story of German clubs at home and abroad – omitted one of the […]
Guardian: “Brexit made Polish culture more visible”
The British newspaper says that despite low TV coverage the culture of Polish 700,00 strong diaspora in the UK is marking its visible place in film, books and music like never before. One of the examples of such phenomena is Polish-born rapper “Pat”, or Patryk Wójcik. A young Pole emigrated from Silesia in 2007 together […]
Facebook bans writing that the Lviv professor’s massacre was carried out by Germans
By Facebook’s standards, is it illegal to write about German crimes from World War II? On 20 June, our post stating that the Auschwitz camp was founded by Germans was removed. Today, another post has been deleted – this time about Tadeusz Boy Żeleński and the Lviv (Lwów) professors murdered on the night of 3/4 […]
Facebook zakazuje pisania, że mordu lwowskich profesorów dokonali Niemcy
Czy według standardów Facebooka, nie wolno pisać o zbrodniach niemieckich z czasów II wojny światowej? 20 czerwca został usunięty nasz post informujący, że obóz w Auschwitz założyli Niemcy. Dziś został usunięty kolejny post – tym razem o Tadeuszu Boy Żeleńskim i lwowskich profesorach zamordowanych w nocy 3/4 lipca 1941 przez Niemców z oddziału Einsatzkommando zur […]
BBC map claims that Poland took over Russia
During a BBC commentary about Orban’s Hungary policy towards Ukraine, a large screen behind the journalist presented a map on which the territory of the Russian Federation was described as 'Poland’. „Fantastic map courtesy of the BBC,” a slip-up by British television was picked up by a Ukrainian magazine. „Spotted on the BBC. The rise […]
Scholz: “Germany will try to provide support” for Polish WW2 survivors
At a joint conference with Prime Minister Donald Tusk during his visit to Poland, the German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said that Germany is aware of „its great guilt and responsibility for the million victims of the German occupation” and „will try to provide support” to the survivors. However, the details of this support and the […]
77 years after – Poland decided to rebuild Warsaw from rubble
The communist government of Poland considered moving the capital to Łódź and leaving the rubble of Warsaw as proof of German barbarism. The decisive factor in the decision to rebuild Warsaw was the determination and sentiment of those who lived in the pre-war capital and loved it dearly. „This city shall disappear completely from the […]
Polish candidate for NATO deputy secretary fails due to domestic disagreement
Polish news website Onet reached internal correspondence from NATO Headquarters, which proved that Tomasz Szatkowski was on the short list of candidates for the post of deputy secretary general of the alliance while serving as Poland’s ambassador to NATO. The Polish candidate lost his chance when he was dismissed by the Foreign Ministry, with strong […]
Was Father Kolbe hostile towards Jews? Countering lies about Polish hero
The figure of Saint Father Maksymilian Kolbe, a Polish clergyman who lost his life in the German-Nazi death camp in Auschwitz, sacrificing it to a fellow prisoner Franciszek Gajowniczek, was once again widely discussed across Poland. The new directors of the WW2 Museum in Gdańsk decided to remove his picture and story from the permanent […]
