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Happy 1055th birthday Poland!

April 14, 2021 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

You might have had some rough times recently, but you don’t look a day older than a millennium. On the Holy Saturday, 14 April 966, Poland had officially entered the …

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On discovering a scandal in family history

December 7, 2020 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

One of my great regrets in life is not having interrogated my loved ones about their past and their family histories while they were still alive. Now the generation of …

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When Poland saved Europe

August 10, 2020 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

A hundred years ago this week, a series of biggest battles that Europe were to witness between the end of the First World War in 1918 and the beginning of …

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Who Won World War Two?

May 12, 2020 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

The commemorations and celebrations of the 75th anniversary of the end of the Second World War were mooted this year. No obligatory parades or gathering took place at the time of …

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That time Poland was wearing a short skirt

December 27, 2019 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

The year wouldn’t go past without Vladimir Putin managing to again eschew any role in starting the Second World War and instead blaming Poland for getting invaded: Speaking at a …

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Culture / History

The Man in the High Kolkhoz

December 2, 2019 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

If you have Netflix (no chill necessary), there is a Polish series available, in fact the first Polish Netflix production ever, called “1983”. Yes, there is an element of play …

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Where were you when the walls came crashing down

November 9, 2019 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

It was a Thursday. I couldn’t remember but just checked it, thanks to the magic of the Internet – something that certainly did not exist in its current omnipresent form …

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Which witch is which?

November 1, 2019 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

An interesting Halloween-inspired graphic from “The Economist”* that sheds a lot of light on the history of European witch hunts: The key take-aways in my book: 1) Contrary to the …

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Books / History / Politics

Before there was Trump, there was Joe McCarthy

September 30, 2019 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

I’ve been reading M Stanton Evans’s excellent and scholarly “Blacklisted by History: The Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy and His Fight Against America’s Enemies” (published some 12 years ago) …

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History / Politics

The Fourth Partition

September 17, 2019September 17, 2019 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

It’s 2019, so over the next few years we will commemorate a number of 80th anniversaries connected with the Second World War. British people will be reminded of their darkest …

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History / Politics

Unapologetic

September 2, 2019 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

How long must societies face penance for past sins? Individuals have it easy – there are either statutes of limitation or you die; either way, it’s over. Human societies, on …

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The two “what if”s of September 1939

September 1, 2019 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Eighty years ago, Germany invaded Poland from the west, the north and the south, starting World War Two. Seventeen days later. the Soviet Union invaded from the east, completing the …

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Russia tries to normalise Ribbentrop-Molotov

August 25, 2019 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

The other day the world (mostly Eastern Europe and a few history buffs) remembered to 80th anniversary of the signing in Moscow of the infamous Ribbentrop-Molotov non-aggression pact between the …

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One such day

August 1, 2019 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Seventy-five years ago, late afternoon on 1 August 1944, the biggest single act of resistance in the Nazi occupied Europe commenced in Warsaw. The Uprising was to last two month, …

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Happy 400 years of Solidarity, America!

July 21, 2019 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Aurelia Pucinski, a justice of the Illinois Appellate Court, remembers a little know incident of the early American history, whose anniversary we are celebrating today: Original records of the Jamestown …

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What Trotsky’s granddaughter said

June 12, 2019 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

In one of those cruel strokes of fate, all of Leon Trotsky’s four children predeceased him, even if many would not feel any compassion for one of the fathers of …

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Books / History

Monte Cassino, great-grandfather and a bear

May 15, 2019 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

On May 18, the day Australia goes to the polls, on the other side of the world we will be commemorating the 75th anniversary of the end of the bloodiest …

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White Knight Vs Black Knight: SJWs invade medieval Europe

May 7, 2019 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Once in a while – actually, nowadays, on a daily basis – you read something that actually makes you dumber (hat tip: JK). This is one of these things: Each …

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Anzac Day Repost: Grandfather’s Bridge

April 25, 2019 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Note: I have originally published this long post two and a half ago, and since then it has become one of my and my readers’ favourite TDC stories. I have reposted …

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Was Polish American revolutionary hero a heroine?

April 5, 2019 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Pulaski Day, when the Polish-American community celebrates their Polish-Americaness annually and named after a Polish general who had died at Savannah in 1779, might have to be soon renamed Pulaska …

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