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1983
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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Politics

Terrorist, criminal and a Pole with a whale

November 30, 2019 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

The story of the terrorist attack on the London Bridge, in which two people were stabbed to death and ten injured before the perpetrator was shot dead by the police …

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Politics

Poland to go nuclear

November 20, 2019 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

There was a real risk of that happening between 1945 and 1989 and not in a good way, but in the 21st century it’s all “atoms for peace”: After at …

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WTF

Polish Jesus starts transmitting internet

November 11, 2019 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Happy 101st birthday to modern Poland, which regained its independence (briefly) as a result of World War One, after over a century of being partitioned and colonised by Russia, Prussia …

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History / Politics

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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Lifestyle / Travel

Shout out to Krakow the number 1

November 3, 2019 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

A small survey, but it shows a consistent result: Members of leading British consumer association Which? have chosen Kraków as Europe’s best city break destination for the third year in …

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History

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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Politics

PiS pisses off progs as Poles go to the polls

October 14, 2019 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

The 12 things to note about Sunday’s parliamentary election in Poland: 1. It’s status quo, with the populist/nationalist/conservative PiS (Prawo i Sprawiedliwosc, or Law and Justice) government getting reelected. 2. …

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polandisrael
Politics

Fake news – not just an American problem

September 28, 2019 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Earlier this week, Conservative Polish President, Andrzej Duda, took time during his visit to the United Nations to meet with a group of Jewish leaders – resulting in a story titled …

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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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Politics

Arabs beat Jews in Poland, Poland gets the blame

September 9, 2019 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

An ugly incident in Warsaw: Several Israelis were brutally assaulted in Poland after the assailants asked where they were from, the brother of one of the victims alleged on Sunday. …

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Politics

“Stone cold loser” uses WW2 commemorations to preach against Brexit

September 3, 2019 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

I guess we shouldn’t be surprised – you send a B-grader to represent a country at an international event, you get a B-grade display. Here are the excerpts from the …

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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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1939
History

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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History / Politics

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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warsaw
History

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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History

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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WTF

Happy birthday to a broken escalator

July 8, 2019 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Probably not as funny as residents of Toronto creating an impromptu roadside shrine to a dead raccoon, whom the city council workers have not cleaned up for 12 hours, but in …

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Politics

Who’s afraid of the big bad tank?

July 5, 2019July 5, 2019 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Donald Trump has brought tanks into Washington DC for the 4th of July celebrations and people are going nuts. None nuttier than a Harvard academic and a former Clinton man, …

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Politics

As one of those Ellis Island families, dear Alexandria…

June 30, 2019 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AKA Occasional Cortex, She Guevara, Chiquita Khrushchev) really does embody all the worst characteristics of the Millennials without any of the generation’s redeeming qualities, as if in some …

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