Chrenk Youth
As the Millennials the world over seem to be going ga-ga for socialism, there is one country that’s bucking the trend: In Poland, the young generation’s shift to the right …
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Italians betray Germany for the third time
May or may not be a good idea, but Italy invoking the term “axis” in regards to any diplomatic arrangement should arguably be avoided: The most powerful politician in Italy …
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The Daily Chrenk’s Best Proverbs From Around The World, Part 3
Dedicated to my uncle Stanislaw from Lodz, Poland, who is the biggest fan of the series so far. Nevertheless, I hope that all of you will find something insightful and …
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Three Decades Down Under
Thirty years an Aussie. I’m celebrating today, not sure if Australia is. Does that now, in my advanced age, make me two thirds Australian and one third Polish? So twice …
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The nun who saved a Jewish hero
Last week, a 110-year old Dominican nun, Sister Cecilia Roszak, passed away in my home town of Krakow, in the same convent she first walked into almost 90 years before. …
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Happy 100th birthday Poland
My grandmother Irena passed away a few weeks ago, having recently, without much fanfare, turned 100. She was my grandfather’s second wife, after my mother’s mother passed away when my …
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This was my Poland
Make sure to check out this stunning collection of photographs: In the early 1980s, while Gdansk and Warsaw were in the midst of a sociopolitical upheaval of great impact on …
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Dear Resistance, listen to my lived totalitarian experience – you have no effing idea what you’re talking about
In a world that the identity politics has wrought, lived experience is a trump (apologies for the use of a triggering word) card: your viewpoint or opinion on an issue …
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As a 1/512,000th Mongol, I sympathise with Elizabeth Warren
People have been telling stories and myths about their ancestors from the time immemorial; in fact the importance of knowing where you come from has been a universal attribute of …
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Screw Brutalism
“The New York Times” asks the questions no one needs to ask, much less answer: The short answer is “No”, or at least it should be the answer. There is …
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Happy 70,000,058th birthday, the Flintstones!
On September 30, 1960, at 8:30 PM, ABC network aired the first episode of Hanna-Barbera-produced “The Flintstones”. The late broadcast hour was a recognition that initially “The Flintstones” were made …
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Congratulations Poland, you’ve made it!
It’s been a rather rough three centuries for this formerly largest and one of the most powerful countries in Europe. During its golden age, Poland – or the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth …
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Welcome to Fort Trump?
The dream of an US military base in Poland seems one step closer to reality: President Donald Trump said the U.S. is considering a permanent military presence in Poland, something the Eastern European …
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The Polish Enigma
Dermot Turing, the nephew of the famous code breaker and one of the fathers of the computer, Alan (“The Imitation Game”, pretty good movie) writes about a very little known …
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The passing world of 1 September
Today is the 79th anniversary of the start of the Second World War, and as I was pondering on that date, I realised that with one exception, there is no …
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Krakow beats Amsterdam in Brit tourism stakes
This is, or isn’t, good news for Poland’s historical capital: The Polish city of Krakow has been named as the favourite destination for a short-haul city break for Brits by …
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English-language Exclusive: Vienna rejects King John III’s statue as anti-Turkish
Add this to the annals of European dhimmitude and spinelessness: Polish media is reporting that the city of Vienna has rejected the Polish gift of a statue of King Jan III Sobieski, …
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Ramsey Bolton becomes a Polish pilot
For the sake of the movie I hope that Iwan Rheon who played the arch-bastard (literally and metaphorically) Ramsey Bolton in “Game of Thrones” is good enough actor to go …
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VB – Poland makes it literally possible
For non-Australians readers and/or non-beer drinkers, VB, or Victoria Bitter is/was one of the major brands of beer produced and sold in Australia, which its many detractors have rather rudely re-christened …
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