Warsaw, Lest We Forget
During the night of the 20th of November, 700 Home Army soldiers from the district of Zoliborz (named Jolie Bord or Beautiful Embankment by the French monks who bought land …
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A giant, Star of David-shaped hole in the heart
There are two tragedies of the Polish-Jewish relations. The first one is that through the centuries of coexistence with each other we did not make for better neighbours and friends. …
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Polish Governments Gone Wild (Not On Tinder)
So Tinder turned out to be a disappointment, especially for The Daily Chrenk readers who will not get to see the local edition of “Girls Gone Wild on Tinder”, largely …
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Booze, girls and the Polish economic miracle
Poland is a land of mystery. Perhaps the biggest mystery is how the country has somehow managed to survive to the present (albeit far from intact) while being stuck for …
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On the way to Lubenia
With an impeccable timing, The Daily Chrenk will arrive in Warsaw only hours before one of the largest joint Russian-Belorussian military exercises directed against Poland and Lithuania is about to …
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September 1
The war started 78 years ago today, in the darkness of a late summer morning on the Baltic coast, as German navy vessel “Schleswig-Holstein”, supposedly on a friendly visit, fired …
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Trump, the Polish Patriot
In a few short months, Donald Trump has already done more for the security of Poland than Barack Obama did over eight years in office. I’m talking about two decisions: …
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Mr Trump Goes to Warsaw
The eagle has landed, late in the evening and without much fanfare. Greeted on the tarmac of Frederick Chopin International Airport in Warsaw by only a few government officials and …
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The one where Poland became an anti-terrorist meme
Poland is in the news again, by not being in the news. Scan Twitter for the mentions of Poland and you will get a stream of recent tweets, of which …
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Bulldozing the “liberators”
How do we remember the dead? How do we remember the war dead? How do we remember the controversial war dead? In Europe, history is never quite in the past …
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May Day, November Day
It’s May the 1st, and so I can’t help but remember the May Day marches of my Polish childhood; all that sea of red, big portraits of the current and …
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How to win friends and influence people, the Turkish edition
Contrary to the impression you might get from reading The Daily Chrenk, I don’t at all dislike Turkey or the Turkish people. In fact I have a historical soft spot …
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