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The Night of Martial LawForty-one years ago, the Communist junta brought tanks onto the streets of Poland. Today we are restoring dignity to the victims and sending a clear message to the criminals: you cannot sleep peacefully.
Polish Intelligence and the Road to Ultra, 1925-45The common view that Ultra shaved two years off the war is hard to sustain, but it did save the allies months in time and hundreds of thousands of liv...
Poland is still experiencing the effects of World War IIThe effects of World War II – demographic, economic, infrastructural, scientific, educational and cultural – are felt by Poles until today.
Independence defended“[...] there are no more occupiers. We’re our own masters and hosts,” rejoiced Warsaw politician and columnist Ignacy Baliński in November 1918.
How has the pandemic changed our experience of time?It was only with the COVID-19 pandemic that many of us became aware of this.
History keeps repeating itself. Another Soviet sham referendumRussia’s invasion of Ukraine has been full of painful resonances.
Russian Imperialism at War with Central and Eastern EuropeThe outbreak of the Second World War, which began on 1 September 1939 with the invasion of Poland by the Nazi Third Reich, is one of the events annual...
There can be no consent for commemorating the totalitarian communist regimeThere is no room for symbols marked with the red star in public space in free, independent and democratic Poland, nor in free Europe.
Insolence of Putin’s RussiaThere is no grain of truth in the accusations aimed at Poland that its cooperation with Hitler led to the outbreak of World War II.
The First Democratic Constitution in EuropeRzeczpospolita, so pompously celebrating the centenary of its rebirth last year, has many reasons to be proud.
