Category Archives: history

You Really Don’t Know Polish History….

Posted on 3 January 2013 by lkonieczny

….if you were “educated” in the government schools of the United States. US history books are devoid of all but the most brief mentions of Poland, yet it is a country that saved Europe several times and at one time … Continue reading →

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Polish History Lesson in 8 minutes

Posted on 31 December 2012 by lkonieczny

Do you really know much about Polish history. If you are like most Americans, the answer is, sadly, “no.” And worse yet, what little you do know is skewed and unbalanced. But the truth of the matter is that Poland … Continue reading →

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Żeby Polska była Polską — Let Poland be Poland

Posted on 30 December 2012 by lkonieczny

Żeby Polska była Polską is a well-known Polish protest song, written in 1976 by Jan Pietrzak with music by Włodzimierz Korcz. It quickly became an informal anthem of the Solidarity era protests in Poland, protesting the totalitarian Communist regime. It … Continue reading →

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Polish Independence Day

Posted on 11 November 2012 by lkonieczny

Today in Poland it is (or rather, was) Polish Independence Day, Narodowe Święto Niepodległości, a national holiday in Poland which celebrates the day in 1918 when Józef Piłsudski assumed military control of Poland. World War I had just ended, but … Continue reading →

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Dzisiaj pamiętam — Today I remember

Posted on 17 September 2012 by lkonieczny

Today I remember the events of September 17, 1939, when the Soviet Army invaded Poland from the east, effectively dooming the Polish plan to stand fast against the Nazi German invasion which began two weeks earlier. Though Poland had hoped … Continue reading →

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US complicity in the coverup of the horror of Katyń?

Posted on 15 September 2012 by lkonieczny

Well, it has finally come out. The US government has declassified thousand of pages of documents, and they indicate the the US was well aware of what the Soviets did in the Katyń forest in 1941: the murder of well … Continue reading →

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Every August 1st…..Warsaw Remembers

Posted on 3 August 2012 by lkonieczny

It happens every year on August 1st. For a minute, all activity stops in Warsaw, Poland, as people remember what began on August 1st, 1944. On August 1st 1944, the people of Warsaw rebelled against their German Nazi occupiers. Though … Continue reading →

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Sad Facts of Polish History

Posted on 26 July 2012 by lkonieczny

It’s a sad fact, but in order to bolster their cause in the war against the Axis during World War II, the Allies–most notably Roosevelt for the US and Churchill for Great Britain–carved up postwar Europe and “sacrificed” Poland by … Continue reading →

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United States — Independence Day — July 4th, 2012

Posted on 4 July 2012 by lkonieczny

Here in the United States, today we are celebrating Independence Day. On July 4, 1776, a group of “rabble-rousers” signed and adopted the Declaration of Indpendence, asserting the indpendence of the 13 American colonies from Britain. That’s when it all … Continue reading →

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Katyń

Posted on 9 May 2012 by lkonieczny

In the spring of 1940, the Soviet Secret Police murdered about 22,000 of Poland’s finest: soldiers and officers, professors, landowners, laywer, officials, priests, and various intelligentsia. Today this is known by the term, the Katyń Massacre. Many of them were … Continue reading →

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