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Red Army infantry deploy against German positions in Stalingrad. Still from the film “Stalingrad” taken from official German and Russian sources. Photo: Getty Images

The “second front” on the eastern front

Every soldier felt the sights of the blocking units trained on him, even if they were not present.  see more
History Wed, 17:22
Queen Elizabeth II's visit to China. It was meeting with Deng Xiaoping. The fact that it was the Chinese leader who came to the Queen was considered unprecedented. Photo Tim Graham Picture Library / Getty Images

Hong Kong fair, or how the Queen appeased the Chinese

Elizabeth II had to erase Margaret Thatcher's disastrous visit to China from public memory.  see more
History Wed, 17:19
2) U.S. Douglas A-20 bombers waiting in the city of Nome, Alaska, for transport to the USSR. Photo: Wikimedia

From Alaska to Siberia. Planes packed with weapons for Uncle Joe

The longest airlift in history started operating 80 years ago.  see more
History Wed, 17:11
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President marks anniversary of Polish Underground State

Andrzej Duda wrote a letter read in public at the anniversary’s ceremony.  see more
History Wed, 12:32
Cartoon commentary published in the British Daily Mirror on 20 September 1939, three days after the USSR invaded Poland. “German murderer” over Poland’s grave says: “It’s OK – he’s already dead!”. “The Russian body-snatcher” (in this context, more like a “grave robber”) replies: “That's why I will rob the corpse without fear!”. Photo Daily Mirror/Mirrorpix/Mirrorpix via Getty Images

The Soviets marched in... Should they be greeted with rifles or cigarettes, when even Churchill explains that they had to?

Trust ended for Polish officers with bullets in the back of their heads.  see more
History 21.09.2022
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‘Complete degeneration’: PM on German occupation during WWII

In his article for a Greek weekly, Mateusz Morawiecki referred to German atrocities committed during WWII.  see more
History 19.09.2022
Polish President Andrzej Duda (L) laid flowers in front of the monument honouring the people Deported to Siberia. Photo: PAP/Jan Dzban

President pays tribute to Poles who died in Russian onslaught in 1939

“Today we pay tribute to all those who were murdered by the Soviets and suffered as a result of the Soviet invasion of Poland 83 years ago,” Andrzej Duda said.  see more
History 17.09.2022
Nazi German and Soviet officers exchanging handshakes in Poland. Photo: Wikimedia Commons

September 17th 1939: Soviets invade Poland

The atrocities Russians did to Ukrainian citizens and Poles during WWII are a cautionary example that Russian imperial ambitions have never gone away.  see more
History 17.09.2022
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Russia collaborated with Nazis in 1939 to divide Europe

The Soviet invasion of Poland on September 17, 1939, was a direct result of the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact signed by the USSR and Nazi Germany.  see more
History 16.09.2022
Minister of Foreign Affairs Józef Beck with his wife Jadwiga in the window of a railway wagon on the platform of the Main Railway Station before leaving for a visit to Romania. Photo: NAC / IKC

Is honor more important than peace?

“I thought I had one hundred divisions behind me but I had a piece of shit” – he said.  see more
History 14.09.2022
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Remembering the largest cavalry charge that saved Europe from the Ottomans

The Battle of Vienna was the largest known cavalry charge in history and arguably inspired parts of J. R. R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings.  see more
History 12.09.2022