Grey was what I expected when I first visited the Polish ... culture and science, a cross between New York’s Dakota building and Moscow’s “Seven Sisters” towers. This unwanted gift from ...
Many only did so because they were taken prisoner by Stalin's troops and sent to Siberia ... "I call what is happening in the Polish culture of remembrance a 'Polonization of the Holocaust.' ...
The extermination of Jews by Nazi Germany during World War II took place largely in occupied Poland. But for many Poles, ...
Britain's head of state King Charles III will attend a ceremony in Poland marking the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, Buckingham Palace said Monday, in his first visit to the ...
Stalony-Dobrzański, 1938, photo: Culture ... Polish Graphic Designers of the 20th Century’, published by the Adam Mickiewicz Instit The poster depicts the sights of Warsaw’s Saxon Garden: its ...
The story of Polish royal regalia is a tale of lost treasure. The most valuable items of this kind were stolen toward the end of the 18th century and later destroyed, giving rise to myths about their ...
Instead of winning another bloodless conquest in Poland ... apartment in the former palace of the Tsar’s Georgian viceroy. Novelist Maxim Gorky was a good friend of Stalin, but perhaps his ...
Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill was born at Blenheim Palace, the seat of his grandfather ... history of the Second World War. In Joseph Stalin's Soviet Union, Churchill also spotted a new ...
After armed crowds stormed the royal palace in 1792 and overthrew ... And finally, after the Russian Civil War, Stalin’s terror, the Gulag, the Chinese Cultural Revolution and the Cambodian ...
Washington was doubtless full of quarrels, resignations, palace intrigues ... Some say he was disastrously wrong about Stalin and his intentions and the nature of the Soviet state; others ...