Putin poszedł w ślady Stalina. Rozpoznał rosyjską baśniową przestrzeń, zrozumiał, że ma ona konkretnych wrogów i zaczął gromadzić rosyjskie ziemie utracone po rozpadzie ZSRR. Wielu zachodnich polityków i dziennikarzy sądzi,…
Like all of Alexievich’s works, Chernobyl Prayer is based on documentary interviews with eyewitnesses – in this case survivors of a cataclysm that saw 50m curies of radiation dumped into…
Events in Crimea and Donbas have exposed the supportive role of Russian non-state actors in fomenting conflict. Source: Agents of the Russian World: Proxy Groups in the Contested Neighbourhood
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Hungarians and Poles must be reminded that Russian President Vladimir Putin is actively attempting to divide and weaken the EU and NATO. If Europe is to face down aggression from…
Roger Cohen in the NYT: A district of Brussels had in effect seceded from Belgium. Europe must fight an ideological battle against Wahhabi Islam. …There is a vacuum. Vacuums are…
The crux of Europe’s quandary in fighting global terrorism mirrors its problems with a common currency: a reluctance to sacrifice even more sovereignty on the altar of EU unity. Source:…
Photographer Michal Iwanowski on his personal pilgrimage to Poland Source: Footsteps of history: I walked 2200km to retrace my grandfather’s WWII escape from a Russian gulag — The Calvert Journal
Michal Iwanowski documented the journey which his grandfather Tolek and great uncle Wiktor had endured some 70 years earlier Source: Man’s 1,300-mile escape from POW camp retraced by grandson
“In my opinion, all women are idiots. It may strike you as ironic, but I’m absolutely sure that women are stupider than men.” Those words weren’t spoken by a Communist-era…