For a country with "so much history", it feels to me that communism really drained the life out of Poland. If you asked people in the UK for 10 things they associate with Poland, what could they possibly say? Whereas the same question for Italy, Greece, Spain, France, there are endless things that will come to mind.
My favorite episode from Polish military history is the encounter between ORP Piorun and Bismarck. Cap. Eugeniusz Pławski was the sort of man you want leading you against Russians.
“in 1667 Brandenburg and Sweden had agreed to go to war ‘in defence of Polish freedoms’, that is to stop Poles abolishing the veto. “ At that time the veto had only been used once, years before, in Polish history according to this article.
For a country with "so much history", it feels to me that communism really drained the life out of Poland. If you asked people in the UK for 10 things they associate with Poland, what could they possibly say? Whereas the same question for Italy, Greece, Spain, France, there are endless things that will come to mind.
My favorite episode from Polish military history is the encounter between ORP Piorun and Bismarck. Cap. Eugeniusz Pławski was the sort of man you want leading you against Russians.
“in 1667 Brandenburg and Sweden had agreed to go to war ‘in defence of Polish freedoms’, that is to stop Poles abolishing the veto. “ At that time the veto had only been used once, years before, in Polish history according to this article.