As an instrument of political power, disinformation is as old as mankind but it has reached a different stage with the evolution of digital media and the intensification of global exchange. Infamous examples include the denial of historical events such as the Holocaust, the Gulag system, or the secret protocol of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, as…
Writer and broadcaster, Clare Mulley, joins the Costa Prize award–winning author and journalist Jack Fairweather, to discuss the story of Witold Pilecki, a Polish cavalry officer and resistance leader during the Second World War. Pilecki was an amazing character whose life we should all know more about; a man who willingly volunteered to be imprisoned…
On May 3, 1791, King Stanislaus Augustus Poniatowski of Poland together with the representatives of the Polish people promulgated a constitution that in its preamble read: “desiring to take advantage of the season in which Europe finds itself and of this dying moment that has restored us to ourselves, free of the ignominious dictates of…
A Zoom event in conjunction with English Heritage on the 80th anniversary of the first mission of the Cichociemni, the elite Polish commandos who trained in Britain to lead the resistance against the Germans in occupied Poland. The Cichociemni, or the Silent Unseen, were elite special-operations paratroopers trained in the UK to carry out covert…
From the Belarusian People’s Republic to Riga The notion of independent Belarus in the period 1918-1921, ONLINE DEBATE Participants: Dr Alaksandr Smalańczuk Institute of Slavic Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences Kamil Kłysiński Centre for Eastern Studies Prof. Marek Kornat Institute of History, Polish Academy of Sciences Moderation: Dr Łukasz Jasina, Polish Institute of International Affairs…
Do Western European nations remember the war the same way East-Central Europeans do? Who shapes the imagery related to WWII events: historians or mass culture creative artists? Answers to these and other questions will be sought already this coming Friday 8 May by the participants of the conference titled Burden of Victory: The Second World…
