by Patrycja | Jun 9, 2025 | Journeys into the Past
Dariusz Węgrzyn In 1944-1945, a total of approximately 35,000 Poles were repressed in the entire eastern territories taken from the Second Polish Republic. These figures are highly approximate and there are also estimates of 10,000 more. Given the lack of detailed...
by Patrycja | May 26, 2025 | Journeys into the Past
Rajmund Fekete When the Red Army entered Hungary in August 1944, no one expected it to remain there for long. And yet. The Soviet soldiers finally left the country in 1991, almost half a century later. For many, for those persecuted by the Nazis, the Russian soldier...
by Patrycja | May 19, 2025 | Journeys into the Past
Boyan Zhekov In late August 1944, the 3th Ukrainian Front (UF) of the Workers’ and Peasants’ Red Army (WPRA) commenced its concentration on the Romanian-Bulgarian border. By this time, the preparation for the Soviet invasion in the Tsardom of Bulgaria had already...
by Patrycja | May 14, 2025 | Podcasts
Krzysztof Renik in a conversation conducted in the early 1990s with Fr Ignacy Pawlus, a Salvatorian who was one of the first Polish priests to carry out pastoral work in Irkutsk, but also in towns and villages tens or even hundreds of kilometres away from Irkutsk. He...
by Patrycja | May 12, 2025 | Journeys into the Past
Barbara Stelzl-Marx “Peace is not always peace. Was peace in 1945 really peace if half of Europe was divided? It was an interval. Peace was always an interval before a new war broke out.” These words come from Ukrainian writer Tanja Maljartschuk,...
