On February 4, 1945, a meeting between Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin began at the Livadia Palace on the outskirts of Yalta. Crimea, including the meeting venue, was completely destroyed. Because of this, everything necessary, including furniture, had been brought from Moscow.

“Poles! The hour of vengeance has come. Today die or prevail! Let us go, and let your breasts be Thermopylae for your enemies!”

The date of 11 November 1918, being the day on which Poland regained its independence, is a symbolic date. Exactly on that day, an armistice ending the First World War was concluded in a wagon in the forest of Compiègne.

The end of World War I did not mean the arrival of absolute peace in Europe. On the contrary, – one effect of the Great War was the economic instability seen in numerous countries. For the Entente countries, reparations paid by Germany and the return of loans taken out by Russia during the tsarist

Soviet aggression against Poland, which began on the morning of September the 17th, 1939, came as a surprise for the authorities, the civilian population, the police, the army, and the Border Protection Corps. However, this was only a small taste of what the aggressor had in store for Poles in the c

In 1725, Tsar Peter I sent the Danish sailor Vitus Bering to the far east in order to observe if there was a land connection between Asia and North America. His activity, acting under Russian orders, was associated with St. Petersburg’s growing interest in Alaska. Firstly, the focus was on researc