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FeaturedFeatured article count: 19
Up to my new standards: 7 OK
Need updating: 11 Need updating
Major (I wrote most of the article): 14
  1. OKMax Weber Nov'04 41kb
  2. Need updatingPolish-Lithuanian Commonwealth Dec'04 43kb
  3. OKWitold Pilecki Dec'04 25kb
  4. OKBattle of Warsaw (1920) Jan'05 25kb
  5. Need updatingStanisław Koniecpolski Feb'05 25kb
  6. Need updatingWładysław Sikorski Mar'05 37kb
  7. OKPolish-Soviet War Apr'05 47kb
  8. Need updatingMay Constitution of Poland Apr'05 30kb
  9. Need updatingPolish September Campaign May'05 49kb
  10. Need updatingSociocultural evolution Aug'05 57kb
  11. OKHistory of Poland (1945-1989) Jul'05 / Revised: Apr'07 75kb
  12. Need updatingPolish-Muscovite War (1605-1618) Nov'05 46kb
  13. OKKatyń massacre Jan'06 50kb
  14. OKHistory of Solidarity - Dec'06 60kb
Minor (I wrote less than half): 5
  1. Need updatingWarsaw Uprising Aug'04 30kb
  2. Need updatingBlitzkrieg May'05 35kb
  3. Need updatingVirtuti Militari Jul'05 38kb
  4. Need updatingHistory of the Jews in Poland Nov'05 60kb
  5. OKWarsaw Uprising (1794) Aug'06
My current work
FACandidatesFeatured article candidate
A-class
  1. Józef Piłsudski
  2. Soviet invasion of Poland (1939)
GArticlesGood article
  1. Armia Krajowa
  2. Kiev Offensive (1920)
  3. Technological singularity
GACandidatesGood article candidate
Peer ReviewPeer review
B-class
  1. Anthony Giddens
  2. Edward Rydz-Śmigły
  3. History of Poland (1569-1795)
  4. Magnate wars in Moldavia
  5. Poznań 1956 protests
  6. Revolution
  7. Sociology
  8. Szlachta
  9. Władysław IV Vasa
Start-class
  1. Erving Goffman
  2. History of democracy
  3. Sarmatism
  4. Serfdom
Stub-class
  1. Golden Liberty
  2. Historical demography
  3. Sybiraks
To translate:
  1. pl:Składy rządów polskich to Former Polish governments and their composition
  2. pl:Szopki krakowskie to Kraków szopka
  3. pl:Stosunki polsko-litewskie to Polish-Lithuanian relations
  4. pl:Józef Franczak to Józef Franczak
  5. pl:Kabaret TEY to Kabaret TEY
  6. to Czechoslovak Legion (now different topic)
  7. pl:Matysiakowie and #pl:W Jezioranach to Matyskiakowie and W Jezioranach, respectivly
  8. pl:Fabryka Broni Łucznik to Łucznik Arms Factory
  9. pl:Stefan Frankowski to Stefan Frankowski
  10. Battle of Murowana Oszmianka from /
  11. pl:Umowa o zamianie granic (1951) to Polish-Soviet border adjustment treaty
  12. pl:Bunt Żeligowskiego to Żeligowski's Rebellion
  13. pl:Amnestia dla obywateli polskich w ZSRR to Amnesty for Polish citizens in USSR
  14. pl:Międzynarodowe Targi Katowickie to Katowice International Fair
  15. pl:Jak rozpętałem drugą wojnę światową to Jak rozpętałem drugą wojnę światową
  16. pl:Podział administracyjny Królestwa Polskiego 1837-1914 to Administrative division of Kingdom of Poland (1837-1914)
  17. Plan Zachód from and
  18. pl:Proces brzeski to Brest trial
  19. pl:Staropolski Okręg Przemysłowy to Staropolski Okręg Przemysłowy
  20. pl:Księstwo Siewierskie to Duchy of Siewierz
  21. pl:Ziemia chełmska to Chełm land
  22. pl:Ziemia lęborsko-bytowska to Lębork-Bytkowo land
  23. pl:Księstwo Oświęcimskie to Duchy of Oświęcim
  24. pl:Księstwo Zatorskie to Duchy of Zator
  25. pl:Sejm konwokacyjny (1764) to Convocation Sejm (1764)
  26. pl:Zbrodnia komunistyczna to Communist crime
  27. Sikorski's Confederation aka London Pact to Międzymorze
  28. Missing 'Artykuły na Medal'
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Picture of the day Nigeen Lake Nigeen Lake is a mildly eutrophic lake located in Srinagar, in Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir. It is sometimes considered to be a part of Dal Lake and is connected to it via a narrow strait. This panoramic photograph shows the west bank of Nigeen Lake, with houseboats lining the shore. Hari Parbat, a hill overlooking Srinagar, is visible to the left of centre, and the snow-capped Pir Panjal Range can be seen in the distance.Photograph credit: KennyOMG; edited by UnpetitproleX ArchiveMore featured pictures...
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I, Smoddy do hereby, and with all due and deserved ceremony, award you, Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus a barnstar for your excellent and unending work creating and critiquing featured article candidates. It is hugely appreciated. Thank you. 16:53, 28 March 2005 For your great work on articles related to Poland, I give you the Barnstar of National Merit. Congrats. Zscout370 (Sound Off) 20:17, 15 July 2005 (UTC) For your work on getting many Polish articles promoted to Featured Article Status, and for helping getting some of my articles Featured, I present you the The Featured Article Medal. Congrats. Zscout370 (Sound Off) 20:17, 15 July 2005 (UTC) For your countless contributions to Misplaced Pages, I, Appleseed, present you with the Tireless Contributor Barnstar. Your work is very, very much appreciated! 13:17, 31 January 2006 For your particularly fine History-related contributions concerning the Polish-Soviet War I present to you this Epic Barnstar award.Rosa 05:49, 16 April 2006 (UTC) For an almost intimidating amount of useful information, I present you with this Excellent User Page Award. –Frater5 (talk/con) 16:56, 29 May 2006 (UTC) In honour of your endless contributions to DYK. Much appreciated. User:Blnguyen | BLabberiNg 05:50, 16 October 2006 (UTC) The Tireless Contributor Barnstar. Just Because. evrik 21:10, 23 June 2006 (UTC)) 16:56, 29 May 2006 (UTC) You surely deserve this one. //Halibutt 15:00, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
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Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus (born in Katowice, 1980) - Short story: I am a geek, otaku, a net freelancer, Mensa member, Singularitarian, Magister Artium in economics (Akademia Ekonomiczna w Krakowie since April'04 (Top 10 in my year), one of Top 100 (or Top 0.1%) of most active Wikipedians. 63 to be exact (as of Feb'06). Registered on Wiki on 10 Apr 2004 but I have been editing since December 2003 as an anon. On 26 January'05 I was elected to the position of a Misplaced Pages administrator. Oh yes, I am a Pole so read on how to deal with Poles! :>

I love sharing my knowledge and the idea of telecommuting, so Wiki is a 'home quite close to home' for me, also illustrating the truth in saying if you find work you like, you will never work again. Working on Wiki gives me this great feeling of doing something good and useful *now* - anybody can access my work anytime the will, there are no delays in article publications, no restriction on who has enough money to pay for my work (hmmm, I can see a problem with this in the long run though... :>). I have now seen Misplaced Pages grow for years, and it is amazing. I am sure that in the near future Wiki will rival Google as the best tool on the web. And, of course, if it is, it should be on Wiki.

My interests concentrate around history (including counterfactual history), political sciences, communication, technological singularity, sociology, economics and finally, as a perhaps bit more trivial hobby, all things related to good science fiction. Oh, and games. I am a founding member of the Polish Ludology Association, after all :)

In August '05 I begun studying for PhD at University of Pittsburgh, Department of Sociology, looking at the impact of changes in communication technology on evolution of political systems. After all, history of democracy has been my top interest for the past - oh, 5 years now. I will likely do some historical research as well, regarding Golden Freedoms of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and its impact on development of democracy worldwide. And I also want to look at the social institution of hobby shops. But currently it appears that my specific focus will be - ta - dumm! - Misplaced Pages, as I am becoming more and more fascinated by the often asked question: 'how does this thing work?!' :) On a related note, I am also working on using Misplaced Pages as a teaching tool.

If for some bizarre reason you need to now more about me, just ask me.

  1. Why Prokonsul? Because of this poem. And Piotrus is a latinization, not a diminutive.

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Josette Simon (born 1959 or 1960) is a British actor. She trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London and played the part of Dayna Mellanby in the third and fourth series of the science-fiction television series Blake's 7 from 1980 to 1981. She was the first black woman in a Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) play when she appeared in Salvation Now in 1982, and has been at the forefront of colour-blind casting, playing roles traditionally taken by white actors, including Maggie, a character who is thought to be based on Marilyn Monroe, in Arthur Miller's After the Fall in 1990. Simon's first leading role at the RSC, the first principal part filled by a black woman for the company, was as Rosaline, in Love's Labour's Lost in 1984. Simon has won the Evening Standard's Best Actress award, a Critics' Circle Theatre Award, Plays and Players Critic Awards, and two film festival awards. She was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 2000 for services to drama. (Full article...)

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Some interesting articles which I created or significantly contributed to. Did you know...

  1. ...that Józef Olszyna-Wilczyński, a high-ranking commander of the Polish Army, a veteran of World War I, Polish-Ukrainian War and the Polish-Soviet War, was executed by the Soviets during the Polish Defensive War of 1939?
  2. ...that the main languages of Renaissance in Poland were Polish and Latin, and that the leading Polish poet of that period, Jan Kochanowski, is regarded as a great Slavic poet?
  3. ...that in the Battle of Gdynia during the Polish September Campaign, the German armed forces captured Gdynia, an important port and industrial center of the Second Polish Republic?
  4. ... that French-born artist Jan Piotr Norblin is famous in Poland for illustrating many important historical moments of the last years of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, and is considered one of the most important painters of the Polish Enlightenment
  5. ...that during the Battle of Hel, one of the longest battles in the 1939 Polish September Campaign, Polish forces temporarily separated the peninsula from the mainland, forming an island?
  6. ...that the Merton Thesis claims that Protestant religion had significant influence on the course of the scientific revolution?
  7. ...that firing of Anna Walentynowicz, a Polish free trade union activist, was one of the events that led to the giant wave of strikes in Poland and eventually the creation of Solidarity?
  8. ...that throughout the development of science, many ideas have been obliterated by incorporation?
  9. ...that in the aftermath of the Defence of the Polish Post in Danzig, in the Polish September Campaign of 1939, all the Polish civilians who had held out for 15 hours against the SS-led assault were executed?
  10. ...that in the Polish legislative election, 1947, the communist-controlled Polish government, advised by specialists from Soviet Ministry for State Security, ensured its victory by vote rigging?
  11. ...that Wojciech Bartosz Głowacki, a peasant, became a Polish national hero after he captured a Russian cannon with his hat during the Battle of Racławice?
  12. ...that A Perfect Vacuum, a 1971 book by Polish author Stanisław Lem, is an anthology of imaginary reviews of nonexistent books?
  13. ...that Jakub Uchański, a 16th-century primate of Poland and interrex, was suspected of heresy by the Pope?
  14. ...that the 1635 Treaty of Sztumska Wieś between the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and Sweden was of much interest to contemporary European diplomacy?
  15. ...that a 17th century Polish politician Mikołaj Sienicki held the office of marshal of the Sejm recordary nine times and was called a 'Polish Demosthenes' for his oratory skills?
  16. ...that manifest and latent functions and dysfunctions are sociological concepts for understanding the hidden reasons for actions and customs?
  17. ...that in the Bezdany train robbery of 1908, led by the future Polish dictator, Józef Piłsudski, the revolutionaries stole over 200,000 rubles?
  18. ...that Stanisław Warszycki, a wealthy 17th-century Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth magnate, gave rise to many legends about his cruelty, and several places in Poland claim sightings of his ghost?
  19. ...that Henryk Zieliński, a modern Polish historian who studied in the underground university in his youth, died in mysterious circumstances?
  20. ..that in the 1930 Polish election, due to government censorship, opposition papers were reduced to using images of Nietzsche, because he resembled dictator Józef Piłsudski?
  21. ...that Aleksander Krzyżanowski , commander of Polish resistance in the Vilnius region, was arrested by the Soviets after his unit helped them liberate Vilnius from the Germans?
  22. ...that science fiction and fantasy in Poland traces its origins to the Polish Enlightenment, and that many Polish science fiction and fantasy writers are translated into foreign languages - with the notable exception of the English language?
  23. ...that Henryk Woliński, Polish resistance Armia Krajowa member, was responsible for the creation of Żegota and saving the lives of thousands of Polish Jews in WWII?
  24. ...that Aleksandra Piłsudska, a Polish revolutionary and second wife of dictator Józef Piłsudski, helped plan the Bezdany train raid?
  25. ...that Union for Active Struggle was a secret paramilitary organization dedicated to reclaiming Polish independence, with support by Austria-Hungary against the Russian Empire?
  26. ...that Franciszek Ksawery Drucki-Lubecki, creator of the National Bank of Poland and author of many economic reforms in Congress Poland, has also laid foundations for the industrialization of the city of Łódź?
  27. ...that the Constitution of the People's Republic of Poland abolished the office of the President of Poland, replacing it with the State Council of Poland?
  28. ...that His Master's Voice, one of the most acclaimed science-fiction novels of Stanisław Lem, is also one of Lem's strongest critiques of the science-fiction genre itself?
  29. ...that Henryk Iwański, member of Armia Krajowa Polish resistance in WWII, commanded several incursions into the Warsaw Ghetto in support of the Warsaw Ghetto fighters?
  30. ...that student development theories are tools used by scholars and teachers in understanding how students gain knowledge?
  31. ...that parasocial interaction is a one-sided social relationship between the audience and the performers?
  32. ...that Perfect Imperfection, a 2004 science fiction novel by Polish writer Jacek Dukaj, raises the issues of technological singularity, transhumanism and the anthropic principle, and presents a unique model of human evolution?
  33. ...that Józef Kossakowski, bishop and writer, was one of several prominent Polish politicians sentenced to hanging as traitors in the aftermath of the Warsaw Uprising?
  34. ...that the Grodno Sejm of 1793, last Sejm of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, passed the Second Partition of Poland with deputies bribed or coerced by the Russian Empire's army?
  35. ...that the Worek Plan, a submarine operation by the Polish Navy in the early days of the Polish September Campaign, was a failure as the submarines did not manage to sink a single German vessel?
  36. ...that Piotr Włostowic, a 12th century voivode of the Kingdom of Poland, managed to break the alliance between Władysław II the Exile and Rus' princes while blinded, muted and exiled?
  37. ...that in the Battle of Węgierska Górka, one of the first battles of the Second World War, four unfinished and undermanned Polish bunkers held out against an assault of an entire German division for two days and two nights?
  38. ...that Other Songs, an award winning novel by Jacek Dukaj, a Polish science fiction writer, describes a unique world in which the ideas of Aristotle and Hegel replace the laws of physics?
  39. ...that although the Polish-Romanian Alliance, an important alliance of the 1920s, was still in force when the Second World War began, it had little impact on the German invasion of Poland in 1939?
  40. ...that although the last game in the Battle Isle series was released in 2001, there is an open source project, Advanced Strategic Command, to recreate the series?
  41. ...that life chances is a probabilistic concept introduced by sociologist Max Weber to determine the likely outcomes of an individual's life, on the basis of certain underlying factors?
  42. ...that Wojciech Bobowski was one of the most important musicians of the Ottoman Empire, and the author of the Bible translation into the Ottoman Turkish language?
  43. ...that Flying University was the secret educational conspiratorial enterprise that existed in Warsaw, Poland, in various forms in the 19th and 20th century to provide education outside of the dominating ideology?
  44. ...that in the late 18th century, Russian ambassadors to Poland had power that rivalled and even exceeded that of the Polish king or parliament?
  45. ...that Jacek Dukaj's Black Oceans, a Polish science-fiction novel, received the Janusz A. Zajdel Award Polish award for sci-fi literature in 2001?
  46. ...that the history of communication was dependent on the acquisition of the FOXP2 gene in humans, which facilitated the development of speech 200,000 years ago?
  47. ...that the fictional goat Koziołek Matołek has been a popular Polish children's literature character since first appearing in 1933?
  48. ...that Walerian Łukasiński, a 19th century Polish Army officer, was sentenced to 14 years of imprisonment by the Russian Empire, and died in prison after 44 years, becoming one of the martyrs of the Polish struggle for independence under the partitions?
  49. ...that in their 1956 book Union Democracy, social scientist Seymour Martin Lipset and his colleagues describe how the International Typographical Union once defied Michels' iron law of oligarchy?
  50. ...that Henry of Masovia, 14th century bishop of Płock, might have been poisoned by his wife, sister of Grand Duke of Lithuania, Vytautas the Great?
  51. ...that Mikołaj Trąba, first primate of Poland, took part in the Battle of Grunwald and might have been a papal candidate during the Council of Constance?
  52. ...that Bolko II of Świdnica was the last independent duke of the Piast dynasty in Silesia?
  53. ...that Tadeusz Hołówko became one of the first victims of the assassination campaign carried out by the members of the radical Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists despite his relatively moderate stance in the Polish-Ukrainian conflict?
  54. ...that Fighting Solidarity, created in response to the martial law in Poland of 1982, was among the most radical splinters of Solidarity?
  55. ...that Mury, a protest song by Jacek Kaczmarski about events in Catalonia, became the unofficial anthem of Solidarity?
  56. ... that among the editors of Robotnik, an underground newspaper of the Polish Socialist Party, were Józef Piłsudski, future dictator of Poland, and Stanisław Wojciechowski, future president of Poland?
  57. ...that Michał Dymitr Krajewski wrote the first Polish science fiction novel in 1785, during the period of Enlightenment in Poland?
  58. ...that the cry For your freedom and ours, one of the unofficial mottos of Poland, has been popularized by Polish soldiers, exiled from the partitioned Poland, who fought in various independence movements all over the world?
  59. ...that the Polish capture of Wilno in 1919 set the stage for the future Polish-Soviet and Polish-Lithuanian Wars?
  60. ...that Battle of the Border refers to the series of battles that were the opening stage of the Nazi Germany invasion of Poland in September 1939?
  61. ...that Laments by 16th century Polish poet Jan Kochanowski, a masterpiece of the Polish Renaissance, were inspired by the death of the poet's young daughter, Urszula?
  62. ...that the Muscovite-Lithuanian Wars of the 16th century saw significant territorial gains for the Grand Duchy of Moscow, and forced the Grand Duchy of Lithuania to ally itself closer with the Kingdom of Poland, forming the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth?
  63. ...that 17 days after the Germans invaded Poland in 1939, the Soviet Union joined the invasion, ensuring the fall of the Second Polish Republic?
  64. ...that in the early 1900s the illegal paramilitary Combat Organization of the Polish Socialist Party assassinated hundreds of Russian officials, policemen and secret agents responsible for repression in partitioned Poland?
  65. ...that Taras Fedorovych, a 17th century Cossack hetman, led an unsuccessful uprising over the issue of the Cossack register?
  66. ...that the Political Instability Task Force might have predicted over 85% of major state crises occurring in 1990–1997?
  67. ...that the Poniatowski Bridge in Warsaw was destroyed in both World Wars?
  68. ...that the Society of Friends of Science, first Polish scientific organization, founded in 1800, originated from the Thursday's dinners custom held by the last king of Poland, Stanisław August Poniatowski?
  69. ...that History Line: 1914-1918, a turn-based strategy computer game from 1993, adapted the software engine of the science-fiction Battle Isle series to portray the First World War?
  70. ...that on October 5 1914, a French Voisin III pilot scored the first air-to-air kill of World War I?
  71. ...that neoclassical Staszic Palace in Warsaw was temporary redesigned in a Russo-Byzantine style when Poland was partitioned?
  72. ...that a church of the Order of the Holy Ghost once stood at the site of the Juliusz Słowacki Theatre in Kraków?
  73. ...that the Barbican of Warsaw became obsolete almost immediately after its construction in 1548?
  74. ...that the Polish 4th Rifle Division was the only Polish military unit that fought in the Russian Civil War and returned to Poland undefeated?
  75. ...that the Great Synagogue in Danzig, one of the most impressive synagogues of its time, was demolished by the city council of the Free City of Danzig even before the German invasion of Poland began?
  76. ...that in the Battle of Zhovti Vody the army of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth faced 1:10 odds for 18 days before its final defeat by the Cossack-Tatar alliance?
  77. ...the Swedish forces at the Siege of Jasna Góra were actually German mercenaries and Polish supporters of Charles X Gustav?
  78. ...that the Land Coastal Defence that defended the Polish coast during the German invasion of Poland was subordinate to the Polish Navy, not the Army?
  79. ...that the title of Namestnik of Kingdom of Poland became unused and replaced with that of Governor-General of Warsaw without any formal decree after the death of last namestnik?
  80. ...that the Constitution of the Kingdom of Poland of 1815, considered among the most liberal constitutions of its time, was increasingly disregarded by the Polish government, leading to the November Uprising of 1830?
  81. ...that the Polish minority in Lithuania is the largest ethnic minority in Lithuania?
  82. ...that there are several theories about the origins of the name of Poland?
  83. ...that construction of Żarnowiec, Poland's only nuclear power plant, was cancelled as the project neared completion?
  84. ...that Russian general Władysław Wejtko joined the Polish Army and constructed fortifications in the decisive Battle of Warsaw?
  85. ...that a strike in the Hipolit Cegielski Industries in Poznań, June 1956, led to the first major Polish protest against communism?
  86. ...that General Stanislav Poplavsky was one of thousands of Soviet officers who served as commanders, advisors and officials in the People's Republic of Poland during the Stalinization period?
  87. ...that the Polish Second Army was the second major formation of the Peoples' Army of Poland fighting alongside the Soviet Union in the Second World War?
  88. ...that Kazimierz Pelczar, a Polish professor of the Stefan Batory University and pioneer of oncological research, was one of the 100,000 victims of the Ponary massacre?
  89. ...that Ponary massacre lasted for 3 years as 100,000 Jews, Poles and Russians were murdered by the Nazis and their collaborators near Vilnius?
  90. ...that Leon Wasilewski, first Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs, was one of the chief supporters of the Prometheism policy aimed at breaking up the Soviet Union?
  91. ...that a part of Rawa River in Silesia is currently so polluted it is officially classified as a sewage channel?
  92. ...that the main force of the Łódź Army was destroyed in the Battle of the Border during the Polish Defensive War of 1939, but an Operational Group held out for a month defending the Modlin fortress?
  93. ...that legendary Łysa Góra is the site of an ancient pagan temple, a ruined monastery (pictured) that gave its name to the local mountain range and province and the tallest TV tower in Poland?
  94. ...that confusing orders prevented most Polish forces from taking part in the Battle of Wilno in 1939?
  95. ...that reopening of the Cemetery of the Defenders of Lwów (pictured) in 2005 marked a major improvement of Polish-Ukrainian relations?
  96. ...that following Operation Barbarossa, two distinct Polish military formations were formed in the Soviet Union - the first subordinate to the Polish government in exile, and the second one, to the communist puppet government?
  97. ...that Polish general Józef Zając held military decorations from Poland, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Austro-Hungary, and the short-lived state of Central Lithuania?
  98. ...that the status of the Northern Group of Forces, the Soviet Army unit stationed in Poland from 1945 to 1993, was formally regulated by Soviet-Polish treaty only in 1956?
  99. ...that Polish Armed Forces in the West, despite having their country occupied by the enemy, were one of the most numerous of Western Allies military formations?
  100. ...that bishop Adam Stanisław Krasiński was one of the leaders of the Bar Confederation, the first Polish uprising?
  101. ...that the Poznań 1956 protests were the first major demonstration against the communist government of the People's Republic of Poland?
  102. ...that Antoni Szylling was captured by the Germans as a Major in the Russian Army during World War I, and was captured again by the Germans in World War II as a General of the Polish Army?
  103. ...that in the 1957 Polish legislative elections, only 723 of 60,000 candidates were allowed to run?
  104. ...that the events of Polish October together with Hungarian November shook the Eastern Bloc in 1956 and set the course for the Revolutions of 1989?
  105. ...that Polish-Jewish and American historian Adam Ulam escaped The Holocaust by boarding a ship to study in the U.S. only days before the Germans invaded Poland?
  106. ...that the defection of Polish secret police agent Józef Światło in 1953 shook the Polish United Workers' Party and led to the liberalization of Polish October?
  107. ...that the 1928 legislative election is considered the last free election in Poland before the fall of communism six decades later?


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