Even the most heroic and tragic moments of Poland’s modern history - the battle of Warsaw, the Katyn massacre, the Warsaw uprising - are subject to contentious political debate. A new cinematic epic is no exception, says Adam Szostkiewicz.
The intense Polish empathy with America of the days after 11 September 2001 drew on an enduring connection. But there are signs of change, says Adam Szostkiewicz.
The air disaster that killed Poland’s president and many of the country’s leading figures in April 2010 is now a source of national division rather than unity, says Adam Szostkiewicz.
The choice of a successor to the president killed in the "second Katyn" tragedy was always going to be an emotionally and politically complex process. The result suggests that the Poles and their institutions have passed both tests, says Adam Szostkiewicz.
Poland, and Europe, are losing our best. A year ago it was Bronislaw Geremek, now it is Leszek Kolakowski. This great philosopher and public intellectual spent years after 1956 in
He was never the president or prime minister of Poland, though he could have been. Yet when he left Poland's ruling United Workers' Party in 1968 to
On Saturday 7 October 2006, some 20,000 people came to the centre of Warsaw. They split into three to show their support for different political agendas. The "blue&
There were fewer flowers and candles to commemorate the first anniversary of the passing of Karol Wojtyla on 2 April 2005, the Pole who became Pope John Paul II. Yet
The Polish national anthem opens with a line saying that Poland shall not perish as long as we are still alive. The we in it are the Polish forces fighting
Poland today exhibits small clarity amidst large confusion. What is certain is that the Poles go to the polls on 25 September to elect both chambers of the national parliament
