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unusual facts about Communist Poland



Dariusz Stola

Stola teaches modern history and conducts research on human migrations in the 20th century, the Holocaust as well as the Polish-Jewish relations and the history of communist regime in postwar Poland.

Ernest Pohl

The German surname of the Pohl family was changed to Pol in 1952 as a result of the polonization of names common in Communist Poland.


see also

Auschwitz cross

Geneviève Zubrzycki, "The crosses of Auschwitz: nationalism and religion in post-communist Poland", University of Chicago Press, 2006, ISBN 0-226-99304-3, 277pp.

Bohdan Arct

In 1947 he moved with his English wife Beryl and daughter to Communist Poland - Wrocław, Warsaw and finally Dobrzanów, where he joined his mother.

Eustachy Sapieha

After the war he did not return to then-communist Poland, and stayed in Nairobi.

Janusz Krupski

The first work printed on the machine was George Orwell's Animal Farm, also unavailable in communist Poland, although the quality of the material was so low due to the inexperience of Krupski and others that the copies had to be discarded.

Kitman

Czesław Miłosz in the The Captive Mind uses Ketman (a variation on Kitman) as a metaphor for understanding how intellectuals behaved under the totalitarian regimes in Postwar Communist Poland, Czechoslovakia, Romania, and Hungary.