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12 unusual facts about Gazeta Wyborcza


Agora SA

Agora and Gazeta Wyborcza (English: Electoral Gazette) were created on the eve of the parliamentary elections in 1989.

Gazeta Wyborcza was founded in 1989 as the platform for the first democratic parliamentary elections.

Alfreda and Bolesław Pietraszek

The ceremony at which the Yad Vashem titles were granted to Alfreda and Bolesław Pietraszek took place during the inauguration of the Festival of the Jewish Culture in Olsztyn, popularized by Gazeta Wyborcza and other Polish media.

Andrzej Saramonowicz

He collaborated with some of the main polish mainstream magazines, such as Gazeta Wyborcza, Viva and Przekrój.

Apteka

Their LP "Narkotyki" won "Płyta Roku" ("LP of the Year") of Gazeta Wyborcza in 1992.

Orlengate

Wiesław Kaczmarek (Treasury Minister until January 6, 2003) stated in an interview for Gazeta Wyborcza published on 2 April 2004 that the real purpose of the arrest was to provoke Modrzejewki's dismissal and, as a consequence, not allow signing of a contract for oil supplies worth $14 billion.

Robert Acquafresca

Acquafresca, who speaks Polish, in an interview given to Gazeta Wyborcza (14 March 2008) said that he would leave the decision to the near future .

Rywin affair

On 22 July 2002, Lew Rywin called in at the office of Adam Michnik, editor of Poland's largest daily newspaper, Gazeta Wyborcza.

Only after the Gazeta Wyborcza's alleged investigations had remained inconclusive, on 27 December 2002 - half a year after the incident, which cast some doubts on the real role of the newspaper in the affair - the paper printed the partial record of Michnik's conversation with Rywin, thus starting the actual scandal.

Solidarity Citizens' Committee

Every candidate had an article in Gazeta Wyborcza and posters showing them with the figurehead of the opposition, Wałęsa.

The relaunched union weekly Tygodnik Solidarność, then edited by Tadeusz Mazowiecki, and the new Gazeta Wyborcza (today Poland's largest daily paper), edited by Adam Michnik and launched on 8 May 1989, became influential organs for the movement.

Warszawa Wschodnia railway station

It is now considered the worst railway station in Poland, according to Gazeta Wyborcza which gave it last place in the ranking of 23 most significant Polish railway stations.


Hanna Krall

Shortly after, Wojciech Jaruzelski, then Prime Minister of the former People's Republic of Poland, declared martial law, Krall left "Polityka" and wrote articles for the "Gazeta Wyborcza" some time later.

Jerzy Ziętek Rondo

General Jerzy Ziętek, namegiver of the Rondo, and Wojciech Korfanty, namegiver of one of the streets that crosses it, were named as the two most important Silesian persons in the 20th century by the Gazeta Wyborcza, with Korfanty coming in first and Ziętek second.

Krzysztof Klicki

He started Kolporter started after the free market transformation in Poland, selling newspapers - in particular Gazeta Wyborcza - which he collected from Warsaw overnight and sold in Kielce the next day (the name Kolporter means "distributor" in Polish).

Marek Baraniecki

Set in a post-apocalyptic world, in 2004 the Głowa Kasandry was voted by Gazeta Wyborcza's readers one of top 7 post-apocalyptic novels of all times, alongside the works by Jack London, Herbert Wells and Stephen King.

Michnikowszczyzna. Zapis choroby

It presents a negative analytical and critical view of Adam Michnik, the founder and editor-in-chief of Gazeta Wyborcza (second biggest daily newspaper in Poland), and Michnik's role within Polish society and in the transformation in Poland after 1989.

Nowy Dzień

Nowy Dzień was launched by the publishing company Agora SA, after its flagship publication Gazeta Wyborcza had come under increasing pressure from Fakt, a low-cost tabloid introduced by Axel Springer Polska in 2003.

Stanisław Musiał

He wrote numerous articles in Gazeta Wyborcza, Midrasz, and Polin on antisemitism, Catholic-Jewish relations, and issues between Poland and world Jewry.