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5 unusual facts about Leopold Tyrmand


Leopold Tyrmand

In 1950, during the years of Stalinism in Poland, Tyrmand was removed from the editorial board of popular Przekrój magazine for his report about a boxing tournament, in which he criticized the Russian judges for their pro-Soviet bias (their unfair decisions spurred protests among the boxing fans leading to police intervention).

Before he returned to a devastated Poland, he worked with the Norwegian Red Cross.

--PLEASE HELP WITH SIMILAR GOOGLE ERRORS THROUGHOUT--> With the help of an old friend - Stefan Kisielewski, he found work in the Catholic Tygodnik Powszechny magazine.

In the United States, Tyrmand lived in New York City and New Canaan, Connecticut, until 1976, and regularly published essays in American periodicals such as The New Yorker, The New York Times, Commentary and the The American Scholar.

Tygodnik Powszechny

Later they were joined by Zofia Starowieyska–Morstinowa, Stefan Kisielewski, Leopold Tyrmand, Antoni Gołubiew, Paweł Jasienica (until he was arrested by the Communists in 1948), Stanisław Stomma, Hanna Malewska and Józefa Golmont–Hennelowa.



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