Imagine being a teenager from Poland and making the journey to America - Cleveland specifically - in 1916. You settle in with your family and other Poles in what is now called Slavic Village. Your new country enters the war against Germany on April 6, 1917 and even though you are not yet...
The Union of Lublin (1569) transformed the Lithuanian-Polish relations from those of two sovereign states sometimes sharing a single monarch to a single confederation of Poland-Lithuania. Lithuanians needed this union to secure their eastern boundaries from the strengthening Russians whereas a small, ...
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Poland regained its independence after World War I in November 1918. During the time of the Second Polish Republic until the outbreak of World War II in 1939, three constitutions were adopted: the Little Constitution of 1919 (Mała Konstytucja z 1919), the Constitution of 1921 (Konstytucj...
This pride was extremely evident when on my children's first day at school they were expected to stand when the flag was brought into the hall and again when the national anthem was sung. This would be deemed wholly innapropriate in the majority of Irish and British schoolsDespite benefit...
Konstantin Konstantinovich Rokossovsky was a Soviet military commander noted for his role in the Battle of Stalingrad (1942–43). Rokossovsky, whose father was a railroad engineer, served in the imperial army as a noncommissioned officer in World War I.