Solidarnosc Polakow na calym swiecie z Polskimi kobietami strajkujacymi po 30 lat pracy likwidowanej spó 2;ki Collar Textil Sp. z o.o Opatow
Platforma Obywatelska niszczy nasza narodowa gospodarke.
Od 10 grudnia 2009 roku pracownice i pracownicy likwidowanej spó 2;ki Collar Textil Sp. z o.o. okupują zak 2;ad produkcyjny w Opatowie, starając się udaremnić wywóz maszyn. Inicjatywa Pracownicza wspiera bezpośrednio strajk.
Okupacja rozpoczę 2;a się od udaremnienia próby nielegalnego wywiezienia majątku spó 2;ki przez by 2;ą dyrektor. Wezwana policja bardziej przejęta by 2;a zg 2;oszeniem pani Anny Solus-Borys, która twierdzi 2;a, iż zosta 2;a bezprawnie pozbawiona przez pracowników wolności, mimo że nie mia 2;a prawa jako nieupoważniona przebywać na terenie zak 2;adu. Na terenie firmy przebywa 2; także by 2;y dyrektor Grzegorz K 2;apcia, który zaprzeczy 2;, iż jakoby zosta 2; uprowadzony. Po przybyciu policji przez oko 2;o 12 godzin pozosta 2; z w 2;asnej inicjatywy dalej na zak 2;adzie. Po tym incydencie w pierwszą noc z czwartku na piątek (10/11 grudnia 2009) z 360 za 2;ogi w zak 2;adzie pojawi 2;o się ponad 150 osób, które zdecydowa 2;y uniemożliwić dalszą grabież majątku. Niestety w ciągu kilku dni pomiędzy 1 a 10 grudnia z zak 2;adu wywieziono znaczną część zapasów i środków trwa 2;ych o znacznej wartości. Wiele wskazuje na to, że proceder ten trwa 2; od d 2;uższego czasu. Warte zastanowienia są poczynania lokalnych w 2;adz, prokuratury i sądownictwa. We wrześniu br. do prokuratury wp 2;ynę 2;o zg 2;oszenie pracowników o podejrzeniu pope 2;nienia przestępstwa w związku z uporczywym unikaniem wyp 2;acania wynagrodzenia. Ponadto do prokuratury wp 2;ynę 2;y zg 2;oszenia w związku z zaw 2;aszczeniu przez pracodawcę funduszy związkowych oraz wyprowadzeniu z kasy zapomogowo-pożyczkowej kwoty co najmniej 28 tys. z 2;otych. Jest to zaledwie z zarzutów sformu 2;owanych przez pracowników.Od 12 grudnia, na prośbę o akcje solidarnościowe, odpowiedzia 2;a Inicjatywa Pracownicza i do okupujących do 2;ączyli cz 2;onkowie naszego związku. Przebywają oni ca 2;y czas z okupującymi zak 2;ad.Interesująco przebieg 2;a rocznica 13. grudnia. Od samego rana, w świetle fleszy i kamer, na terenie zak 2;adu pojawi 2;o się wielu notabli i watażków różnego szczebla. Znaczna część z nich pojawi 2;a się tam po raz pierwszy i ostatni, sk 2;adając obietnice bez pokrycia lub obiecując pomoc, do której są zobligowani na podstawie innych przepisów. Przyk 2;adem jest burmistrz Opatowa...Przed po 2;udniem 15. grudnia w zak 2;adzie pojawi 2;a się policja. Rozpoczę 2;a ona czynności zabezpieczające dowody przestępstwa polegającego na dzia 2;aniu przez kierownictwo firmy na szkodę spó 2;ki. Należy się zastanowić dlaczego zainteresowano się tą sprawą dopiero po trzech miesiącach. Warto też bacznie się przyglądać na ile afera z Opatowa zostanie wykorzystana w celach politycznych i stanie się narzędziem rozgrywki przed wyborami samorządowymi.16. grudnia sformalizowa 2; się powo 2;any wcześniej Komitet Protestacyjny Collar Textil. Tego dnia w po 2;udnie u burmistrza pojawi 2;a się delegacja domagająca się wywiązania z niezrealizowanych obietnic. Jedna z nich dotyczy 2;a udzielenia pomocy wszystkim obecnym i by 2;ym pracownikom Collar Textil, którzy pracowali pomimo tego, że część z nich nie dostawa 2;a wynagrodze 4; nawet od czerwca. Żywo zainteresowani utrzymaniem zak 2;adu pracy pracownicy szli na wiele daleko idących ustępstw, aby go ratować.Na spotkaniu 15. grudnia, burmistrz przed kamerami obieca 2;a udzielenie pomocy poszkodowanym pracownikom. Nie sugerowa 2;a, iż będzie to pomoc udzielona z MOPS, do której udzielenia gmina jest zobowiązana na podstawie innych przepisów. Udzielenie pomocy finansowej cz 2;onkom gospodarstwa domowego, w którym dochód na g 2;owę nie przekracza 351 z 2;otych to święty obowiązek gminy. Tym samym w 2;adze gminne nie mia 2;y zamiaru podjąć żadnych dodatkowych dzia 2;a 4;. Sprawa wyda 2;a się z chwilą, gdy w domach Opatowa pojawili się pracownicy MOPS w celu przeprowadzenie wywiadów środowiskowych. Po ponad godzinnej rozmowie z burmistrz, vice burmistrzem i radcą prawnym gminy, uda 2;o się wspólnie wypracować szereg ustale 4;. Burmistrz zobowiąza 2;a się do udzielenia pomocy na zasadzie przepisów o MOPS również osobom, których dochody przekraczają kwotę 351 z 2;otych. Dodatkowo obieca 2;a nie odcinać dostawy wody do budynków firmy do momentu odstąpienia przez okupujących od okupacji. Na sugestię, aby poszukać dalszych środków na pomoc, burmistrz nie potrafi 2;a znaleźć rezerw w budżecie gminy. Uda 2;o się jednak przekonać burmistrz do tego, iż gdyby mający wystąpić na czerwcowym Jarmarku Opatowskim zespó 2; muzyczny obniży 2; gażę, gmina zaoszczędzoną kwotę przekaże na pomoc obecnym i by 2;ym pracownikom Collar Textil. Na wcześniejszym spotkaniu burmistrz obieca 2;a zg 2;osić do sądu wniosek o upad 2;ość Collar Textil następnego dnia po spotkaniu. Ignorancja burmistrz mog 2;a okazać się brzemienna w skutkach dla pracowników firmy. W przypadku nie og 2;oszenia upad 2;ości pracownicy nie mogliby skorzystać ze świadcze 4; Funduszu Gwarantowanych Świadcze 4; Pracowniczych. Warto przypomnieć, że większość z nich nie otrzyma 2;a wynagrodze 4; od czerwca. Burmistrz sądzi 2;a, iż jeśli wniosek taki obieca 2; z 2;ożyć likwidator spó 2;ki, nie musi ona tego robić. Niestety do chwili obecnej nie ma potwierdzenia, iż permanentnie 2;amiący prawo likwidator dokona 2; tego. Burmistrz obieca 2;a, iż z 2;oży ów wniosek natychmiast gdy otrzyma niezbędne dokumenty.W celu uświadomienia w 2;adzom, iż są bardzo zdesperowani, okupujący przeprowadzili trwającą zaledwie pó 2; godziny okupację magistratu. Okupujący w przypadku nie powzięcia dzia 2;a 4; zapowiedzieli przedsiębrać wszelkie prawne i bezpośrednie środki mogące zdobyć poparcia spo 2;ecze 4;stwa i pomocy od w 2;adz.
Wojsko Polskie - Wojska Aeromobilne i Jednostki Specjalne Część 1
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Restitutionist meeting
1. ON February 27, 2007, twenty leaders of Jewish restitution groups will convene in Warsaw, to advance their US$ 65 billion claim against Poland. Israel Singer, the general secretary of the World Jewish Congress, will be there. Jerzy Robert Nowak, a Polish professor of history, writes today in one of the independent papers that Singer's participation is an "extraordinary scandal" absent from most of the media.[i] Singer stated on April 19, 1996 that if Poland does not satisfy Jewish claims, it will be "publicly attacked and humiliated". A Polish publicist, Stanislaw Michalkiewicz has called Singer's declaration a "declaration of war against Poland".
Even a Jewish publicist in Poland, Antoni Marianowicz, has objected to Singer's demands in the April 23, 1996 entry in his book:
"This is simply preposterous; we in Poland have to reckon with the law and wait for suitable laws, and they demand everything right away. Often they are those who lived comfortably in the US, while their families were perishing here in the Holocaust. It's hard to imagine a more effective incitement of anti-Semitism."[ii]
In a recent interview in a Polish main paper, Singer said: "Nobody who lost their house wants to get just a piece of roof, a couple of windows and doors, but the whole house!".[iii]
The Poles are justifiably furious, for example, Nowak:
"As if the Nazi occupier has not methodically destroyed Poland -- Jews have received from Germany more than US$100 billion in compensations -- the Poles themsellves were awarded only meagre handfulls of Deutschmarks for slave labourers".
Nowak pointed out that in the first years after WW2, Jews could recover posessions in Poland fast, owing to sympathy of predominantly Jewish authorities, but the Jews usually sold the properties and left Poland. A few hundred thousand Jews mainly from the USSR immediately received apartments free of charge at the same time.
The US government has intervened on behalf of world Jewry's restitutions. Stuart Eizenstat, left, former special representative of US president and secretary of state for Holocaust-era issues, outlines how the US Jewish community achieved it:
"The Jewish community, considering its small size - only two to three percent of the population depending on who one defines as a Jew - has a remarkable impact on issues relevant to it in the American political system. Various interest groups influence the latter by accessing the Congress, the executive branch, and state and local governments on subjects important to their constituency."
The 1967 Six-Day War marked the coming of age of the Jewish community. Since then, "the entire organized Jewish community has been Zionistic."[iv]
Eizenstat's involvement in the restitution process in Eastern Europe started in 1995 when he was the US ambassador in Europe, and became US special envoy for that purpose: "At that time, Edgar Bronfman, Israel Singer, the WJC and the World Jewish Restitution Organization (WJRO) had already been trying to obtain Eastern European property restitution -- they had the critically important wisdom and knowledge to use the media and political system -- The WJC and the WJRO knew that only American intervention in the former communist countries could lead to achievements. Bronfman had already obtained Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin's support." Later prime ministers Netanyahu (right) and Barak didn't give as much support to Eizenstat, presumably out of concern for
"bi-lateral relationship with the new post-communist countries. Perhaps in their hearts they also wanted their Jewish communities to come to Israel rather than spend their lives in Eastern Europe."[v]
Singer indicated in 2003 that shows the restitutionism is also retributionism: "Yitzhak Shamir, who has a great distaste for Poland, told me he would support the WJC claims against eastern European countries."[vi] Singer recognized the strategic issues for the restitutionists to tackle:
"The eastern European property restitution issue from which the restitution process of the 1990s started has remained a big failure -- First, these are poor countries. Second, they are used to being victims. Third, restitution would require them to admit all the other wrongs they inflicted on the Jews during and after the Holocaust. Their governments try to deal with the local Jewish communities which - except for Hungary - are extremely small and powerless and thus easier partners than the international Jewish organizations."
So far the restitutionists disregarded the poverty of the target nation, Poland. Clinging to "victimhood" by Poles was solved with lies by "history professor" Gross on the Jedwabne crime and the Kielce "pogrom". Pliable "Polish" statesmen admitted Polish guilt for both crimes committed by others, including Communist Jews in the case of Kielce.
In the beginning, writes Eizenstat, restitution efforts focused on "communal assets such as synagogues and other buildings". The process in Poland "will eventually lead to the return of thousands of pieces of communal property" but has been slowed by "a lengthy dispute we helped mediate - between the small Polish Jewish community and the WJRO -- which questioned the local community's capacity to manage the restituted property. The international and local Jewish community will share control."
Marianowicz above indicated the local Jews' outrage with the claim. According to Eizenstat, WJRO also demanded at least some control over the restituted properties. While this should be an internal Jewish matter, WJRO's move means control over a sizeable part of Polish real estate by one institution that has proven extremely hostile to Poles, like the rest of the Jewish restitution movement. Also, the Jewish restitution organizations have been accused of keeping the awards for themselves, rather than distributing them to the needy and eligible Jews.
Some ineligible Jews "had falsified their papers". Germany paid about USD 50 billion, and until 1965 also gave to the Conference a billion dollars in present value, but the victims received only 15 percent:
"The large chunk of the rest of it, according to Ronald Zweig, an expert on the subject, went to Jewish communities in the Arab world, such as Iraq, and institutions such as Yad Vashem in Israel."
The Conference didn't pay the survivors: "They said there weren't any victims anymore -- now they claim all these needy Holocaust victims have languished in poverty all these years, because the Germans gave them no money." Some unjustly treated Shoah survivors said they "trust the German government more than they do the Jewish organizations".[vii]
Israeli banks deny payments from accounts of Shoah victims, too. In January 2005, a Knesset committee slammed Israeli banks for "severe negligence" in handling some 9,000 accounts totaling NIS 1 billion and locating the heirs. In the first years of WW2, the banks managed to ride out mass withdrawals thanks to the funds deposited by thousands of European Jews. Some of the banks misappropriated the funds and destroyed documents. A bill proposed that a government corporation would handle the restitution of bank accounts, real estate, stocks and other assets. Money without heirs would go to humanitarian causes.[viii]
Nowak's worst predictions come true. In 1999, he warned about an "anti-Polish alliance" of polonophobic Jewish, German and Russian groups: "The most threatening to us may prove an alliance of very influential Jewish and German factions."[ix]
Nowak wrote today, alluding to German restitution claims filed around Christmas 2006 against Poland:
"We see a clear synchronization of Jewish and German claims. Both are based on a common lie that seeks to paint WW2 Poles as executioners, instead of the factual victims we have been. Some influential Ukrainian groups suddenly added their indemnity claims for Operation Wisla, which was predictable when some time ago miscellaneous Polish "apologizers" showed up."
In Operation Wisla (1.5.1947 - 16.8.1947) that aimed at fragmentation of a minority religion, the new Communist government of Poland transported some 140,000 pre-war Polish citizens of Orthodox Christian faith, from the eastern part of the new state to former Eastern Germany.[x]
They were mainly Ukrainians and followed millions of Poles re-settled from former Eastern Poland, which the victorius Allies gave to Stalin "in exchange" for the Eastern German lands. It is unclear why Ukraine would advance claims on behalf of Ukrainians in Poland
The War on Christmas!
izabella scorupco
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Katyn", directed by Wajda, is the first Polish film on the Katyn crime and the so-called Katyn lie.The movie uses stories from an authentic diary of major Adam Solski found during the exhumation in 1943 to tell the fate of four fictional officers and their families.Wajda's father, lt. Jakub Wajda, then 43, was among the Polish officers taken prisoner by the Soviet army and killed by a shot to the back of the head in the Katyn forest.In March 1940 Soviet leader Josef Stalin ordered the executions of 22,000 Polish army and police officers, intellectuals and clergy. The killings took place in the spring of the same year in the Katyn Forest. The victims, mostly from POW camps in Kozielsk, Starobielsk and Ostaszkow, were shot in the back of the head. The Nazis discovered the mass graves during their march on Moscow in the fall of 1941, but Soviet propaganda blamed the deaths on Adolf Hitler and punished anyone speaking the truth with harsh prison terms. In 1990, Moscow admitted that dictator Josef Stalin's secret police were responsible.
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2009 - Pielgrzymka Żo 2;nierzy: Polskich, Niemieckich i Ameryka 4;skich na Jasną Górę - Mstów
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By Army Staff Sgt. Stephanie McCurryIllinois National Guard
SPRINGFIELD, Ill., (8/31/09) -- Imagine walking from Peoria to Aurora. In August, eight Illinois National Guard members did just that, except in a foreign country, Poland. Six Soldiers and two Airmen walked 137 miles, beginning in Warsaw and ending in Czestochowa, in 10 days for the annual Polish pilgrimage. They walked with a group of about 300 people that included Polish, German and Slovakian Soldiers. Every year, thousands of Catholics from around the world go to Poland to participate in the ceremonial walk to Jasna Gora monastery in Czestochowa, the site of the revered Black Madonna icon.
Their journey began with an early morning mass at the field cathedral of the Polish Army. Every day, the group attended Mass regardless of their various faiths and beliefs.During the 12-hour walk each day, they were treated with prayers, songs and sermons in German, Polish, Italian and English broadcasted through large speakers carried by participants. Local residents provided pilgrimage participants with food, refreshments and encouragement along the route. Every night, the Illinois Guardsmen slept in tents provided by the Polish Armed Forces.
“I was told numerous times by Polish Soldiers that they got a kick out of the fact that the German Soldiers and American Soldiers were communicating to each other through their Polish translators,” said Sgt. David Sworobowicz.
Local farmers stood along the route and handed out their fruit and vegetables to everyone walking in the pilgrimage. The cities also worked together to offer soups and bread for lunch everyday. The other breaks they had throughout the day were at numerous churches. “The civilians’ generosity along the way is unmatched,” said 2nd Lt. Veronica Kool, of Springfield, Illinois Army National Guard. “All along the route, the Polish stood waiting outside their homes offering whatever food they had to give.”
“The religious experience gained from this exercise is above and beyond rewarding,” said Sworobowicz. “I can only hope to do it again sometime.”
The trip ended at Jasna Gora monastery in Czestochowa with the military pilgrimage walking the last half mile or so through thousands of supportive spectators that waved, shook their hands, gave hugs and took pictures of the group. “It is not every day that you get to travel overseas for a friendly noncombative operation,” said 1st Lt. Jeremy Dugena. “From the arrival in Poland, the Polish Army were incredible hosts making sure we had everything we needed.”
Illinois Guardsmen participated in the pilgrimage to commemorate the 1655 Polish victory over Sweden and to build a stronger relationship with the Polish. The National Guard sponsored State Partnership Program (SPP) between the Illinois National Guard and Republic of Poland was established in 1993.The SPP links National Guard states and territories with their partner countries to foster mutual interests and establishing long-term relationships across all levels of society. Through the SPP, Illinois Army and Air National Guard service members have participated in annual, joint training exchanges with military forces of the republic of Poland.
“Their professionalism and maturity are what I desire in every group of Guardsmen who come to Poland,” said Maj. James Fisher, the bilateral affairs officer for the U.S. Embassy in Warsaw. “They promoted the State Partnership Program with flying colors and are model diplomats of our country.”
POLAND AGAIN REFUSEDVISA WAIVER STATUS
Washington, D.C. (PMN)—The following letter was sent on October 17, 2008, by Frank Spula, President of the Polish American Congress (PAC), to Senator John McCain and Senator Barack Obama:
"As you may know, today a ceremony took place in the White House Rose Garden, during which President Bush announced that seven countries - Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia and South Korea – met the requirements to join the Visa Waiver Program.
"Poland was not included as one of the favored nations.
"I am certain that you are well aware of the great significance the inclusion of Poland in the Visa Waiver Program would have to one of this country’s most steadfast allies.
"However, Poland is still yet to be included as, according to the most recent statistics, the refusal rate in Poland is three points too high.
"There is no need to reiterate all of the facts that show how Poland has been for years one of the most reliable and consistent allies of the United States in many arenas, as well as the fact that Poland not only does not pose any kind of terrorist threat, but has done a lot to combat this international menace. I am certain that you already know all of those arguments.
"However, I would like to emphasize another, perhaps less known aspect of the situation, namely the great loss of good will today’s continued exclusion means to many people of Poland towards the United States of America.
"I have been repeatedly hearing how feelings of excitement and support towards our great country have been over the course of the last two years turning into those of disappointment and bitterness.
"Furthermore, and more worrisome, I have been hearing that many members of the 10 million strong Polish American Community (Polonia) are starting to hold similar feelings.
"In these turbulent times, the United States has to cultivate and cherish its relationships with most faithful allies. Poland is definitely among those nations. It is time, in fact it is now much past due, to show Poland that its support and contributions are valued by the United States, and not with sweet words, but with concrete actions.
"As the President of the Polish American Congress, one of the oldest-and the largest-Polish ethnic organization in the United States, I urge you, either as the next president of our great nation or on the Senate floor, to do what the previous administration has been promising Poland and Polonia for years but have never delivered – make sure that Poland joins the privileged ranks of the visa free travel as soon as possible."
A similar letter was sent to President George W. Bush, who has been promising the visa waiver for Polish citizens for years, but, despite praising Poland as an ally, has not delivered on the promise.
Obama has said that he would invite Poland to join the Visa Waiver Program. A campaign release stated, "Today’s visa regime with Poland reflects neither the current strategic relationship nor the close historic bond between our peoples … In particular, this means expanding the program to countries, like Poland, that have demonstrated a capacity and willingness to cooperate with the U.S. in achieving counterterrorism goals."
McCain has been silent on the subject during his campaign for the presidency and reportedly agrees with the current Bush policy on visa waivers.Hundreds of US soldiers join Polish pilgrimageBy VANESSA GERA – 17 hours ago WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Hundreds of soldiers in camouflage set off Tuesday on a 10-day march to Poland's holiest Roman Catholic shrine — among them five Americans hoping to deepen ties with an ally.Five members of the Illinois National Guard traveled to Poland to make the 180-mile (290-kilometer) trek on foot — alongside Poles, Germans and other Europeans — from Warsaw to Czestochowa, site of the revered Black Madonna icon.Though the 300-year-old pilgrimage has deep religious and patriotic resonance in mainly Catholic Poland, the main purpose of the U.S. contingent, a tradition that has started in recent years, is to show solidarity with Poland — an ally in Iraq and Afghanistan — and other nations.It's a chance "to come together and share a little bit, and hopefully develop closer bonds with foreign militaries in a non-combat type setting," said Master Sgt. Roman Waldron, 37, from Springfield, Illinois.Before embarking on the pilgrimage, the pilgrims attended an early morning Mass at the Field Cathedral of the Polish Army, where a priest blessed them with holy water. They were also told to set a moral example and refrain from drinking or smoking during the march.The Black Madonna — which legend says was painted by St. Luke — was brought to the Jasna Gora monastery in Czestochowa in 1384.Many miracles have been attributed to the painting, including a 1655 siege during which 70 monks and 180 supporters held off nearly 4,000 soldiers from the Protestant Swedish army and inspired Poles to rise up and throw out the invaders.Sgt. 1st Class Evan Young, from Rock Island, Illinois, believes the pilgrimage is going to be even more meaningful than he had first imagined."Originally when I was given the opportunity I thought it would be kind of a neat way to see Poland, but then I started doing research on the Black Madonna and the siege and I thought it's part of a much bigger thing," said Young, a 45-year-old who grew up Episcopalian."It's pretty neat to be taking part in this, and help improve relations with Poland and other countries that are here," he said.Only one of the five American soldiers is a Catholic. They will sleep in eight-man tents set up along the route by the Polish army.The soldiers were trailed by thousands of students and other pilgrims in Warsaw, and will eventually join up with thousands more expected to converge on Czestochowa next week, ahead of the August 15 Catholic holy day marking the Assumption of Mary.Warsaw Archbishop Kazimierz Nycz walked briefly with the group Tuesday."This builds brotherhood among soldiers from different countries," he said.
INKA - ...zachowa 2;am się jak trzeba of Poland
Solomon Morel, barbaric torturer now hiding out in Israel. Poland is demanding that Israel extradite
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Gdzie są kwiaty z tamtych lat?
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Rafal Blechacz the new Chopin Of Poland
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"Bóg i Pan nasz na wieki b 2;ogos 2;awiony da 2; zwycięstwo i s 2;awę narodowi naszemu, o jakiej wieki przesz 2;e nigdy nie s 2;ysza 2;y" - Jan III Sobieski.
<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/aL0GieO5Rj8&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/aL0GieO5Rj8&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>Vienna was a strong fortress, but by the end of August 1683, the city was in mortal danger of collapsing to the Turkish attack. Food and ammunition were inadequate, The Ottoman siege cut virtually every means of food supply into Vienna, and the garrison and civilian volunteers suffered extreme casualties. Fatigue became such a problem that Ernst Rüdiger Graf von Starhemberg ordered any soldier found asleep on watch to be shot.The siege by the Islamic Turks of the Christian city of Vienna in 1683 was a watershed incident in European history. Had the Turks been successful, there well might have been no Christian Europe to dominate the world stage for the next 300 years. Facing that magnitude of threat, European powers that were normally jealous and hostile to one another suppressed their mutual antagonisms to defeat the armies of Islam and their brutal Tartar Allies.Before he set out, Sobieski had sent a letter to Innocent XI, in which he wrote: "When the good of the Church and Christianity is concerned I shed my blood to the last drop, together with the whole kingdom. Since my kingdom and I are two bulwarks of Christianity". Sobieski said that his purpose for going to Vienna was "to proceed to the Holy War, and with God's help to give back the old freedom to besieged Vienna, and thereby help wavering Christendom."Duke Charles, an outstanding commander, wrote about Sobieski that "his very presence means as much as the arrival of the whole army". In the Battle of Vienna, the Turks lost about 25,000 men (plus another 40,000 at The Battle of Parkany that followed). These 65,000 soldiers constituted the cream of the Turkish cavalry on the field, while the allies lost less then 4000 killed and wounded.For Poland, this was her last great moment on center-stage when she saved Europe from Islam.The loot that fell into the hands of the Holy League troops and the Viennese was as huge as their relief, as King Sobieski vividly described in a letter to his wife a few days after the battle: "Ours are treasures unheard of ... tents, sheep, cattle and no small number of camels ... it is victory as nobody ever knew of, the enemy now completely ruined, everything lost for them. They must run for their sheer lives ... Commander Starhemberg hugged and kissed me and called me his savior."Upon entering the abandonded Turkish tents, they found bags of beans - coffee beans revealing how Turks could fight day and night. Shortly thereafter, Polish General Kulczycki opened one of Viennas first coffeehouses and coffee quickly spread across Europe.After the Battle Jan Sobieski entered Vienna in glory. The King and his Polish army had won lots of fame after their victory. Jan Sobieski III was not only looked upon as the savior of Vienna, but as a savior of the whole Europe from the Ottoman Turks.The Holy League, created by several Christian states to fight the common Turkish enemy, is an example of how the European powers formed alliances when common traditions and values were at stake; some have commented that the situation was similar to the Crusades, but on this occasion, the "Crusade" was taking place in the very heart of Europe. To commemorate Sobieskis victory Pope Innocent XI announced 12 September the day of glory of the Holy Name of Mary and to show his admiration for the Poles and their king the Pope accepted the sign of the Crowned Eagle into his papal coat of arms. However, the victory over the Turks and the rescue of the Habsburgs did not bring Poland-Lithuania any advantages. The Commonwealth did not regain Kamieniec, the region of Podolia and the right-bank Ukraine (they returned to Poland after 16 year old war with Turkey). Yet, Austria was strengthened and it was one of Poland-Lithuania invaders in the 18th century. However, Sobieski could not foresee that. The posterity always remembered him with gratitude. King Jan III Sobieski has been rightly associated with the greatness of the former Commonwealth and as a defender of Christianity and vanquisher of the Turks.
Polish Uhlans - U 2;ani [Sabaton - Primo Victoria
Uhlans (in Polish: "U 2;an"; "Ulan" in German, from Turkish oğlan [1]) were Polish light cavalry armed with lances, sabres and pistols. The title was later used by lancer regiments in the Prussian and Austrian armies.Uhlans typically wore a double-breasted jacket (kurta) with a coloured panel (plastron) at the front, a coloured sash, and a square-topped Polish lancer cap (czapka) also spelt chapka, chapska and schapska. This cap or cavalry helmet was derived from a traditional design of Polish cap, made more formal and stylised for military use.Their lances usually had small swallow-tailed flags (known as the lance pennon) just below the spearhead.World War II:Although the Polish cavalrymen retained their sabres, after 1937 the lance was no longer standard issue, but was issued to cavalrymen as an optional weapon of choice. Instead the cavalry units were equipped with 75mm field guns, light tanks, 37mm anti-tank guns, 40mm anti-aircraft guns, as well as anti-tank rifles and other modern weapons. Although there were cavalry charges during World War II and many were successful, they were an exception rather than a rule.
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The Polish-Bolshevik War 1919-1921
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This song is about the Battle of Wizna in Poland 1939 where Cpt Raginis and his brave 720 soliders defended Wizna from the nazis.Polish subtitles.
ON February 27, 2007, twenty leaders of Jewish restitution groups will convene in Warsaw, to advance their US$ 65 billion claim against Poland. Israel Singer, the general secretary of the World Jewish Congress, will be there. Jerzy Robert Nowak, a Polish professor of history, writes today in one of the independent papers that Singer's participation is an "extraordinary scandal" absent from most of the media.[i] Singer stated on April 19, 1996 that if Poland does not satisfy Jewish claims, it will be "publicly attacked and humiliated". A Polish publicist, Stanislaw Michalkiewicz has called Singer's declaration a "declaration of war against Poland
I only hope Poland has the balls to throw the extortionists out.
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Sabaton 40: 1(Battle of Wizna 1939)
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Singer stated on April 19, 1996 that if Poland does not satisfy Jewish claims, it will be "publicly attacked and humiliated". What? By sending Jerry Seinfeld out on tour to tell Polish jokes?I think Poland can survive this Zionist onslaught.
Baptised in fire.Forty to oneSo silent before the stormAwaiting commandA few has been chosen to standAs one outnumbered by farThe orders from high commandFight back, hold your ground!In early September it cameA war unknown to the worldNo warning they entered that landThat is protected by polish handUnless you are forty to oneYour force will soon be undoneBaptised in fireForty to oneSpirit of spartansDeath and glorySoldiers of PolandSecond to noneWrath of the Wehrmacht brought to a haltThe 8th of September it startsThe rage of the ReichA barrage of mortars and gunsStand [f]ast, the bunkers will holdThe captain has pledged his lifeI'll face my fate here!The sound of artillery strikeSo fierceThe thunder of gunsSo come, bring on all that you've gotCome hell, come high water, never stopUnless you are forty to oneYour lives will soon be undoneBaptised in fire40 to 1Spirit of spartansDeath and glorySoldiers of polandSecond to noneWrath of the Wehrmacht brought to a haltAlways remember, a fallen soldierAlways remember, fathers and sons at warAlways remember, a fallen soldierAlways remember, fathers and sons at warAlways remember, a fallen soldierAlways remember, buried in historyNo vermin may enter that landThat is protected by polish handUnless you are forty to oneYour force will soon be undoneBaptised in fireForty to oneSpirit of spartansDeath and glory!Soldiers of PolandSecond to noneWrath of the Wehrmacth brought to a haltNo, no, noThere are several videos on YouTube with the soundtrack. The creators haveadded video and still photgraphs. The video which I saw on TV Polonia hasPolish subtitles. It has been seen by over 1.4 million. You can watch ithere:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBwwFsKTJGsA Polish TV news story about Sabaton and 40:1 can be seen here:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWo7XcosfMc
Polacy powinni aliantom “fakturę” wystawić za ca 2;ą II wojnę (zdrada w 1939, walki na obu frontach, Powstanie Warszawskie, okupacja sowiecka) nikogo tak jak Polaków nie zrobiono na szaro a teraz jeszcze o odszkodowania się upominają I only hope Poland has the balls to throw the extortionists out.
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Historia Polski od chrztu do wejscia do UE/History of Poland from baptism to joining UEMuzyka/Music:Hans Zimmer-Pirates of The Carribean III-One DayHans Zimmer-Pirates of The Carribean III-Up is DownHans Zimmer-Pirates of The Carribean III-What shall we die forRichard Vaughan-Medieval II Total War soundtrack-SolenkaHans Zimmer-Pirates of The Carribean III-I Don't Think Now is The Best TimeHans Zimmer-Pirates of The Carribean III-Drink Up Me Hearties
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British historian Norman Davies on Polish history
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Polish King Jan III Sobieski Saved EUROPE From Becoming a Muslim State!!
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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from Polish 007 Izabella Scorupco and RAQport.com
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" 2008-07-16 09:24:05 Pieś 4; pochodzi z p 2;yty "Rzeczpospolita Wielu Narodów" i jest wykonywana przez Antoniego Pilcha i jego przyjació 2; z "Bractwa Lutni" z Dworu na Wysokiej. Zarejestruj
Poland-Lithuania vs. German Teutonic Order
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Jan Matejko (1838-1893), the most popular creator of romantic visions of Polish history, declared, "Art is a weapon of sorts; one ought not to separate art from the love of one's homeland." Contemporary artists and spectators may find the pomposity and even a certain naivete of that statement are difficult to accept and not only because it was over a hundred years ago that this opinion and many similar ones were expressed. After all, the great adventure of the New Art had already begun, first in Paris, later in Vienna, London and Munich where many Polish artists had studied. Paul Cezanne, the French painter who established the foundations of Art of the Twentieth Century, was a year younger than Matejko. Claude Monet, one of the greatest of the impressionists, was two years his junior. And the tragic end of Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890), perhaps one of the best known heroes of Modern Art, took place as early as 1890. Hence, three years before Matejko' s own premature death.Nonetheless, one must not forget that Matejko made the above declaration at a time when Poland, erased from the map of Europe, had no statehood. Many artists, in common with such writers as Nobel Laureate Henryk Sienkiewicz, took upon themselves the responsibility for rebuilding the national identity threatened by the policies of the foreign powers that had partitioned and subjugated the country. Given the title of my talk, one might well ask why I begin with Matejko whose art is after all a reflection of the traditional 19th Century attitude to the world and to the people around him? Being an artist myself, opposed to the use of art for any political purposes and to the regarding of painting as a form of didacticism, I do so to strongly emphasize the impact of history on the art of several significant 20th Century Polish artists.The question can be raised regarding what modern Polish art would look like but for "The Painted History" created by the 19th century "army" of artists with Jan Matejko as its "commander in chief?" Certainly, it would have look very different. Matejko, in fact, was even more that the commander. He was a highly respected "institution," He was a sovereign.The Battle of Grunwaldby Jan Matejko,1878, 4.26 X 9.87 meters. oil on canvas, National Museum, Warsaw Click on image to enlargeExhibitions of his works became not only local but national events which excited strong emotions. In 1878, following the unveiling of his enormous painting The Battle of Grunwald which portrays the 1410 Polish-Lithuanian victory over the Knights of the Germanic Order of the Cross, Matejko was offered a royal scepter by his compatriots. That tiny, sickly, but unbelievably hard working parishioner from Cracow was considered a national leader, a teacher, a prophet on par with the trio of national bards: Mickiewicz, Slowacki, and Krasinski. The prophesy he made at the time: "Today there are no Polish kings. There is an interregnum. Without no doubt, it will not last long." became the subject of high level official correspondence but it did not personally harm its author; it simply increased his prestige and influence. A time of great changes was approaching. After decades of forcible Germanization, the imperial government in Vienna had decided to bestow upon the so called "Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria," (i.e., the area of Poland in the Austrian partition ,usually referred to as Galicia), a ceratin degree of political, cultural and economic autonomy. In 1869, Cracow received a considerable measure of self rule and, most importantly, the right to use the Polish language in schools and in the courts. Soon its Jagiellonian University, founded in the 14th century, was re-opened. But the greatest benefit the city derived from this liberalization was in the cultural sphere, because its political role, even within Galicia, was reduced while its economy remained practically non-existent. After the 1873 establishment of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences, Cracow became a center for scholarly research, particularly in the humanities; in political history, the history of literature, and in archeology, these activities embracing all three sections of the partitioned country and even extending beyond its frontiers.During the last decades of the 19th century, Cracow positivists loyal to the Austrian Empire strongly criticized the unrealistic thinking and delusions of Polish romanticism which claimed that Poles were a chosen people with a messianic mission. Such political currents were a reaction to the disaster of the January Uprising of 1863 against Russia, precipitated by the impressment, on the orders of Margrave Wielkopolski of some 1500 of Warsaw's activist youths. The positivist concept of Polish history was somewhat counterbalanced by Matejko, a romantic remnant, a romantic relic in a positivist present. The Cracow conservatists declared a half legendary, daring 16th century court jester, STANCZYK by name, as their patron. Paradoxically, it was Matejko who had first revived theat colorful figure, but gave him quite a different role to play in his huge theater upon canvas. It is significant that Stanczyk, as painted by Matejko, was always portrayed with the painter's face.If we scrutinize carefully the "last" 138 years of Polish art history, we shall discover the presence of Stanczyk in many works of art from Wyspianski, and Malczewski, through Kantor and up to the young artists of the nineteen eighties and nineties. The attitude of a jester frequently helped many artists to survive and maintain their independence under more or less intolerant or even totalitarian systems.Stanislaw Wyspianski was born in Cracow in 1869. In 1876 he met Jan Matejko and became his student. From the very beginning he was obsessed with the idea of preserving and evoking the past. His knowledge of history was unbelievable. However, at that time, not being too original, he gained his master's praise. Matejko is said to have proclaimed "He will be Matejko twice over." In fact, Wyspianski came to be both more and less than two Matejkos. He was to become somebody else; not a multiple of Matejko, but one unrepeatable Wyspianski. A great multi talented artist, playwright, and poet effective to some degree in all the media of fine arts, including architectural planning. He was a real Renaissance man who surpassed his teacher intellectually. Gazing at this paintings and drawings we should not forget that Wyspianski came to be viewed as one of the greatest reformers of not only Polish but also European theater.The years Wyspianski studied in Paris allowed him to escape the influence of his master. To Wyspianski, the Art Nouveau trends revealed the relatedness of the arts, their inter-penetration, their movement towards synthesis. French theater, opera and particularly German Wagnerian drama, opened his eyes to his own literary talents and pulled him in the direction of dramatic works. Wyspianski, however, continued to see himself as a painter, designer and maker of stained glass, of frescoes - monumental works. It was only reverses in these fields of art that tipped the scales of his talent toward theater.And so this artist created such great modernist works of Poland's national theater as The Wedding and Deliverance. While Matejko's paintings show the artist's complete dependence on his native environment, Wyspianski's works even more so. He is just inconceivable outside of Cracow. Leon Schiller, a famous theater director, characterized Cracow as "the city containing within its walls more legends and elements inspiring drama and the theater than all the other Polish cities taken together" and as "the most theatrically minded city in Poland." Wyspianski was a product of Cracow in the fullest meaning of that word. Except for some three years spent abroad, his entire short, hectic and tense life was spent in his native city which became for him an obsession. In particular the Wawel Hill became a focal point of Wyspianski' s activities. And history is present in most of Wyspianski' s works, be these furniture designs,, paintings, poems, theatrical plays, etc.Earlier, in 1848 Wawel Castle, or rather the whole of the Wawel Hill, a place of unique importance to the Polish people, had been turned it into an army barracks and partly destroyed by the Austrians. When, due to a more liberal policy, its ownership was returned to Cracow' s community, it inspired patriotic emotions and discussions concerning its shape and destiny. The impoverished city, devastated by the great fires of 1850 and 1866, suddenly retrieved the symbol of the glorious past. After an accidental opening of the tomb of Casimir the Great, one of the most outstanding kings of the Piast dynasty, the ceremonial funeral leading to reinterment his remains became a nation-wide patriotic manifestation.Casimir the Greatby Stanislaw Wyspianski,1900-1902, Pastel, 436 x 148 cmNational Museum, CracowSaint Stanislausby Stanislaw Wyspianski,1893-94, Pastel, 436 x 148 cmNational Museum, CracowPoloniaby Stanislaw Wyspianski,1893-94, Pastel, 298 x 153 cmNational Museum, CracowClick on image to enlargeIt was an event destined to be echoed in a 1901 poetic rhapsody by Wyspianski who also created a caroon design for a Casimir the Great stained glass window for Wawel's Royal Cathedral. In 2000, Andrzej Wajda, Poland's distinguished film maker, proposed a realization of that 1900-1904 masterpiece, which in the eyes of Wyspianski's contemporaries was too shocking to deserve a place in Wawel Cathedral - as was his design of for a Saint Stanislaus window featuring the controversial eleventh century bishop murdered by King Boleslaus the Bold. Polonia commissioned for Lwow's Cathedral, proved to be yet another unrealized stained glass window design by Wyspianski.History is less visible in Wyspianski's paintings and pastels than in his dramas and poems, but his representations of the "Polish Acropolis," as Wyspianski called the Wawel Hill, a the most impressive ever produced. He is but one of those artists who created history themselves. Unlike Matejko, Wyspianski was never presented a scepter. As with most great Polish artists, he was misunderstood, unappreciated, and even humiliated by his compatriots. Wronged, but aware of his greatness, he wrote a poem that began with the words:
Melancholiaby Jacel Malczewski,1900-1902, 55x95" oil on canvas, National Museum, Poznan Click on image for enlarged sections of the painting Jacek Malczewski (1854-1929) was also one of Matejko's numerous students. He came to Cracow from the Radom area in the Russian partition, but soon became a prominent figure of Cracow's artistic life. Later he was elected the provost of Cracow's famous Academy of Fine Arts. Being undoubtedly one of the greatest painters in the history of Polish art, he was also a highly original visionary and a committed patriot. Let us look at one of his early but best known masterpieces, Melancholy (1890) which bears the subtitle Prologue. Last Century in Poland. Surpassing Matejko's pieces in respect of color and composition, that big, weird painting definitely would not be possible without Matejko's influence.A seated artist is shown in his studio, facing a blank canvas, with his back to the viewer. A black figure stands by the open window at the other side of the canvas. The title of the painting suggests its meaning. Melancholy symbolizes the artist and hence refers to his duty, which is to provide a vision of history. The subtitle, in turn, describes that artist's vision. There is a crowd of figures swirling in the studio who, let us observe, make up the shape of a cross. At the base of the cross are children symbolizing the beginning of life and at the same time of an unfortunate period in the history of Poland. In the middle are men with scythes (the traditional weapon of Polish insurgents), participants in the 19th century uprisings. The left side of the cross, that nearest to the half opened window, is filled with old men near death, prisoners and deportees to Siberia, victims of successive uprisings.Without going into Malczewski's complex symbolism, let us point out that the image depicts the history of Poland in the 19th century, a period of struggle for independence, a struggle for independence, a struggle which resulted in the deaths of thousands of people. The figure standing on the right is death as well as future deliverance. In other words, the artist suggests, independence will come in the wake of death. The form of the cross filled with figures is a reference to the sacrifice of Christ who redeemed mankind through his death. Likewise, Poland was to rise from the dead through an offering of blood. Hence the open window is a symbol of hope for the coming century, that in which the nation will be redeemed.The Polish Hamlet by Jacek Malczewski, oil on canvas, 1903Flanked by two images of Poland, one old and bound, the other free, radical and revolutionary, the aristocrat, Aleksander Wielopolski, finds the choice a difficult one.The painting symbolizes the dilemma faced by those living in partitioned Poland whether to stay with the status quo or to seek freedom by staging one more uprising, even though all the previous ones had brought defeat and repression. I have already mentioned Margrave Wielopolski, the plenipotentiary of Tsarist government in the Russian partition. Though he introduced reforms polonizing both the administration and schools, his short sighted decision to impress into the tsarist army activist young men led to the tragic events in 1863. No matter what his purposes were, he became a tragic figure, hated and despised by the majority if the Polish people. Malczewski's Polish Hamlet, painted in 1903, represents that aristocrat's dilemma: how to be a savior of the nation rather than its traitor, while remaining an obedient servant of Moscow. Other paintings by Malczewski don't refer to the Polish history as directly. According to some, however, The Poisoned Well which appears in many of his works acts as a symbol of partitioned Poland.Currently, there is a much acclaimed exhibition of Jacek Malczewski' s works in Paris in such an important place as Musee d'Orsay."Melancholy's" window opened in 1918 when Poland became an independent state. That, naturally, created quite a different reference point for artistic culture. Art no longer had to act as the treasury of the national memory or create prophetic visions to sustain the spirit. Modernist references were to satisfy the ambitions of the nascent European and democratic society; local references, often visible as those to folk art, satisfied the need for the national legitimacy of the new state, thus justifying its existence.There are many good illustrations of the process. Few in the West, i.e Western Europe and North America, realize how rich was the country's artistic life during 1918-39 period, those twenty years of Polish independence. The names of most art movements and artists of that period, as well as their achievements, remain unknown to most people in the West. Often these achievements were precursory to American and West European avant garde ideas, particularly those of the nineteen sixties and the eighties. However, that's not the topic of my lecture. Let me, instead, present to you a very prolific woman viewed by many as a second rate decorative artist, but whose works are very representative of that period: Zofia Stryjenska. Almong her works there are several historical ones. Piast by Zofia Stryjenska, oil on canvas, 1932In Piast, one of these, two angels visit Piast the wheelwright and announce to him that his son is going to be a prince or king. The scene, based on a well known legend, was one also drawn and painted by. Matejko and Wyspianski. Still, what a difference in terms of form, colors, but, above all, the artist's attitude towards the theme. No more solemnity, drama and prophecy. Stryjenska' s is a typically optimistic painting, characteristic for the twenties and thirties, an epoch of the Art Deco style. There were many more artists and trends that dealt in some way Poland's history. (Some Formists, "Frigian Cap", "Horned Heart Tribe" groups, etc.) For obvious reasons I cannot discuss them all. Yet, I would hazard a statement that the heritage of history has been more or less present in most of the art works produced by Polish artists up to now. Even those who were strongly opposed to the traditions of the past, sooner or later come back to them consciously or subconsciously. World War II put a stop to many artistic processes, especially as it caused changes in the institutional structure of the country. The implementation of a new political system, based on one party rule and a non-sovereign government (though relics of a multi-party system and sovereignty were preserved for the sake of appearances, especially during the ‘40s) most evidently affected the post-war art world. For the Polish nation as a whole and for people individually, the war had been primarily a traumatic experience and as such became an important element of a search for historical identity, conducted by many artists, especially those of the younger generation. Let me mention but a few.Execution V by Andrzej Wroblewski, 1949Andrzej Wroblewski (1927-1957). His art is a penetrating illustration of the peculiar psychological condition when the subject and the object merge in the experience of horror. His series of Executions represents the physical existence of the human body, or the existence of man, at the moment of death. Wroblewski believed that realistic art was the formula which made the achievement of the goals of the ideology possible and saw his art as fitting in with the doctrine. The early fifties showed that politicians knew better than artists what kind of realism was right. The Great Communist Terror began destroying human minds and bodies. Some who, for various reasons, believed or were trying to believe in propaganda also failed.Socialist Realism was established as the only way to represent reality. This doctrine is formally and thematically simple. It reminds us of the syllabuses in primary schools which make us believe, after we finish them, that the world is one-dimensional: happy or sentimental, heroic and victorious. "Socialist in content, national in form" even the definition was imported from Moscow. Jan Matejko and other nineteenth century Polish painters certainly never realized that some of their works would become a tool or an instrument in the hands of communist propagandists. The post World War II artists were expected to create the visions of the NEW WONDERFUL SOCIALIST WORLD and to overtake Matejko who was not always ideologically correct. He was too "bourgeois." Thus, some of Matejko's paintings seemed somewhat inconvenient, particularly those representing fights with the Russians. These were carefully concealed. The rest were flaunted as models and pattern formed as free from "Western poisons of any kind." It is not easy to evaluate Wroblewski' s attitude. He was a member of the Communist Party for a while. He painted several pictures utterly in the spirit of Socialist Realism. Certainly he was one of the very few who didn't do it for opportunistic reasons. In opposition to most of the Polish artists he was anti-Western oriented. "Here and now" was his creed. It meant that artists should help in the creation of the New History through their art. Being young and idealistic, he did not realize the danger of the trap and became a victim of his convictions. Rejected by the communists as too "formalistic", despised by some in artistic circles, he died prematurely after Gomulka's "thaw" in 1956" when the Socialist Realism was already over. The circumstances of his death have remained vague (suicide?).Paradoxically, Wroblewski became later a kind of a master for many younger artists opposing the totalitarian system. The Wprost group from Cracow was one that opted for concrete and expressive art, not "modern" but "contemporary" a record of time and place, of the Polish "here and now." Their program was not so much concerned with aesthetics as with ethics. Art was to stem the tide of schizophrenia in life and the language, to unveil the duplicity of thought, to call things by their proper name: DIRECTLY (the adverb "Wprost" means "directly," "frankly." To expose the lies of propaganda the Wprost group appropriated such idiom. The sociological, journalistic style of the Group often contained references to Christianity. "Hallowed iconographic motifs crucifixions, adorations, and lamentations were brought down to street level." (Czerni)The group was established as early as 1965 in Cracow as a response to the first exhibition in the Krzysztofory Gallery myself and two of my friends. That doesn't change the fact that we respect each other and could take part in a sharp discussion rather than a fight. We have always been the adversaries, never the enemies!Polonia by Leszek Sobocki, 1982Leszek Sobocki (born 1932) is, in my opinion, the most interesting member of wprost. His self-centered and romantic art, paring down its narration to expressive, theatrical gestures, was a meditation on the state of art and role of the artist in hard times. His paintings, especially to his self-portraits of symbolic patriotic meaning, frequently refer in a direct way to Jacek Malczewski whom he adored. In his famous self portrait entitled It's Suffocating Here, commenting of the overwhelming reality of the communist dictatorship, Sobocki wears Malczewski's hat. Sobocki also represented the famous patriotic icons. Polonia with hands pinioned with red band has definitely its roots in Matejko and Arthur Grottgen, another famous nineteenth century painter.Martial law of 13 December 1981 was a time of repression and depression, yet it also proved to be a period of increased creativity. The intense and diverse independent movement of the Eighties was a sociological phenomenon on an unprecedented scale. Exhibitions, productions, discussions held under the aegis of the Catholic Church elicited considerable response, satisfying an obvious need of the public which instinctively sought refuge and consolidation in solitary resistance. The return of art to consecrated space and of artists to legible symbolism was termed a "homecoming", though looking back, it is evident that a large part of the paintings done at the time were nothing more (or less?) than a record of the period and the emotions it aroused. That art successfully performed a compensatory and therapeutic function. The literal pathos of its iconography was a faithful rendering of the contemporary state of mind and the attributes of oppression such as bars and torn flags as well as the shrouds, floral crossed and broken loaves.The bad quality and naivete of most of such art works were often criticized. Warsaw's Grzegorz Kowalski, a prominent artist of the independent scene recalled: "Under martial law we were part of society. That's just the fate of the Polish artist. I think that nowhere in the world will you find such resonance, such shared responsibility for national identity. It's a prerequisite of living here, and it's a curse because of the way it constrains us. When society expects emblems, symbols and empathy, can you imagine art just going on turning its back on it? We found ourselves in an anachronous situation: second and first rate artists together in the churches playing the role of Matejkos, Grottgers and Malczewskis!! In some damn European Grand Guignol (famous French puppet theater of atrocities) fate typecast Poles as a victim! Those artists that kept their distance were sidelined because they had much to offer. Their independence proved empty somehow." Kowalski used Matejko's Stanczyk for his composition Solitaire in 1985, but in 1995 made the new part of the diptych entitled Rerun. He made well-known Warsaw artists his protagonists. They have donned the fool's red garb an with their suggestive gestures paraphrase the figures populating Matejko's historical canvases: doomed national heroes, prophets and court jesters. The jester's motley recalls Matejko's heritage. For Matejko is not tantamount to the idea of art as a political mission and its romantic identification with the nation; he also saw the artist as a fool, guided by a spirit of contradiction, a symbol of truth proclaimed against the mainstream and the environment. (Piotrowski)) The work is a bitter comment on some behaviors in the new political situation.Cracow's Tadeusz Kantor (1915-1990) "can be placed among the select group of the twentieth century's most influential theater practitioners. His work with the Cricot 2 company and his theories of theater have not only challenged but have also expanded the boundaries of traditional and non-traditional theater forms." (Kobialka) Let us say, many critics and theoreticians seem not to see it, the boundaries of traditional and non-traditional painting forms as the painting was almost always starting point of all Kantor' s activities. Knowing Kantor and his wife personally and listening to him frequently I want to strongly emphasize that fact.As one might call Matejko "a theater director on canvas," Kantor can be named "a painter on the stage." Kantor is know as "a living seismograph" responding to all the most current artistic events all around the world, continually renewed his battle for modernity. No Polish artist but has managed to give the myths, stereotypes, fears and expectations that inhabit the collective imagination such a universal form as Tadeusz Kantor in his "Theater of Death" as he called it himself- beginning with The Dead Class (1975) to his last production Today Is My Birthday. There was a time when he &truggled with Matejko, Wyspianski, and Malczewski, ascending the heights marked out by the national sages and then breaking free of them with the skill of a magician, uniting the roles of the artist as priest and jester. But let's allow Tadeusz Kantor to speak for himself:Wyspianski's fatherland layin the depth of his heart, but he did not wave his word that was sacred to him like a banner.He branded his countrymen for a phenomenon known today:whatsoever he did they did with "Poland" on their lips.He was brave as hell because when he branded them his attitude hada justifiable rationale when patriotism was the only weapon for rescuing the national existencefrom the ruthless indifference and crimesof the Great of this World. greatnessnot such as derives from the triumph of life and thrones, trumpets and drums, the roar of the mobgala costumeswe know that kind -but greatness in the face of death -this was Wyspianski's discovery.Shortly before his death Kantor painted a big picture, September 1939 Defeat. The painting, of a soldier crucified against a map of pre-war Poland, became a messianic manifesto, illustrating the unchanging destiny of the Pole and his duties to God and Country. The painting is now property of the Cracow Branch of World Association of the Soldiers of AK (Home Army Resistance),.
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