40 years ago General Wojciech Jaruzelski introduced Martial State in Poland. This decision is still widely discussed today. For the opposition it was an obvious tragedy, the whole resistance movement, that managed to achieve some degree of Freedom (the months before 13 XII 1981 were later nicknamed “a Solidarity Carnival”), had been brutally stamped upon. […]
Author: Tomasz Oryński
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Hallelujah! It’s such a great time to be living in Poland now! Petrol, for example, is cheap like nowhere else in Europe. True, you might not feel it at the forecourt, as for the average salary a Polish person can buy only 700 liters of petrol (Czech: 800 and German, for example, 1800), but as […]
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It has been over 5 years since I started my “Zatimco v Absurdistane” series. Initially, it was to be just a one-off, but as I was fed up with writing about Polish politics: apart from being a columnist writing about Polish matters for one of the Scottish TV stations, I have been also writing some […]
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This week’s news were dominated by Donald Tusk losing his driving licence. He was stopped when driving over 100 km/h in a village – so in a place where speed limit is 50 km/h only. Michał Karnowski, an editor of a pro-government propaganda outlet is calling for him to step down from politics. This just […]
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As you might remember, PiS came to power claiming that Poland is ruled by privileged castes. Judges for example, were said to be privileged and acting against the interest of Poles. We have learned quickly that it is only used to harass those, who oppose PiS so-called judicial reforms, aiming to put the justice system […]
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Every week I am trying to write about some less important things happening in Poland so my readers don’t only follow politics but can also get a glimpse in everyday life in Poland. But so many important things are taking place that almost everyday I end up dropping them hoping I will be able to […]
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It seems Poland has it first Savita Halappanavar. A Polish lawyer informed on her twitter that in the case mirroring the Indian’ women ordeal in Ireland, an expecting mother died after the doctors refused to perform abortion on her in critical situation. They were waiting for the fetus’ heart to stop beating on its own […]
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Has the Smoleńsk crash become a cult or religion? If there were any doubts, there should be none after last Sunday. The opposition activists, who organized their counter-manifestation 200 meters further were arrested and charged with “malicious obstruction of a religious act”. QED Related posts: Meanwhile in Cuckooland 191 Meanwhile in Cuckooland 184 Meanwhile in […]
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You might remember that PiS came to power thanks to, amongst other things, a secret recording of the private conversations between politicians (see here). Those recordings, as we know today, were doctored and only those inconvenient to the politicians of the previous ruling party have been released. There was suspicion that Russia is involved in […]
FACT CHECK: Poland needs 120 000 drivers, so surely they must have even biggest shortages than Britain!
There is that map circulating the internet, used by Brexiters to show that driver shortages are nothing unusual across Europe, and thus the situation in Britain is not specific to this country only and, surely, it has nothing to do with Brexit. You can find that map for example in this Daily Mail article, for […]