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Beata Bruggeman-Sekowska Today Latvia celebrates the 30th anniversary of the restoration of its Independence. On 4 May 1990, the parliament in Riga decided that Latvia would break away from the Soviet Union and restore its independence, restore the inter-war Latvian state, re-instituting the Constitution of Latvia of 1922. Latvia had been part of the Soviet […]
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Beata Bruggeman-Sekowska April 9 marks in Georgia tragedy also referred to as Tbilisi Massacre, Tbilisi tragedy. Many Georgians gathered in Tbilisi on April 9th, 1989 during an anti-Soviet demonstration, as the culmination of weeks of demonstrations, protesting against separatism in the Georgian Black Sea region of Abkhazia and in support of Georgian independence, secession from the […]
Beata Bruggeman-Sekowska 80 years ago communist, soviet, Stalinist murderers committed one of the biggest crimes of the 20th century: Katyn Massacre. 22,000 citizens of the Republic of Poland, Polish military offices, policemen, intelligentsia were brutally murdered because they were ardent patriots. On April 3, 1940, from the camp in Kozielsk, which was one of […]
Beata Bruggeman-Sekowska On 11 March 1990, the Supreme Council of the Republic of Lithuania adopted an Act on the Restoration of an Independent State of Lithuania. All members of the Council signed the Act of Restoration. On this day Lithuania declared Independence from the USSR. The Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of […]
Beata Bruggeman-Sekowska Estonian people fought for their independence from the Russian Empire, from 1917 to 1920. The most significant day was February 24th, 1918, on which Estonia declared statehood, which is commemorated as a national holiday. Independence Day is a national holiday in Estonia marking the anniversary of the Estonian Declaration of Independence in 1918. […]
Rittmeister Witold Pilecki, a Polish Army officer and intelligence agent during WWII, the author of “Witold’s Report”, the first comprehensive Allied intelligence report on Auschwitz concentration camp and the Holocaust. General Emil Fieldorf “Nil”, Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Armia Krajowa (“Home Army”). Bolesław Kontrym, a Polish Army officer, a Home Army soldier, participant in the […]
Seventy-four years ago at a prison in Kurkowa Street in Gdańsk, the late father Marian Prusak, a parish priest been residing in Gdańsk in those days, gave Last Rites to merely seventeen year old Danuta Siedzikówna aka “Inka”, and the forty two year old Feliks Selmanowicz aka “Zagończyk”, soldiers from Major Zygmunt Szendzielarz “Lupaszka’s” […]
Beata Bruggeman-Sekowska History The Act of Reinstating Independence of Lithuania or Act of February 16 was signed by the Council of Lithuania on February 16, 1918, proclaiming the restoration of an independent State of Lithuania. The Council was chaired by Jonas Basanavičius. The Act formulated the basic constitutional principles that still apply in Lithuania. […]
Beata Bruggeman-Sekowska Events in Timisoara in mid December 1989 mark the begin of the Romanian Revolution which led to the death of the communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife Elena, the end of 42 years of Communist Rule in Romania, which was the last removal of a Marxist-Leninist government in a Warsaw pact […]
Beata Bruggeman-Sekowska The protest in the Wujek mine began 3 days after the introduction of martial law in Poland and receiving information that the head of the company’s Solidarity Jan Ludwiczak was arrested. The Pacification of Wujek on December 16, 1981 intended to break the Solidarity union after the introduction of martial law in Poland in 1981. Pro-Solidarity […]
Beata Bruggeman-Sekowska On December 13 1981 in the morning Polish people woke up in the new shocking reality caused by the totalitarian communist system. On the television they saw General Jaruzelski- Prime Minister and the First Secretary of The Party announcing: Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski seen ready in a TV studio to read a speech […]
Beata Bruggeman-Sekowska Interview with Ilze Burkovska Jacobsen, director of ‘’My favourite War’’ animated film about her life under communism. The premiere in Latvia of ‘’My favourite War’’ is planned in March 2020. Ilze Burkovska Jacobsen Beata Bruggeman-Sękowska: I watched fragments of your almost 80 minute animated documentary based on your life ’’My favourite […]
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