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Mr Jacek Jaśkowiak, mayor of Poznań prepared an exclusive statement for EIOCO on the 65th anniversary of Poznań uprising. By Beata Bruggeman-Sekowska Statement of the Mayor of Poznań Mr Jacek Jaśkowiak On June 28, 1956, the road to freedom began in Poznań. Workers from Poznań factories took to the streets […]
By Beata Bruggeman-Sekowska 65 years ago on the 28 June of 1956, at 6 a.m. Poznań ( city in the western part of Poland) riots started at the multifactory complex of Joseph’s Stalin’s (or ‘Cegielski’s) Metal Industries. Approximately 100,000 people gathered in the city centre near the local Ministry of Public Security building demanding better […]
Review of: Raymond Aron, The Opium of the Intellectuals (1st publication in French, 1955) Patrick van Schie Nowhere in Western Europe have intellectuals been so fascinated by communism and the Soviet Union as in France. It was therefore appropriate that 65 years ago – in 1955, in the midst of the Cold War – […]
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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