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Beata Bruggeman-Sekowska “We are not fascinated by the Polish People’s Republic, nor are we trying to recreate it. We are telling the story of people who, living in a world of permanent shortages and restrictions, had to find ways of responding to that reality. The music presented in the exhibition ‘What Are We Queuing Here […]
By Beata Bruggeman-Sekowska Grzegorz Przemyk (17 May 1964 – 14 May 1983) was an aspiring Polish poet whose untimely death became a powerful symbol of resistance against the Communist regime in Poland. His brutal killing at the hands of the Milicja Obywatelska (Citizens’ Militia) exposed the systemic violence and impunity of the communist authorities during […]
Review of Lea Ypi, Free. Coming of Age at the End of History, 978-0241481851, 313 pages. Patrick van Schie Lea Ypi is a curious girl full of questions. That may not be so special, but it is a challenging feature because she grew up in the eighties in Albania, which was then the […]
By Patrick van Schie On March 5, 1946, Winston Churchill gave a speech in Fulton, a city in Missouri, USA. The British war leader, Prime Minister until more than six months earlier, received an honorary doctorate from Westminster College in Fulton. He began his speech in a Churchillian way by saying that […]
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