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Fascinating new book of secret police surveillance photos reveals chilling Big Brother control methods

In one photo, agents spying on American military attaches from the US Embassy in Warsaw snap the officials in a car that has stopped in a forest. Dated 6 April, 1966, the photo is described as being taken during an ‘intelligence reconnaissance’ operation. Beata Bartecka and Łukasz Rusznica, from How To Look Natural in Photos

Compiled as a warning about today’s internet surveillance, the 150 never-before-seen photos cover a wide range of Poland’s communist secret police activities between 1944 and 1989 and reveal the sometimes drastic measures authorities took to keep ‘enemies of the state’ under control.

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Mythical superheroes led by ‘Pan Twardowski’ battle Covid-19 in new comic book aimed at showing importance of solidarity

Set in the fictional world of PanEuropa, the superheroes make their way across Poland and Europe to meet doctors and scientists as they combat the killer virus and fake news before finally tracking down “an insidious enemy who wants to use the situation to implement his evil plans.”

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Holocaust survivor tracks down family of Polish woman who saved her from WWII death camp with the help of Facebook

Aviva Landau was due to visit Poland from Israel this month for the first time since leaving just after the end of the war and was keen to contact the family of her rescuer she remembers as Anna. But all she had was an old address scribbled on the back of an envelope…

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