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PM tells media owner to not ‘twist the truth’ over 1920 Battle of Warsaw

PM Morawiecki told the head of Axel Springer in Poland that ‘no one is allowed to relativize history’ and ‘we cannot allow the true picture of this war to be distorted.’ Paweł Supernak/PAP

In response to articles appearing in Newsweek and the Onet news portal recalling the memories of a Red Army doctor held in a POW camp which he describes as ‘hell on earth’, in a three-page letter to the CEO of Ringier Axel Springer Media, Morawiecki said that ‘no one is allowed to relativize history’ and ‘we cannot allow the true picture of this war to be distorted.’

Telling the world about the Battle of Warsaw

Historians plan to publicise a key battle in European history, which is still little known outside Poland.

On 100th anniversary of the Battle of Warsaw, TFN’s Stuart Dowell looks back at the ‘battle that saved Europe’

The battle’s importance for Poland and the rest of Europe cannot be overstated. According to British diplomat Lord Edgar Vincent d’Abernon it is 18th in the list of the most important battles in the history of the world, ahead of the Battle of Stalingrad and the Battle of Midway.

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Lower house adopts resolution commemorating Battle of Warsaw

The Polish Sejm (lower house) adopted on Wednesday a resolution commemorating the 100th anniversary of the Battle of Warsaw, in which Polish forces halted the westwards-advancing Red Army. The battle was the turning point of the 1919-1921 Polish-Bolshevik War.

Webber unravels incredible story of a Bolshevik-fighting polar bear adopted by Polish battalion

​Whilst strolling around an old fort in Modlin, Webber encounters the little-known story of a Baśka Murmańska, a polar bear adopted by a Polish battalion that had been fighting the Bolsheviks in Northern Russia.​

Today marks centenary of when Poles seized back Kyiv from Bolsheviks

With the threat from Soviet Russia very real, Józef Piłsudski’s bold excursion deep towards the east was part of his grand idea to create a military and political alliance, a buffer of independent countries allied with Poland, including Lithuania, Belarus and Ukraine.

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Stylish new dental practice that looks like a café is guaranteed to put a smile on your face

With furniture including armchairs, chandeliers, a raised “common table” with barstools and an island with a coffee machine and even a shelf of books, the interior by Warsaw-based Piotrowscy Design is aimed at calming patients’ nerves by removing the typical cold, clinical interiors of traditional dentists.

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