Kraków Fire of 1850

The Kraków Fire of 1850 started on 18 July and lasted several days. It is estimated to have destroyed about 10 percent of the city of Kraków, which was then part of the Austrian Empire's district of the Grand Duchy.

Kołłątaj's Forge

Kołłątaj's Forge was a group of social and political activists, publicists and writers from the period of the Great Sejm in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth

Kabaret TEY

Kabaret TEY was one of the most popular Polish cabarets in the 1970s and 1980s. Its main performers included Zenon Laskowik and Bohdan Smoleń

Temporary Commission of Confederated Independence Parties

The Temporary Coordinating Commission of Confederated Independence Parties formed on 10 November 1912 in the Austrian Partition on the eve of World War I. It was an alliance of Polish political parties from Galicia in Austro-Hungary and their paramilitary

Pod Egidą

Pod Egidą is a Polish satirical cabaret. It has been created in 1967 on the initiative of singer-songwriter Jan Pietrzak, and is still active. "Under the aegis" was a politically charged cliché in the Soviet Union dominated Eastern Europe

Self-Defence of Lithuania and Belarus (1918)

Self-Defence of Lithuania and Belarus were voluntary military formations created during the reconstitution of sovereign Poland towards the end of World War I in the Kresy macroregion, formerly the Western Krai of the Russian Empire. Self-Defence units

Defilada

Defilada is a Polish 1989 documentary by Andrzej Fidyk. It focused on the cult of personality in North Korea, and was shot in 1988 on the 40th anniversary of the state's founding by Kim Il-sung. Despite its anti-totalitarian message, it has received

Culture in the Polish People's Republic

After the end of the Second World War, Polish society and culture were subject to significant changes

Juliusz Leo

Juliusz Franciszek Leo was a Polish politician and academic from Kraków, Poland, while the city was part of the Austrian Empire, then Austria-Hungary. Leo was a professor of economics and law at Jagiellonian University, Kraków, the city's first deputy

Kabaret Starszych Panów

Kabaret Starszych Panów was a Polish satirical cabaret made for TV in the late 1950s to mid-1960s (1958–1966). Numerous leading actors and performers participated in its episodes. The hosts and producers were Jerzy Wasowski and Jeremi Przybora, the two

Jakub Landovský

Jakub Landovský, is a Czech politician, lawyer, and university pedagogue, who is currently an ambassador to NATO since 5 August 2019. He had served as the Deputy Minister of Defense from 2015 to 2019