The village of Zalipie, near the town of
Dąbrowa Tarnowska in southeastern Poland, is known for its tradition of local women decorating their houses, farm buildings and other structures with brightly-colored floral motifs.
... that when confronted with an ethical dilemma, Celestyn Czaplic's(pictured) contemporaries asked themselves, "what would Czaplic think of that?"
... that the Zielony Balonik ("Green Balloon") literary cabaret of
Kraków was rumoured to be a place of "orgies, nude dancing and all manner of dissipation"?
Mieczysław Jagielski as painted on a commemorative mural
Mieczysław Jagielski (1924–1997) was a Polish politician and economist. During the times of the
People's Republic of Poland he was the last leading politician from the
former eastern regions of pre-
World War II Poland. Jagielski became a communist member of parliament in 1957 and he would continue to serve in that capacity for seven consecutive terms until 1985. In 1959, he was posted to be a member of the
Central Committee of the
Polish United Workers' Party and appointed
minister of agriculture. After he left the latter position in 1970, Jagielski became a
deputy prime minister, and the next year, a member of the
party's politburo. In August 1980, Jagielski represented the government during talks with striking workers in
Gdańsk. He negotiated the agreement which recognized the
Solidarity trade union as the first independent trade union within the
Eastern Bloc. In late July 1981, Jagielski was fired from the deputy premiership, reportedly because he failed to produce a recovery program for the economic crisis Poland was experiencing at that time. The same year, he renounced his membership in the politburo and in the Central Committee. (Full article...)