They say that when the construction of the famous Villa Savoye was completed in 1931, the owners shortly after, angrily notified Le Corbusier to go there as soon as possible, because the roof had begun to leak after the first rain that had fallen since the work was delivered. Indeed, the architect a
When it comes to gold, no one can be trusted. Poles found out about it during World War II, trying to find a safe hiding place for the national treasure. Even their closest allies stretched out their hands for tens of tons of reserves of the precious metal. Fortunately, not very skilfully. When
Anyone who grew up in the 1970s or 1980s probably remembers the widespread threat of nuclear attacks by the imperialist west. Not a day went by without television showing films of test nuclear explosions and maps presenting plans for an attack on the Polish Peoples Republic. Raised in the shadow of
Soviet cleanup after September 17, 1939 on the so-called Borderlands are rightly associated with deportations to the East and other repressions against Poles. However, on the other hand, Lviv was the only center of Polish science and culture in the territory of the Second Polish Republic. There were