03.05 - Constitution Day! Painting: Jan Matejko, Constitution of 3 May, 1791, 1891. Foreground: King Stanisław August (left) enters St John’s Collegiate Church where deputies will swear to uphold the Constitution. Background: the Royal Castle where the Constitution has just been adopted.
■ Constitution of May 3, 1791 is considered one of the most important achievements in the history of Poland. Historian Norman Davies calls it “the first constitution of its type in Europe”; other scholars also refer to it as the world’s second oldest constitution.
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Gdansk Mayor Dies After Poland’s First Political Assassination Since The End Of Communism
The outspoken liberal mayor of the northern Polish city of Gdańsk, Paweł Adamowicz, died today after being stabbed on stage in front of thousands of people during a charity concert.
Video footage of the incident shows the assailant addressing the crowd from a microphone on the stage. He is reported as saying:
“Hello! Hello! My name is Stefan. I sat innocent in prison, I sat innocent in prison. Civic Platform tortured me, and that’s why Adamowicz is dead.”
The suspect, who was released from prison last month after serving a sentence for bank robberies, was immediately detained.
According to police sources quoted by Polish news broadcaster TVN24, the assailant is understood to have been planning the attack for some time.
Adamowicz was a powerful liberal voice in a country that has been governed by the rightwing Law and Justice party since 2015. He is best known in Poland and internationally as a staunch supporter of LGBT rights and the rights of migrants and refugees during a period of rising anti-migrant sentiment.
“I am a European so my nature is to be open,” Adamowicz told the Guardian in 2016.
This is the first assassination of a high-ranking Polish politician, while in office, since communism ended in 1989.
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Leshy, Poland
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Ok if I’d see this in the woods you’d see me RUUUUUNNING
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Portrait of a little nurse during the Warsaw Uprising. Warsaw, Poland, 1944.
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Young Polish resistance fighters in Warsaw Uprising, Poland, 1944.
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Photo Album: August 1, 1944 Warsaw Uprising
■ The Warsaw Uprising was a major World War II operation by the Polish resistance Home Army to liberate Warsaw from Nazi Germany. The Uprising was timed to coincide with the Soviet Union’s Red Army approaching the eastern suburbs of the city and the retreat of German forces.
■ Although the exact number of casualties remains unknown, it is estimated that about 16,000 members of the Polish resistance were killed and about 6,000 badly wounded. In addition, between 150,000 and 200,000 Polish civilians died, mostly from mass executions.
■ During the urban combat approximately 25% of Warsaw’s buildings were destroyed. Following the surrender of Polish forces, German troops systematically levelled another 35% of the city block by block. Together with earlier damage suffered in the 1939 invasion of Poland and the Warsaw Ghetto Uprisingin 1943, over 85% of the city was destroyed by January 1945, when the course of the events in the Eastern Front forced the Germans to abandon the city.
Jan Matejko’s painting ‘Hołd pruski 1525’ (’Prussian Homage’) made alive in Kraków.
The team of actors recreated the scene painted by the artist Jan Matejko in late 19th century. The painting depicts the artist’s allegorical vision of a significant historical event from the Polish history when the Prussian Duke paid homage and swore allegiance to the Polish king Zygmunt (Sigismund) I the Old. The real event took place in 1525 on the Kraków’s Main Square. At that time Kraków was the Polish capital city.
Photos by E. Marchewka / via Krakow Experience.
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