open cities: gdansk

How mono-ethnic is Poland?

The tradition of a mono-ethnic Poland is relatively new, and it has two main contributors—Hitler and Stalin...
Turning Muslims Away, Poland Welcomes Ukrainians - WSJ

Interwar Poland was a multiethnic state despite the official rhetoric promoting its image to be that of a monoethnic nation-state. According to the 1931 census, national minorities accounted for thirty-one per cent of Poland’s population of thirty-two million (that is, almost ten million). However, a recent reassessment of this apparently massaged number sets the figure at 35.4 per cent (that is, over eleven million) (Chałupczak, 1998: 22; Tomaszewski, 1985: 31-51). In a nutshell, ethnic Poles constituted two-thirds of the population while the national minorities – the remaining one-third.
Kamusella: Polish Minorities

Looking at today:
Poland's Hidden MulticulturalismThe conspiracy theorists who have taken over Poland | Christian Davies | World news | The Guardian
Opinion | Poland Digs Itself a Memory Hole - The New York Times

And there's been a big bust-up in Gdansk:
Open House in Gdansk

After the killing of its mayor:
The murder of Gdansk mayor Paweł Adamowicz reflects Poland’s increasingly toxic political climate
‘We feel orphaned’: Polish city mourns Paweł Adamowicz | World news | The Guardian
2019 Foretells Political and Social Turmoil in Poland | Jewish Culture | Hamodia

Much of this has to do with how we remember our history:
Charlottesville: The ideological battle dividing the world is perfectly illustrated by this fight over a Polish museum — Quartz

And it's very much in the news now:
The populist rewriting of Polish history is a warning to us all | Estera Flieger | Opinion | The Guardian

As are other museums:
Poland's Ministry of Culture Again Accused of Trying to Control Progressive Institution
Poland’s Ruling Party Puts an Extraordinary Museum of Polish-Jewish History Into Limbo | The New Yorker

Within the context of remembering the outbreak of the last war:
WW2 commemorations expose differences at heart of Europe | World news | The Guardian

It's a beautiful, open city:



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Gdansk Waterfront | Gdansk Poland - 09/12/2017 | Charlie Jackson ...
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