Poland in the Council of Europe

The creation of “Solidarity” is one of the most important events in the history of Poland and the world at the end of the 20th century. It became a moment that changed the essence of the Leninist system.

On 15 August 2020 we solemnly celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Battle of Warsaw – a culminating point of the Polish-Soviet War (1919-1920) and one of the most decisive events in the history of Poland, Europe, and the world.

To remind the events related to the 100th anniversary of the Battle of Warsaw, the Institute of National Remembrance invite to a virtual tour of the exhibition "The Polish-Soviet War. The Battle of Warsaw 1920".

On 7 July, during the Visegrad Group foreign ministers meeting in Wadowice, Minister Jacek Czaputowicz thanked his partners for visiting Karol Wojtyła’s home town. “It is very important in the context of the Pope’s 100th birthday anniversary,” said the chief of Polish diplomacy.

This is not the first time that the President of Russia is attempting to revive the Stalinist vision of modern history. It was created in the communist era by combining selective interpretations of facts, half-truths and propaganda. An image alternative to reality was constructed. The totalitarian Soviet Union was presented as a country of good intentions, a defender of peace and the security of nations, a noble conqueror of the German Reich. This kind of false vision of history was imposed as binding not only in the USSR but also in other countries enslaved by Moscow following World War II. At that time, revealing the truth about the actual role of the USSR in the history of the continent, about enslaving the people of Central and Eastern Europe, about Soviet crimes against peace, war crimes and crimes against humanity, was threatened with severe repression. It is surprising that today, in a free world, the Russian President is trying to promote theses which are almost a literal copy of the propaganda dating back to the era of Stalin and Brezhnev. He does so, in an article appearing in The National Interest.

Adopted on 3 May 1791 in Warsaw by the Sejm of the Polish Republic (later known as the Great Sejm), the Polish Constitution was Europe’s first and the world’s second modern constitution.

On 10 April 2010, a special TU-154M plane with the President of Poland Lech Kaczyński and the First Lady Maria Kaczyńska on board took off from Warsaw to Smolensk. On that very day the members of the official delegation were to participate in the ceremonies taking place in the Katyn War Cemetery, commemorating the 70th anniversary of the crime committed there. The aircraft carried 96 people, including members of the highest state authorities, representatives of various social circles and religious denominations, high-ranking military commanders and the plane’s crew. All the flight passengers died in the air disaster which took place during landing at the airport near Smolensk.

The President of Poland on the 75th Anniversary of Liberation of the Nazi German Death Camp KL Auschwitz.

“Poland has traditionally been interested in and committed to the promotion and protection of the rights of the child both internationally – at the UN, the Council of Europe and the European Union – and nationally,” emphasised Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Marcin Przydacz launching the 13th Warsaw Seminar titled “Rights of the Child in the Light of the European Convention on Human Rights.”