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Did you know
... that the last Polish
red zlotys
(example pictured)
were known as "insurgent ducats", produced at the
Warsaw mint
in 1831, on the eve of the
November Uprising
?
... that one of the leaders of the
Kraków Uprising
in 1846 was killed while leading a
religious procession
?
... that
the statue of General Casimir Pulaski
in
Washington, D.C.
, was sculpted by
Kazimierz Chodziński
?
... that
Polish postmodernism
met with severe impediments not so much from the communist establishment as from
Solidarity
and the
Catholic Church
?