The Historian who fell in love with Poland
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- Опубликовано: 31 окт 2019
- Historian Alexandra Richie visited Poland for the first time in 1985. The spirit of open defiance of communism blew her away.
Discover the personal story of one of Poland's best English-language historians, author of the book on the Warsaw Uprising, 'Warsaw 1944.'
'Writing the book was very very difficult,' she says, 'You take on some of the horror of what people have experienced. There were many occasions when I had to take a break from it all.'
Warsaw 1944 remains our host Patrick Ney's top recommended book on the Warsaw Uprising and looks at the battle from the German perspective of Hitler and Himmler.
Alex Richie reveals exclusively the new books she's writing on Polish history and her hopes for her 2 daughters in the future.
'The dynamism, the history, the spirit of the people - Warsaw is my favourite place in Poland.'
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Wystarczy dobrze poznać historię Polski a już się w Polsce zakochujemy. Tak to niezwykły kraj, który wymaga od nas szczerości.
Świetny wywiad i znakomity gość. Dawno tak nie skupiałem się, żeby usłyszeć i nie ominąć nic z wypowiedzi Pani Aleksandry. Berlin i Warszawa to miasta z bardzo bolesną i ciekawą przeszłością a duch czuje się od razu. Pozdrawiam.
Very interesting interview, thank you.
Thanks!
Poland always was dubbed as 'funniest barrack in Soviet gulag' or 'raddish' - red only in the surface. Since 13 of December 1981 we knew that it was the very end of communism in Poland because the regime power relied only on arms and repressions. We had no guns but we fought against with words of true, with our virtues of freedom fighters, and with vast tradition and experience inherited from Home Army. So it is not coincidence that Poland first left soviet block and gave an exaple to other countries.
AMazing interview and very interesting. Btw as Polish speaking Polish fluently, any other language of the World seems to me easy, but I still practice my English, it's still difficult pronunciation, so it's additional benefit form listening this interview. Best regards :)
P.S. I hope these books by this Lady are possible to buy in Poland
Thanks a lot, great interview. Best regards.
GREAT regards from Radom!
No disrespect Patrick but I'm finding this funny (sarcasm alert !!!), that foreigner who fall in love with Poland did more to promote this country than people who actually should be doing that. Keep up the good work mate !!! My fellow countrymen Patrick Ney.
Very interesting
I'll just leave it here.
Your show named Heart of Poland seems like it's mostly done in Warsaw (hence the name), but I would love to see you do an episode in Silesia, maybe Katowice and name it Lungs of Poland, maybe for April 1st
Przydały się napisy po polsku
Lern Inglisz
napisy po polsku proszę Patryk
Overly interesting interview. But... I was somewhat put away by her simplistic, one dimensional answer to the question about the sense of togetherness during the communistic period that seems to be disappearing nowadays. "If you can drink with your friends till 5am, but can't make a career, SO WHAT?" First of all, she is equating sense of togetherness with drinking and parting. Big mistake, since it was so much more than that. Second of all: is having a career such an obvious higher value? Well, I grew up in Poland. Spend 30 years there, through 70s-90s. Now I've been living in the US for over 20 years and can easily flip her answer around: I have a life and money now, SO WHAT? And thirdly, just wonder, if someone who is so captured by certain ideological ideas that it takes her a second to brash away very sound but uncomfortable, opposite view, can be a truly good historian?
Well said.
And the truth is a career laddder existed back then, but it doesn't exist today.
Namnożyło się ludzi na etacie "historyka", a to co robią tak naprawdę jest manipulowaniem historią. Wśród nich są ludzie głoszący, że uwielbiają Polskę. Hmm...
Szkoda ze chocoasz nie ma napisow po polsku
This war does not help your channel. But it gets through, one way or another.
I meant: thank you.
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Loyal Canadian is she remember what Trudeau did to people during pandemic time
Każdy normalny Polak: Po kiego ktoś z Zachodu chce tutaj mieszkać? 😂😂😂
Poland always was dubbed as 'funniest barrack in Soviet gulag' or 'raddish' - red only in the surface. Since 13 of December 1981 we knew that it was the very end of communism in Poland because the regime power relied only on arms and repressions. We had no guns but we fought against with words of true, with our virtues of freedom fighters, and with vast tradition and experience inherited from Home Army. So it is not coincidence that Poland first left soviet block and gave an exaple to other countries.