What are quirks of your national education?

In Poland we have to learn to say by heart invocation from ,,Pan Tadeusz" book where we proclaim that Lithuania is our homeland. Furthermore we learn texts and songs describing beauty of Ukraine.
We also have complete obsession over failed uprising in education, where those succesful ones are often merely mentioned.
And we have to study a bit about how much poets Słowacki and Mickiewicz hated each other.
Lastly, our most important exam being end of high school exam ,,matura" has required passing from math, polish and english with polish one being pretty consistently a coin toss whether students will have to analyze fragments of ,,Lalka" (where main point of lessons is whether the protagonist is a positivist or romanticist) or ,,Pan Tadeusz" (where we have to understand how to interpret a whole page describing bigos stew as it can be important for said matura), to the point of it being a joke. Oh and of course people will reference Shrek and Star Wars as ,,other works of culture", a lifehack that even my friend has used describing a story of friendship that occured between Han Solo and Luke Skywalker.

Airplane photo of Saxon Palace with visible orthodox cathedral of St. Alexander Nevsky. Today only a section of the palace remains - Warsaw, 1919

Orthodox Cathedral of St. Alexander Nevsky Cathedral was built by russian empire near the dawn of XX century. With evacusation of russians during the succesful german advances during WW1 and germans later plundering the church it was chosen as not valuable nor historicaly significant enough to be kept while being the symbol of russian occupation. It was demolished by Poland in 1926, but mosaics were preserved and distributed among other orthodox churches within at the time polish borders.

Saxon Palace, which gets its name from saxon Wettin dynasty that once ruled the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, was destroyed by Germans as a wider punishment plan for Warsaw Uprising in 1944, as Hitler gave a personal order to raze the city. Remaining section of it was the one that at the time served and currently serves as the Tomb of The Unknown Soldier. Present plans and efforts to start rebuilding the palace are starting to gain traction.

u/Milosz0pl — 21 days ago

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Day after proclamation of martial law in Polish People's Republic, a photographer Chris Niedenthal took a photo of soldiers next to armoured transporter under Moscow cinema that was airing a movie ,,Apocalypse Now" [in polish title is ,,Time of Apocalypse"] - Warsaw, 13 December 1981

The photo became iconic in Poland as a showcase of the atmosphere at the time. It was ,,forbidden" to take photos like that so Chris Niedenthal took it while hiding in the distance in tenement house corridor, in order to both not be noticed and to cover camera's flash. Later, the photo got only printed after being transported to Berlin to Newsweek by a random foreign student that Chris asked to do so on a train station.

u/Milosz0pl — 23 days ago

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[Announcement] Read the World Winner - Poland

The Poland Read the World winner is....

Ferdydurke by Witold Gombrowicz

Nominated by u/miriel41

The first discussion will be in a few weeks.

Keep an eye on the sub for the reading schedule - coming soon. Time to get your copies ready, we will be seeing you all soon for our journey from North Macedonia to Poland.

The book that will be added to the Wheel of Books for the chance to become a Runner-up Read is;

The Doll by Bolesław Prus

Fans of Olga Tokarczuk do not despair, we heard you! The Books of Jacob gained a lot of interest and will be run later this year as a Mod Pick!

And finally....

The next Read the World destination will be Togo

So get your thinking caps on for that!

Will you be joining us in Poland?

Happy reading (the world) 📚🌍

u/Milosz0pl — 27 days ago

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Hi r/Poland, r/bookclub needs your help with literature from Poland. Please suggest us some of your favourite books to read from Poland

With permission from the mods

Hi everyone, I am looking for books from, or about Poland for our Read the World challenge over at r/bookclub. The book can be any length, and genre, but it must be set or partially set in Poland. Preferably the author should be from Poland, or at least currently residing in Poland or has been a resident of Poland in the past. I'm looking for the "if someone could only ever read one book from Poland which book should it be" type suggestions.

The book should be available in English

Thanks so much

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u/Milosz0pl — 2 months ago