The beginning of the state sector in Polish agriculture is usually associated with the establishment of the State Agricultural Farms (Państwowe Gospodarstwa Rolne, PGR) in 1949. In reality, however, the creation of the state agricultural sector had already begun in 1946, with the formation of the State Land Estates (Państwowe Nieruchomości Ziemskie, PNZ). Their task…
ChatGPT powiedział: On a beautiful, sunny Friday, July 17, 1959, at 11:45 a.m., an IL-18 aircraft landed at the Goleniów airport near Szczecin, carrying the Prime Minister of the Soviet Union and First Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee, Nikita Khrushchev. This visit, along with the city visits by Pope John Paul II in…
Institutional Presence of the Southern Neighbor in Szczecin, 1945–1989 After 1945, Szczecin, as a Polish port, became an important component of Czechoslovakia’s economic infrastructure, particularly for maritime trade. The presence of the southern neighbor on the Oder took on an institutional and multi-faceted character — ranging from a free-trade zone in the port, through industrial…
“When I began dealing with the affairs of the Szczecin Land in the spring of 1945, I had just turned thirty-four. I had behind me a rather eventful life: imprisonment, the Bereza camp, emigration, service in the Soviet Army and the Polish Army. There had been enough time for my views, in the light of…
