Portal:Poland/Did you know/50


 * ... that Polish philosopher Józef Kalasanty Szaniawski (pictured) began as an advocate for restoring Poland's independence but ended as a high government official in Russian Poland – and an enemy of philosophy?
 * ... that the 1988 Polish strikes shook the country's Communist regime to such an extent that it was forced to begin talks on relegalization of Solidarity?
 * ... that the Black Procession of Polish burghers in 1789 resulted in the passage of the belated major urban reform in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth?
 * ... that Operation Antyk was the Polish Underground State's anti-communist propaganda department?
 * ... that Jan Władysław Dawid was a lecturer at the Flying University in Warsaw?