User:Volunteer Marek/Other articles

Here are some articles I created which I didn't DYK either because I didn't know such a project existed, got lazy, forgot, missed a deadline or plain didn't feel like it. These articles are the ones that I, personally, think are half way decent or on important topics.

World War II stuff

 * Home Army and V1 and V2 - first ever article I wrote back in ... 2005? It's about the Home Army and V1 and V2.


 * Stanisław Aronson - Home Army soldier, member of Kedyw, Lt. Col. in the Israeli Defense Force and a veteran of the Israeli War of Independence, the Yom Kippur War and the 1982 Lebanon War.


 * Warsaw Cross of the Uprising - former Polish military decoration honoring the participants of the Warsaw Uprising. The commies didn't get around to establishing it until 1981, it was discontinued in 1999 probably due to too much commie baggage.


 * Częstochowa Ghetto


 * Henryk Flame - soldier in first the Home Army, later, after the war in the anti-communist organization NSZ (pretty right wing). Particularly hated by authorities because he openly staged a military parade as a big middle finger to the communists. This one was like half an edit from a DYK but ... went on vacation.


 * Franciszek Niepokólczycki - more Polish Cursed soldiers of the Anti-Nazi and Anti-Commie resistance. Had a widely publicized show trial.


 * Józef Kuraś - pretty controversial guy, even in today's Poland. Hero? Bandit? A bit of both?


 * Zdzisław Broński - more Polish Cursed soldiers. Didn't have time to source this one by the deadline. He was the commander of the last Cursed soldier ever Józef Franczak, who staid "in the forest" until 1963. Nineteen freakin' sixty three!


 * Battle of Porytowe Wzgórze - largest battle between the Polish and Soviet partisans on one side (more often then not they fought each other) and the Germans on the other. I went on vacation and didn't have time to wikify or source it.


 * Amnesty of 1947 - fake "amnesty" that the Polish communist announced for soldiers of the anti-commie underground. Many revealed themselves, were then arrested, interrogated, tortured, imprisoned and executed. Broke the back of anti-Stalinist resistance in Poland.


 * Szczurowa massacre - murder of 93 Romani people during World War II by the Germans. Site of the the first memorial commemorating victims of the Romani Holocaust in the world.

Economics stuff

 * Diamond coconut model - wish I had time to fully ref this. Part of a reason for a Noble prize after all.


 * Growth Elasticity of Poverty - oh man, completely forgot about this one. Quite an importance concept - how much poverty can economic growth alleviate? Prolly should go wikify and de-orphan it.


 * Foster Greer Thorbecke poverty measure - so you know, like, the idea of poverty rate? This is a way better way to measure it.


 * Goodwin model - sometimes known as "Goodwin class struggle" model though there really ain't much "class struggle" in it. Just endogenous business cycle. Really neat model that's fun to work with. And completely unrealistic.


 * Richard M. Goodwin - the guy behind the Goodwin model above.


 * Luigi Pasinetti - probably the most notable living Post-keynesian economist. BTW, might as well mention it here that just because I create articles on some peoples, don't mean I agree with them or am in any way approving/disapproving of what they done. Just find them encyclopedic.

Other Polish/Eastern European stuff

 * Polska Roma and Bergitka Roma - again, wish I had time to fully ref and cite these because they are important topics.


 * Białystok pogrom - Tsarist organized pogrom.


 * Janusz Szpotański - a hilarious Polish satirist, of course, completely untranslatable. The Polish communist leader Władysław Gomułka, whom Szpotański satirized, referred to him in several of his official speeches, calling him "a man with a mentality of a pimp" and referring to his work as "reactionary doggerel" which "breathed with poisonous sadistic venom against our (communist) authority". So you know it was good stuff.


 * Student Committee of Solidarity