Sarmatian Review - Articles

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The fate of General August Emil Fieldorf ("Nil") in Soviet-occupied Poland.(Sarmatian Review Data)(Brief article)

Sep 01, 2009; ... Underground title of General Nil in World War II Resistance movement: commander of anti-Nazi sabotage unit of the Polish Home Army. Subsequent fate: arrested by the Soviets under a false name after the end of the war, sentenced and sent to the Soviet Gulag, allowed to return to ...

Noncitizens in Germany.(Sarmatian Review Data)(Brief article)

Sep 01, 2009; ... Number of foreigners (noncitizens) in Germany in 2008: 7.2 million, including 1,688,000 Turks, 523,000 Italians, and 394,000 Poles. Percentage of Poles who declared in 2005 and 2008 that they like Germans: 44 percent and 29 percent. Percentage of Germans who ...

Neo-Nazism in Germany.(Sarmatian Review Data)(Brief article)

Sep 01, 2009; ... Number of crimes committed by persons associated with neo-Nazi movements in Germany in 2008: 20,500, an increase of 16 percent over 2007. Total number of aggressive and politically motivated ...

Neo-Nazism in Russia.(Sarmatian Review Data)(Brief article)

Sep 01, 2009; ... Estimated number of members of neo-Nazi organizations in Russia in 2009: 200,000. Number of hours during which the three-minute videotaped murder of two young men from the Caucasus remained available on Russian Internet in 2007:18. Means used by neo-Nazis to "fight ...

The seventh commandment.(Sarmatian Review Data)(Brief article)

Sep 01, 2009; ... Percentage of Russians willing to return the illegally occupied Kurile Islands to Japan: 4 percent. Those against: 89 ...

Changes at American universities.(Sarmatian Review Data)(Brief article)

Sep 01, 2009; ... Percentage of faculty at American universities hired on a part-time basis in 1975 and 2008: 30.2 percent and 50.3 percent, respectively. Percentage of tenured faculty in the same years: 36.5 percent and 21.3 percent; percentage of tenure-track faculty: 20.3 perceent and 9.9 ...

Gazprom's woes.(Sarmatian Review Data)(Brief article)

Sep 01, 2009; ... Decline in Gazprom's production of natural gas in April 2009 (compared to April 2008): 32 percent. Decline in Gazprom's production of natural gas in the first quarter of 2009 (compared to the last quarter of ...

East Germany's communist legacy.(Sarmatian Review Data)(Brief article)

Sep 01, 2009; ... Amount of money the German government spent modernizing East Germany between 2006-2008: 60 billion dollars. Productivity in East Germany in comparison to West Germany: 71 percent of the former western sector. Unemployment figures in former East Germany in comparison ...

Dr. Mengele was not alone.(Sarmatian Review Data)(Brief article)

Sep 01, 2009; ... Number of German physicians sentenced during the Nurenbeg trials for sadistic killings of prisoners: 13, including three university professors. Punishment meted out to them: three physicians were sentenced to death, three received life, one fifteen years, the remainder several ...

The more it changes.(Sarmatian Review Data)(Brief article)

Sep 01, 2009; ... Percentage of potatoes and vegetables consumed in Russia that have been produced on dacha plots in 2008: 90 percent and 75 percent, respectively. Percentage of land in ...

Rubbing it in.(Sarmatian Review Data)(Andrei Tumanov)(Brief article)

Sep 01, 2009; ... Andrei Tumanov, editor of Vashi 600 Sotok [Your 600 square meters], a gardening magazine: "It is this fraction of one percent of the ...

Noteworthy websites.(Website overview)(Brief article)

Sep 01, 2009; ... Polish News in English--perfect translations, relevant topics: http://www.thenews.pl. Kresy-Portal spolecznosci kresowej--for those expelled from Kresy after the second world war: http:/ /www.kresy.pl. In Polish. Kresy-Syberia Virtual Museum Project--emigre site by ...

Throwing Poland down a Memory Hole.(Our Take)

Sep 01, 2009; ... On 31 July 2009 Professor Zdzislaw Krasnodebski published in Rzeczpospolita an article about the ideological anti-Polishness in some intellectual circles of the United States and Western Europe. Among numerous examples Krasnodebski mentions the case of a Polish-born American scholar who ...

Poland and the euro.

Sep 01, 2009; Ryan, Leo V. ... In November 2008 the Tusk government announced a plan to adopt the euro by 2012, although the prime minister stated that, should adverse circumstances arise, the plan was open to "discussion" and possible delay. This decision was somewhat controversial since it not only required an ...

Harsh Vineyard: A History of Catholic Life in the Russian Far East, by Miroslava Igorevna Efimova.(Brief article)(Book review)

Sep 01, 2009; ... Harsh Vineyard: A History of Catholic Life in the Russian Far East, by Miroslava Igorevna Efimova. Translated by Geraldine H. Kelley. Victoria, BC: Trafford Publishing (www.trafford.com), 2008. xvii + 280 pages. Maps, tables of Catholic parishes in the Russian Far East. ISBN ...

Porwanie Europy, by Krzysztof Koehler.(Brief article)(Book review)

Sep 01, 2009; ... Porwanie Europy, by Krzysztof Koehler. Sopot: Tow. Przyjaciol Sopotu (www.topos.iq.pl), 2008. 47 pages. ISBN 978-83-61002-36-9. Paper. In Polish. Koehler's verbal skills grow with each volume of poetry. In this ...

Glaukopis. Pismo spoleczno-historyczne.(Book review)

Sep 01, 2009; ... Glaukopis. Pismo spoleczno-historyczne, nos. 13-14 (2009). Edited by Wojciech Jerzy Muszynski et al. <www.glaukopis.pl>. Mailing address: 02-518 Warsaw, ul. Kazimierzowska 79 m. 10, Poland. ISBN 17303419. 420 pages. In Polish. The phenomenon of Glaukopis deserves a pause. It is ...

Pe Ell's Polish Pioneers.(Pe Ell's Polish Heritage)(Brief article)(Book review)

Sep 01, 2009; ... Pe Ell's Polish Pioneers, by Leo E. Kowalski. San Pedro, CA: Gorham Printing (1700 Miracosta Street, San Pedro, CA 90732), 2007. 128 pages. Hardcover. $20.00 postpaid. Pe Ell's Polish heritage, by Leo E. Kowalski. San Pedro, CA: Gorham Printing (konnica@ca.rr.com), 2008. 255 ...

The paradoxes of the Paris Kultura: style and traditions of political thinking/Paradoksy paryskiej "Kultury": styl i tradycje myslenia politycznego.(Book review)

Sep 01, 2009; Urbanowski, Maciej ... Paradoksy paryskiej "Kultury" Styl i tradycje myslenia politycznego [The paradoxes of the Paris Kultura: style and traditions of political thinking] By Janusz Korek. 3rd revised edition. Katowice: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Alaskiego (www.wydawnictwo.us.edu.pl), 2008. 550 pages. ...

The burden of history? Group identity and history in East Central Europe: Belarus, Poland, Lithuania, Ukraine/Last der Geschichte? Kollektive Identitat und Geschichte in Ostmitteleuropa: Belarus, Polen, Litauen, Ukraine.(Book review)

Sep 01, 2009; Roddy, Harry Louis, Jr. ... Last der Geschichte? Kollektive Identitat und Geschichte in Ostmitteleuropa: Belarus, Polen, Litauen, Ukraine [The burden of history? Group identity and history in East Central Europe: Belarus, Poland, Lithuania, Ukraine] Edited by Zdzislaw Krasnodebski, Stefan Garsztecki, and ...