Unknown Siberia: Siberia in Polish | What does history leave out? Urszula Pawlik
In the next program in the series "What History Is Silent About?" #ocmh, Urszula Pawlik will talk about Siberia, which has almost always had a negative connotation. It was there that Poles were sent, those who participated in uprisings or opposed the Tsar. It was there, after World War II, that thousands of Poles were exiled to hard labor. But few people know that it was Poles who conquered, explored, and built all of Siberia. They tamed the wilderness and adapted to the harsh conditions.
The book "Siberia Po Polsku" (Polish Style of Siberia) has just been published, in which the author, Sławomir Koper, describes how Poles—enterprising, educated, and curious about the world—achieved this feat. This includes, among other things, The story of a small Polish state in Siberia called Almazin, the birth of Przewalski's horse, the writer and traveler Ferdinand Ossendowski, and the enormous treasure of Baron von Ungern-Sternberg, also known as the "Bloody Baron," and his search for it. Urszula Pawlik and Marek Mierzwiak discuss this Siberian phenomenon.
Book: Sławomir Koper, "Siberia Po Polskisku" (Siberia in Polish).
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