Questions tagged [poland]
for questions about claims based in Poland, or limited to Poland.
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Did Russia's parliament, Duma, propose invading Poland in 2022?
Twitter user @sentdefender, with >160K followers, recently tweeted
The Russian State Duma has proposed that after the Invasion of Ukraine, that Poland be Invaded and denazified next due to their ...
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Did Poland and Hungary withdraw from (i.e. fully denounce) the Convention on Early Notification of a Nuclear Accident?
Wikipedia says so (since 2013), and there's a list on IAEA website that seemingly backs that up... but it's not wholly clear what the list actually means (image/table cropped to Poland.)
Wikipedia's ...
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Was the Polish army the fifth largest in 1939?
In an Italian mini-series, Campi di Battaglia, in an episode about tanks, they claim that the Polish army ranked fifth worldwide just before the German invasion in 1939.
I think the claim refers to ...
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Is there any evidence of individual Jews participating in the Holocaust?
Poland recently passed new legislation which was followed by controversial comments by Prime Minister Morwiecki of Poland and resulted in a dispute with Israel:
What did Mr Morawiecki say in ...
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Did Polish government institutions collaborate with Nazis?
Referring to an answer to Why is Poland's proposed Holocaust speech law so controversial?
While "Poland as a nation" is not to blame for the Holocaust, and while there was no official cooperation ...
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Did the Polish birth rate soar because of a curfew imposed in the 1980s?
The Economist states:
Alternatively, jokes its president, Cezary Kazmierczak, it should cut
off power two nights a week to keep Poles at home in the evening. When
a curfew was imposed in the ...
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Did the future Prime Minister of Poland help the future president of USA to pay his tuition?
The Amazing Real Life Experiences tells a story about how the pianist Ignace Jan Paderewski did a favour for a student Herbert Hoover, and that later Hoover (in his role of head of the US Food and ...
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Did 150,000 people march against Muslim Immigration in Poland?
The following video was posted on the Facebook page of Milo Yiannopoulos.
The video has the following text:
150,000 MARCHED AGAINST MUSLIM IMMIGRATION IN POLAND
BUT THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA DID ...
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Has Jesus been declared the king of Poland?
Reportedly, Jesus Christ was declared the king of Poland in November 2016 following a vote by their parliament. I've seen such reports in blogs and other such resources that are usually used as ...
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Are mass-bred chicken fed with hormones or other substances that, when you eat their meat, can have significant negative effect on your health? [closed]
My friend told me that chicken meat is unhealthy - presumably chicken are fed with hormones which can be unhealthy, as well as the meat could contain some added chemicals. My question applies to ...
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Did the No. 303 Polish Fighter Squadron score the most kills in the Battle of Britain?
It's often claimed in Polish media that No. 303 Polish Fighter Squadron scored the most kills in the whole Battle of Britain. This claim is repeated in Wikipedia, although with annotation [citation ...
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