https://freerepublic.com/tag/itsassimpleasthat/ en-us Thu, 1 Feb 2024 01:14:21 GMT Focus Forum 15 https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/4214201/posts On this date in 1923, Polish nationalist painter Eligiusz Niewiadomski was executed for assassinating Poland’s first president. After more than a century under German, Austrian, and (most especially hated) Russian domination, Poland had established itself an independent republic in the first world war’s imperial wreckage. Niewiadomski (English Wikipedia entry | Polish), whose father had taken part in the 19th century’s anti-Russian January Uprising, was a talented painter with a serious nationalist streak. And that was really the done thing for his time and generation: his painting career from the 1890’s into the early 20th century maps the Young Poland movement... ExecutedToday.com https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/4214201/posts#comment Thu, 1 Feb 2024 01:14:21 GMT