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America – Poland’s Perfect Ally
America – Poland’s Perfect Ally

Author(s): Jadwiga Kiwerska
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences
Published by: Instytut Zachodni im. Zygmunta Wojciechowskiego

Summary/Abstract: The new Polish reality, which started to take shape after the breakthrough of 1989, entered the world of relations with the United States with incredibly positive baggage. America has traditionally occupied a special place in the Polish collective consciousness. It constituted the myth of a better, more affluent and ideal world. Throughout the decades successive generations of highlanders, peasants, the poor, as well as the representatives of the intelligentsia and aristocracy made their way across the Ocean and later sent letters home with a description of paradise.

  • Issue Year: 340/2012
  • Issue No: 00
  • Page Range: 229-240
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: English