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Showing posts with label Katyn Massacre. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Katyn Massacre. Show all posts

Friday, January 10, 2014

Our New Photo Series - Monuments to Faith and Freedom

Winter has its own, austere beauty, but  it is rarely captured well in photographs.  Therefore, Sunlit Uplands is putting aside for a few months its usual landscape photographs and today begins a new photo series on our masthead - the cathedrals, monuments and memorials built throughout the Anglosphere in honor of those who lived and died for God and country. 

The first one, The Katyń Memorial in Jersey City, New Jersey, is especially meaningful to me.  I lived near it for nearly 10 years.  Until the dastardly attack on the World Trade Center, the view of those towers across New York Harbor framed this memorial to another mass evil - the slaughter of 22,000 Polish military officers, police and intelligentsia at the hands of Soviet Secret Police.

As always, your photos and suggestions are welcome.



Tuesday, October 29, 2013

It Takes Heroic Poland – And the Truth About Katyn – To Show Us How Evil Communism Is



From The Telegraph
By Ed West

I'm an unashamed Polonophile. If you grew up in a certain kind of Irish-British Catholic household in the 1980s, Poland was a heroic and tragic fairytale kingdom that, having endured the neo-pagan Nazis, was now held captive by the godless Soviets – and yet maintained its faith, chivarly and honour.