Who stole Poland?

 Now this is a programme I will be listening to today.

Obliterated from the map. The Invention of...Poland Episode 1 of 3, BBC Radio 4.*

Church of the Holy Cross in Warsaw, 1778

“Long before Putin tried it on, long before the Soviet Union as well, Ukraine was controlled by somebody else - the old Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. In the first of a new series, Misha Glenny and Miles Warde travel to eastern Poland to find out more.

It's a tale of terrifying power politics, when an ancient European kingdom was sliced up like a cake. Beginning in Krakow, they travel by train and tiny bus in an arc around the south east to the Renaissance city of Zamosc, near the border with Ukraine.

With contributions from Norman Davies, Adam Zamoyski, Professor Natalia Nowakowska, Bartek Ziobro of Krakow Explorers and Olesya Khromeychuk of the Ukrainian Institute in London.

Official Coat of Arms of Poland

This is the latest in the How to Invent a Country podcast series which has previously travelled to Germany, the USA, Scandinavia and Brazil.Presenter Misha Glenny is a former BBC Central European correspondent and the author of McMafia.

Produced for BBC Audio in Bristol by Miles Warde"

And more Polish stories by following the link.

Pictures; Church of the Holy Cross in Warsaw, 1778,Bernardo Bellotto, and Polish - Lithuanian Commonwealth at its greatest extent in years 1619 - 1621, 2018, Praca własna na podstawie, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Poland-Lithuania_1714.svg  author Tonhar,  licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license and official Coat of Arms of Poland

* Obliterated from the map. The Invention of...Poland Episode 1 of 3, https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0015v82

**Poland, https://chorltonhistory.blogspot.com/search/label/Poland