International Women’s Day: from socialist ideals to somber memories
Beata Bruggeman-SekowskaEvery year, International Women’s Day is celebrated worldwide, often seen as a positive day for women’s rig...
Katyn, Disinformation and Memory: a new article in De Militaire Spectator
De Militaire Spectator, the military-academic journal of the Netherlands Armed Forces — has published the article written by Beata Brug...
Katyn: erased but not forgotten
By Beata Bruggeman-SekowskaOn April 13, 1943, the whole world heard about the crime committed by the Soviets. On that day, the Germ...
Operation Priboi: A Dark Chapter in Baltic History
Beata Bruggeman-SekowskaOn this day, 76 years ago, the Baltic nations endured one of the most harrowing events of the Soviet era. I...
Ukraine: 1,000 Days of Resilience and Europe’s Future
Beata Bruggeman-SekowskaToday marks 1,000 days since Russia launched its large-scale invasion of Ukraine. This tragic milestone ser...
Putin is the only one who can break all the rules, he rules like Stalin
Totalitarian regimeNavalny hoped to survive totalitarianism. But whether his death mobilises the opposition? Russia is like the bru...
Russian Army Go Home
Lithuania supports Ukraine, photo © Honorary Consul of Lithuania in the Netherlands, Aloys Bruggeman RE RABeata Bruggeman-Sekowska
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Suffering in the Soviet Union around the death of Stalin
Patrick van SchieAfter having ruled the Soviet Union for more than a quarter of a century, Josef Stalin died seventy years ago, in ...
Maserati, Rolls Royce, Mercedes, Cadillac… a glimpse into comrade Brezhnev’s luxurious car choices
By Beata Bruggeman-SękowskaIt is 1980. Not far from Zavidovo, Soviet Republic. Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev is driving recklessly from hi...
Last doomed propaganda campaign of a dying communist regime
Interview with David Hill and Ilona Karwinska, directors of 'Neon Muzeum' in Warsaw, first and only museum of its kind in Europe about ...