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Buy “Przekrój”, Sir
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Buy “Przekrój”, Sir

This cover could be a work by Terry Gilliam of Monty Python fame. It is a more polite version of the same style – conservative pen strokes, psychedelic colours and subversive content. “Advertise in Przekrój” – meet 1991 again, with us!
Ewa Pawlik
I Catch Joy from the Air
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I Catch Joy from the Air

Inhaling fresh air is about much more than living! One of our authors shares his thoughts on breathing in this article from the 1963 edition of “Przekrój”.
Jan Stoberski
The Pet ‘Kittens’
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The Pet ‘Kittens’

For much of its existence, “Przekrój” featured fashion photos of young models on its covers. We run through the history of the so-called ‘kittens’, and close a chapter that belongs to a bygone era.
Ewa Pawlik
Professor Tutka Was a Journalist
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Fiction

Professor Tutka Was a Journalist

Professor Tutka – the fictional invention of the Polish writer Jerzy Szaniawski – was a popular character among “Przekrój” readers. Read the first story in the series, from 1949.
Jerzy Szaniawski
The Rojek Sisters Go to Camp
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The Rojek Sisters Go to Camp

The Rojek Sisters column was published in “Przekrój” from 1962 until 1967. We present you with a 1963 article from this series.
The Rojek Sisters
Coffee Was Discovered by Goats
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Good Food

Coffee Was Discovered by Goats

The new drug, coffee, began its triumphant march to the West in the 15th century. Here's the story of this journey – a vintage articles from our archives, "Przekrój" 1949.
Marian Dienstl-Dąbrowa
Mysteries of the Yogis
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Wellbeing

Mysteries of the Yogis

Already in 1959, “Przekrój” was praising yoga as “an entire science of maintaining health and longevity”. Find out how yoga was presented in the Soviet weekly “Knowledge is Power”.
Mikołaj Kuplowski
Lessons in Detachment with Szaszkiewiczowa
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Lessons in Detachment with Szaszkiewiczowa

At the ripe old age of 96, Poland’s oldest blogger describes the art of sarcasm and scathing comebacks.
Irena „Kika” Szaszkiewiczowa
Picasso, Communism, and a Sheepskin Coat
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Picasso, Communism, and a Sheepskin Coat

In 1948, Pablo Picasso arrived in Poland and quickly struck up a fruitful friendship with the “Przekrój” editor-in-chief.
Ewa Pawlik