As the world gazes into the future with a sense of uncertainty, let us take a moment to peer back into the distant past. The stars that came into existence at the dawn of the universe turn out to have been vastly different from those shining in today’s sky.
These days, we can hardly be certain of the future or even the present. So maybe we should seek comfort in one of the bygone eras? Preferably taking our thoughts back to times that we don’t actually remember so that we can relish them more easily. Perhaps the 1960s or 1970s? Granted, that’s tempting, but many people who witnessed those decades firsthand are still among us, after all, and they argue that things actually didn’t look so rosy back then, in Poland or elsewhere. So, maybe the interwar years? Let’s not be so naïve—back then, most people in Poland lived in poverty, and only the chosen few got to party in Warsaw’s famous Adria Café. What about the times of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth? Wrong, again. The shameless exploitation of peasants is a disgrace to that period, and the
