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Education in the Second Polish Republic, which existed prior World War II was limited. According to official statistics of the time, the number of children who did not attend school in the 1935-1936 school year was 600,000 out of a total of 5,143,100 children of school age. In the 1937-1938 year only 127,100 finished seventh grade, and only ...
The Katyn massacre [a] was a series of mass executions of nearly 22,000 Polish military officers and intelligentsia prisoners of war carried out by the Soviet Union, specifically the NKVD ("People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs", the Soviet secret police) in April and May 1940. Though the killings also occurred in the Kalinin and Kharkiv ...
Polish Teachers' Union. Polish Teachers' Union ( Polish: Związek Nauczycielstwa Polskiego, ZNP, also translated as Union of Polish Teachers, [1] Polish Teachers' Association, Association of Polish Teachers [2]) is the largest Polish trade union for teachers and educators [3] and their largest professional association. [4]
Neville Chamberlain. Arthur Neville Chamberlain FRS ( / ˈtʃeɪmbərlɪn /; 18 March 1869 – 9 November 1940) was a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from May 1937 to May 1940 and Leader of the Conservative Party from May 1937 to October 1940. He is best known for his foreign policy of appeasement, and in ...
History of Poland. during 1939–1945. v. t. e. During World War II in Poland, education often took place underground. Secretly conducted education prepared scholars and workers for the postwar reconstruction of Poland and countered German and Soviet threats to eradicate Polish culture .
Education in Poland is compulsory; every child must receive education from when they are 6 years old until they are 18 years old. [1] It is also mandatory for 6-year-old children to receive one year of kindergarten ( Polish: przedszkole, literally pre-school) education, before starting primary school ( Polish: szkoła podstawowa) at 6 years old ...
Pioneer movement. Young Pioneers at a Young Pioneer camp in Kazakh SSR. A pioneer movement is an organization for children operated by a communist party. Typically children enter into the organization in elementary school and continue until adolescence. The adolescents then typically join the Young Communist League.
Union of Polish Patriots ( Society of Polish Patriots, Polish: Związek Patriotów Polskich, ZPP, Russian: Союз Польских Патриотов, СПП) was a political body created by Polish communists in the Soviet Union in 1943. The ZPP, unofficially controlled and directed by Joseph Stalin, became one of the founding structures of ...