"Jerzy" wrote in message ...
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Historical Poland has sounded like an instrument being played frequently
by "the wind of change".

"The wind of change is blowing through this continent."
--Harold Macmillan (3 February 1960, speech in Cape Town, South Africa)

Yet Poland has not been the only country with quite elastic boundaries.
And the Poles have not been the only people to make noises whenever they
have been squeezed too hard from the outside.

Elastic boundaries?
Yeah, the British Empire has really elastic boundaries.
Once the place where the sun never set on and nowadays only reminiscence of
it. :-)

Now that the sun has set on the British Empire, one no longer has to keep cool
by staying in the shade. :-)

After 1945, many Polish veterans of the Second World War decided to remain
in the United Kingdom instead of returning to live in their homeland.

"For your freedom and ours:
We commit our bodies
To the soil of Italy,
Our souls to God,
And our hearts to Poland."

--(from a memorial to the fallen Polish soldiers)

--Nick