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Zychowicz, Piotr
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2 articles of this author have been cited in the European Press Review so far.
Pope triumphs over his opponents
Several thousand Spaniards demonstrated in Madrid on Wednesday against the visit of Pope Benedict XVI to mark World Youth Day. But the Church has emerged as the winner against its opponents, the conservative daily Rzeczpospolita notes with satisfaction: "From every corner you hear people saying that the Church is backwards-looking, reactionary and behind the times, and that with its absurd commands and bans it doesn't fit in with current attitudes. That it's a major embarrassment with which no modern, open-minded person should be associated. It's no mere coincidence that young people are being bombarded with this propaganda. For the future belongs to whoever can capture the hearts of the young generation. However it looks very much like the youth are doing their own thing and won't allow themselves to be manipulated so easily. The 26th World Youth Day which has just begun in Madrid is a major triumph for the Church and a defeat for its opponents. One and a half million young people have travelled to Spain from all over the world to celebrate it."
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More from the press review on the subject » International Relations, » Religion, » Spain, » Vatican
Seeing the world from the enemy's point of view
A book dealing with the flight of the East Prussians before the advancing Red Army at the end of World War II has appeared in Polish translation. A very good read, writes the conservative daily Rzeczpospolita, which is normally critical of Germany: "Although half a century has passed since Die Große Flucht [exodus from the East] was written, and although hundreds of books have been written since then about the fall of the Third Reich, this book by Jürgen Thorwald ... has lost none of its topicality. In a broad panorama written in the form of a lively reportage, he presents the war-ravaged souls on the Eastern Front at the time when the Red army was crossing into the Reich. ... Many Poles could find it hard to read Die Große Flucht, because it predominantly portrays the sufferings of the Germans. But sometimes it is well worthwhile to look at events from another perspective, even that of the enemy."
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