Last night, I met a Polish lady in a restaurant in Egypt. She was 35. An intelligent software programmer from Warsaw. During the conversation, it became painfully obvious that she knew little about the real history of Poland. Here are some examples:

1- She did not know that Poland/Lithuania installed a false tsar. An impostor pretending to be the son of Ivan the Terrible/Great. This guy ruled Russia for a year from 1605. He tried to convert Russia to Catholicism.

2- She did not know that Poland occupied Moscow in 1610 for 2 years. She thought that Poland was always defending itself against Russia.

3- She did not know that the "French" army of Napoleon that invaded Russia was only 1/3 French. It was 2/3 Polish, Lithuanian, German, Italian etc.

4- She did not know that 1/3 of the "British" pilots at the Battle of Britain were Polish.

5- She had not heard of the plane crash of General Władysław Sikorski, the commander-in-chief of the Polish Army and prime minister of the Polish government-in-exile, in 1943. This general was killed by the British as they had other plans for Poland.

6- She did not know that the Polish uprising of 1863 failed because the Russians liberated the Polish serfs - the majority of the population. The Polish landowners supported the revolt as they wanted to keep serfdom.

NATO and the Communists before them did a great job rewriting history.