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Poland's Wedding to the Sea: A Nation Reclaims the Coast
In 1920, newly independent Poland performed a strange and powerful ritual: a symbolic wedding to the Baltic Sea. This episode tells the story of that ceremony and the decade-long struggle to secure access to the coast. We begin with General Józef Haller, who led Polish troops to the Baltic near Puck in February 1920, hurling a ring into the waves to seal the union. But the real work came later: the construction of a entirely new port city, Gdynia, which went from a sleepy fishing village of 1,200 people to a major seaport by 1939. We explore the economic vision of Eugeniusz Kwiatkowski, the…
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