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The Secret Nation: Poland's Underground Education System
When Poland vanished from the map in 1795, its people refused to let their language and culture die. This episode explores the remarkable underground education networks—from secret flying universities in Warsaw to clandestine classrooms in partitioned Poland—that kept Polish identity alive for over a century. We trace the story from the Komisja Edukacji Narodowej, Europe's first education ministry, through the dark days of the Partitions, when teaching Polish was a crime, to the brave women and men who risked prison to teach their children their own history. We meet figures like Maria…
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