People on the Move: Forced Population Movements in Europe in the Second World War and Its Aftermath, Berg, 2008, ISBN 9781845208240, ... Roman Graczyk was obviously right in his comment that: in the Communist days, to come from the 'Kresy' was nearly equivalent to opposing the system. Anyone who exclaimed with pride 'I am from Lwow' was in a way challenging the the Communist authorities ... The 'Kresy' functioned in collective consciousness nearly as a cradle of true 'Polishness', free of Communist depravation ...
Fodor's Poland, Fodor's Travel Publications, Random House Digital, Inc., 2007, ISBN 9781400017515, ... The concept of the Eastern borderlands, or Kresy, is very much alive in the Polish psyche, and yet it is not easy to define the region in concrete. physical. and geographical terms ...
