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Source: Professor Krzysztof Szwagrzyk, Head of the Polish Institute of National Memory, as reported by <wpolityce.pl>, 25 January 2017 http://wpolityce.pl/historia/324688-prof-szwagrzyk-w-latach-40-i-50-w-polsce- zmarlo-zostalo-straconych-lub-zabitych-ok-50-tysiecy-ludzi?strona=1 accessed 11 February 2017. Reforestation of Poland Percentage of Polish territory covered by forests: 9.1 million hectares, or 31 percent of territory. Increase in forestation since 1995: 0.3 million hectares. Ownership of forested areas: 7.5 million hectares is owned by the state, 1.7million by private owners. Amount of forested area per citizen: 0.24 hectares (about half an acre) per person. Source: Main Statistical Office (GUS), as reported by <wpolityce.pl>, 21 March 2017 http://wpolityce.pl/gospodarka/332400-optymistyczne-dane-gus-coraz-wiecej-lasow-w-polsce-zajmuja-9-mln-ha- czyli-31-proc-powierzchni-kraju?strona=2. NATO members’ spending on defense NATO members that spend at least 2 percent of their GDP on defense: the UK, Poland, Greece, Estonia and the United States (out of 28 NATO members). US Defense Secretary James Mattis’s statement to those who do not pay: “Americans cannot care more for your children’s security than you do. No longer can the American taxpayer carry a disproportionate share of the defense of Western values.” Source: “Mattis threatens to ‘moderate’ NATO if allies don’t pay up,” New York Post, 15 Febraury 2017 <http://nypost.com/2017/02/15/mattis-threatens-to-moderate-nato-if-allies-dont-pay-up> accessed 15 Febraury 2017. Desirability of foreign passports Rankings of the United States and Poland in the Nomad Passport Index 2017: #35 and #34, respectively. The most desirable passports according to Nomad: Swedish, Belgian, and Italian. Criteria of ranking: “The amount of taxes a country levies on citizens who live abroad, along with the nation’s overall global reputation, civil and personal freedoms, and the ability to hold multiple passports simultaneously.” Source: Justin Bachman, “The Most Desirable Passports on Earth,” Bloomberg, 3 March 2017, http://finance.yahoo.com/news/most-desirable-passports-earth-don-080006049.html, accessed on the same day. Polish food exports in 2017 Percentage of food coming from Poland consumed in EU: 9 percent. Poland is the sixth-largest producer of food in the EU. Polish products as percentage of products consumed in EU: dairy products 8.2 percent; meat products 10.5 percent. Source: Artur Osiecki, “Polska żywność podbiła Europę, teraz czas na świat,” Rzeczpospolita, 11 June 2017 http://www.rp.pl/Debaty-ekonomiczne/306119950-Polska-zywnosc-podbila-Europe-teraz-czas-na-swiat.html#ap-1, accessed on the same day. Defamatory stereotypes Number of persons suspected of participating in car theft in Germany in 2016: 17,701. Among these, number of German citizens: 11,037, or 62 percent. Number of citizens of other countries, European and non-European: 6,664. Source: Lausitzer Rundschau, as reported by Rzeczpospolita, 18 March 2017, http://www.rp.pl/Przestepczosc/303189932-Kradziez-samochodow-w-Niemczech-Obalony-stereotyp-o- cudzoziemcach.html#ap-1, accessed on the same day. 2105 September 2017 THE SARMATIAN REVIEW Catholicism in Poland Percentage of Poles who define themselves as Catholics: 92 percent. Percentage of Poles who declare that they attend Mass weekly: 50 percent (a drop of 8 percent since 2005). Source: CBOS poll, as reported in Gość Niedzielny, 28 June 2017 http://gosc.pl/doc/4009288.Ilu-jest-w-Polsce- katolikow> accessed on the same day. SELECTION OF DATA FROM PREVIOUS ISSUES Financing of the far-left and neo-Marxist organizations in Poland Percentage of funding that Krytyka Polityczna, a neo-Marxist left-wing periodical, receives from abroad: 90 percent. Exact quote: “My organization employs several dozen people and the majority of donations––90 percent, and it has always been so––comes from abroad.” Source: Krytyka Polityczna editor Sławomir Sierakowski in a Radio TOK interview, as reported by portal <wpolityce.pl>, 24 November 2016, http://wpolityce.pl/polityka/316708-sierakowski-niechcacy-ujawnia-kto- finansuje-polska-lewice-90-proc-dotacji-dla-mojej-organizacji-pochodzi-z-zagranicy-kaczynski-moze-nam-skoczyc, accessed on the same day. Prices Gazprom charged its various European customers in 2013–2014: For 1000 cubed meters of gas, Poland paid 429 dollars in 2013 and 379 dollars in 2014; Hungary 418 dollars in 2013 and 338 dollars in 2014; Austria 402 dollars in 2013 and 329 in 2014; Slovakia 438 dollars in 2013 and 308 dollars in 2014; France 404 dollars in 2013 and 338 dollars in 2014; Germany 366 dollars in 2013 and 323 dollars in 2014. Average Gazprom prices for 2012: Poland 500 dollars per cubic meter of gas; Western Europe 440 dollars. Additional clauses in the agreement: Poland is obliged to pay for the agreed-on amount of gas even if she is unable to use it all; Poland