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After Slavomir Rawicz's Long Walk story was debunked, and 50 years after the described events, Witold Glinski showed up with an almost identical albeit muted version of the walk. Glinski, equally unable to provide solid evidence backing his story, told reporters that his tale had possibly been stolen by Rawicz from official papers while he himself had felt forced to silence by a murderer. Glinski's version fast made it into the media and recently onto the movie screen, and involved high officials in the Polish government.Enters Leszek Gliniecki. Facing unwilling ears Gliniecki persists that real courage should not be overshadowed by unsubstantiated tales. Armed with archive documents, he says that at the time Glinski was supposed to be escaping Gulag he...
ExWeb interview with Levison Wood: first attempt to walk the world's longest river
