22 MILLENIUM
20th century of our resistance to totalitarianism. Determined Polish resistance
[in the past] was resistance in the name of basic European values. And such an
outlook strikes me as important again today. For it is our passport to a place in
Europe .. .',^36 One can only rejoice at the fact that this approach seems to bear
a marked resemblance to the interpretation launched twenty years earlier by
God's Playground: A History of Poland.