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Operation Antyk
Operation Antyk (''Antyk'' being an acronym for the Polish phrase ''Akcja Antykomunistyczna'', "Anti-Communist Operation"), also known as Department R,Grzegorz Mazur The ZWZ-AK Bureau of Information and Propaganda 2003, London Branch of the Polish Home Army Ex-Servicemen Association was a complex of counter- propaganda activities of Polish resistance movement organisation Home Army, directed against pro-Soviet and pro- communist circles in Polish society, mostly members of the Polish Workers' Party. The operation was initiated by ''Office Antyk'' of the Home Army’s Bureau of Information and Propaganda. Begun in November 1943, it was directed by Tadeusz Żenczykowski.Żenczykowski Tadeusz |
Acronym
An acronym is a word or name formed from the initial components of a longer name or phrase. Acronyms are usually formed from the initial letters of words, as in ''NATO'' (''North Atlantic Treaty Organization''), but sometimes use syllables, as in ''Benelux'' (short for ''Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg''). They can also be a mixture, as in ''radar'' (''Radio Detection And Ranging''). Acronyms can be pronounced as words, like ''NASA'' and ''UNESCO''; as individual letters, like ''FBI'', ''TNT'', and ''ATM''; or as both letters and words, like '' JPEG'' (pronounced ') and ''IUPAC''. Some are not universally pronounced one way or the other and it depends on the speaker's preference or the context in which it is being used, such as '' SQL'' (either "sequel" or "ess-cue-el"). The broader sense of ''acronym''—the meaning of which includes terms pronounced as letters—is sometimes criticized, but it is the term's original meaning and is in common use. Dictionary and st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |