''Uważam Rze. Inaczej pisane'' ("that"), was a reference to the daily newspaper ''
Rzeczpospolita
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'', whose journalists launched the magazine. was a
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conservative weekly
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History
The weekly was launched on 7 February 2011 under the editorship of Paweł Lisicki. It was owned by Presspublica, which was bought by
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businessman Grzegorz Hajdarowicz, months later. Within a couple of months, ''Uważam Rze'' became the third most popular Polish weekly, behind ''
Gość Niedzielny
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The magazine circulation in 2011 was 198,500 copies. The print and e-edition circulation of the weekly was 136,003 in August 2014.
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Polityka
''Polityka'' (, ''Politics'') is a centre-left weekly news magazine in Poland. With a circulation of 200,050 (as of April 2011), it was the country's biggest selling weekly, ahead of ''Newsweek''s Polish edition, ''Newsweek Polska'', and ''Wpr ...
''.
In April 2012, a monthly historical journal was launched — ''Uważam Rze Historia''. In late November 2012, Hajdarowicz fired Lisicki, spurring a mass-resignation including
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Marek Magierowski
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, and others; Jan Piński became the new editor. The last print-release was on 21 November 2016; it continued to be published on the web for a while.
Reception
Joanna Michlic
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notes that ''Uważam Rze Historia'' served as one of the many venues where "right-wing ethno-nationalistic historians" promulgated an ahistorical view of Polish history esp. concerning Polish culpability in the Holocaust.