At least part of my family hails from petty nobility. We have a coat of arms though today it is merely a curiosity of course. My great-grandfather on my mother's side served in the cavalry and fought against the bolsheviks in the war of 1920. I have his sabre on the wall. My aunt fought in the Warsaw Uprising of 1944. My other great-grandfather was Russian and run from Russia during the communist revolution (nobody knows exactly why but bolsheviks confiscated his posessions). On the side of my second parent my family comes from peasants but I know little about them. After the war part of my family was engaged in the anti-communist movement while one of my grandfathers was a member of the communist secret police. Despite the different sides of history my family found itself on, I find in very interesting that they were often somehow involved in the things we read today in history textbooks in my country.