Battle of Mątwy 1666: Poles massacred Poles, Sobieski barely escaped

Krzysztof Varga writes about the Battle of Mątwy in July 1666 as one of the darkest episodes in Polish history — a fratricidal clash in which Poles slaughtered Poles with exceptional brutality. The future King Jan III Sobieski, who barely survived, wrote that even Tatars and Cossacks never committed such atrocities. Varga presents the battle as a grim reminder of the capacity for self-destruction in Polish history.

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