In the summers of 1913 and 1914 Vladimir Lenin and Nadezhda Krupskaya rented a holiday home in nearby Biały Dunajec and often stayed in a Poronin inn. The area formed part of Austria-Hungary at that time (as a result of the Partitions of Poland), and when World War I broke out in mid-1914 the Austrian authorities arrested Lenin on suspicion of spying for Russia (August 1914), but deported him to Switzerland soon after (September 1914).[2][3]
During 1947-1990 there used to be a Lenin Museum in Poronin [pl] and a statue of Lenin. The statue was transferred to the Socialist Realism Art Gallery (Polish: Galeria Sztuki Socrealizmu, also known as the "Museum of Socialist Realism") in the Kozłówka Palace complex in the Lublin Voivodeship.
^Read, Christopher (11 January 2013). Lenin: A Revolutionary Life. Routledge Historical Biographies. London: Routledge. p. 105. ISBN9781134624713. On 7 August their holiday home in Poronin, near Zakopane, was raided by Austrian police. [...] The following day, Lenin was arrested. Through the good offices of the Austrian Social-Democratic leader, Victor Adler, he was released and Lenin and Krupskaya were able to leave, via Vienna, for neutral Switzerland where they arrived on 5 September.