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The 1944 Warsaw Uprising, in Color
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We have a monument commemorating children fighting in the uprising: https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomnik_Ma%C5%82ego_Powsta%C5%8...
And the "W" Hour is commemorated on every 1st August at 1700 hours https://youtu.be/Ejd2rsXoQSI https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%22W%22_Hour?useskin=vector --- Also, if you ever have a chance then head to Warsaw Rising Museum: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warsaw_Rising_Museum?useskin=v...
I was in Warsaw a few weeks ago and ended up visiting that museum almost on a whim, so I wasn’t prepared for the experience. I don’t think a museum has ever hit me that hard — inspiring, gut-wrenching, and unforgettable.
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It would be naive to think that either ruler intended to honour this agreement in the long run. Both sides were probably gambling on when, not if, the agreement would be broken.
Sure, that's debatable supposition. I would think that it's likely correct. What is fact is that Hitler and Stalin were military allies to start WWII. This is documented history. Would you agree with my latter statement?
meanwhile France and UK simply sat on their asses against empty unguarded border
nobody cared about the poles
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#57uprising together with Germans against russia invasion, and it garnered sympathy from many Chinese people --- though Polish people are anti-Chinese for religious and communism (maybe also religious) reasons
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Sure, that's debatable supposition. I would think that it's likely correct. What is fact is that Hitler and Stalin were military allies to start WWII. This is documented history. Would you agree with my latter statement?
meanwhile France and UK simply sat on their asses against empty unguarded border nobody cared about the poles
Yes, and actual history yet again subverts the dominant story:
> The citizens of Poland have the highest count of individuals who have been recognized by Yad Vashem as the Polish Righteous Among the Nations, for saving Jews from extermination during the Holocaust in World War II. There are 7,232 (as of 1 January 2022) Polish men and women conferred with the honor, over a quarter of the 28,486 recognized by Yad Vashem in total. The list of Righteous Among the Nations is not comprehensive and it is estimated that hundreds of thousands of Poles concealed and aided tens of thousands of their Polish-Jewish neighbors. Many of these initiatives were carried out by individuals, but there also existed organized networks of Polish resistance which were dedicated to aiding Jews – most notably, the Żegota organization.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_Righteous_Among_the_Nat...
As a Pole, I am pissed af about the fact that this true story of WWII is not known. In fact, very often the Russian version of "pravda" is what has been spread.
Why tf is there no Oscar winning movie about this story?
Poland is invaded from both sides, saves the most lives of our fellow Jewish brothers and sisters: the most heroic story, and the movie count is zero.