[Destro]

So? The Soviets did not ask the Poles to rise up - and tehy were not about to help their rivals in a mess they made by rebeling too quickly. The Poles rose up because the exiled Polish govt in London knew they were betrayed by the British (what else is new? Brits have always been ace betrayers) so decided tehy needed to take Poland before teh Soviets arrived - it was a gamble that failed.

[Grzegorz 246]

"The Soviets did not ask the Poles to rise up "

You are wrong once again my child.

[lizol]

The Americans didn't ask the French to rise up in Paris either.
But when the French did (more or less at the same time as the Poles in Warsaw) - they sent their troops to support that uprising. Because they wanted to liberate France, not to take it over.