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Witold Pilecki (amazing life of the Polish hero that too few know about)
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Posted on 05/15/2006 2:26:03 PM PDT by lizol
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To: lizol
I pray for the day that the story of the Polish Freedom Fighters becomes known - instead we have the usual BS from Hollywho and the MSM.
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posted on
05/15/2006 4:46:18 PM PDT
by
spanalot
To: dighton
Many thanks for the ping. Courage at this level is incomprehensible to those of us lucky enough to live ordinary lives. BTT.
To: lizol
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posted on
05/15/2006 5:11:13 PM PDT
by
XR7
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To: lizol; dighton; Senator Bedfellow; Billthedrill
Bump for a truly astonishing story.
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posted on
05/15/2006 5:49:43 PM PDT
by
aculeus
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To: lizol
I've just finished watching an amazing movie about him on Polish TV and couldn't resist from posting something dedicated to this great man.
His story is almost unbelievable, were it not true! The Black Book of Communism gives him a fair amount of coverage. Great thread!
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posted on
05/15/2006 7:10:04 PM PDT
by
Das Outsider
(Can you think of the last regime to order the removal of crosses from the public square?)
To: lizol
Astonishing. Thanks for posting.
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posted on
05/15/2006 10:11:22 PM PDT
by
Auntie Mame
("If you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all." --Grandma)
To: SaltyJoe
Sorry, I have not seen in English either.
But you'll find pretty interesting text in English about Witold Pilecki when you follow the link posted by me in #4 (including fragments of Pilecki's diary translated to English).
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posted on
05/16/2006 3:18:49 AM PDT
by
lizol
(Liberal - a man with his mind open ... at both ends)
To: lizol
This post deserves not to disappear, so one more bump . . .
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posted on
05/18/2006 2:47:07 PM PDT
by
dighton
To: lizol
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posted on
05/18/2006 2:54:17 PM PDT
by
Revolting cat!
("In the end, nothing explains anything.")
To: lizol
What's astonishing to me is our continued misperception, reflected here and elsewhere, that Nazism was so much worse than Stalinism. Volunteered for Auschwitz? And escaped? So it wasn't like in a Spielberg movie, was it? Did he volunteer for the Communist prison? We know he didn't escape. Did anyone ever volunteer for gulag? This misperception makes us yawn at the Stalinists in our midst and get hysterical when a dozen inconsequential fools in nazi costumes march on Main Street in some mid-Western suburb. Hellllooooo!
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posted on
05/18/2006 3:00:03 PM PDT
by
Revolting cat!
("In the end, nothing explains anything.")
To: Revolting cat!
Did he volunteer for the Communist prison?
Well, he did in a way.
As you can see, the above article says: In September 1945 Pilecki was ordered by General Wladyslaw Anders to return to Poland and gather intelligence to be sent west.
He went back and proceeded to organize his intelligence network, while also writing a monograph on Auschwitz. In the spring of 1946, however, the Polish Government in Exile decided that the postwar political situation afforded no hope of Poland's liberation and ordered all partisans still in the forests either to return to their normal civilian lives or to escape to the west. Pilecki declined to leave, but proceeded to dismantle the partisan forces in eastern Poland.
He had a chance to leave communist Poland, but stayed - being almost sure, that it's only a matter of time when gets caught and arrested.
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posted on
05/18/2006 3:16:15 PM PDT
by
lizol
(Liberal - a man with his mind open ... at both ends)
To: lizol
BUMP
*sorry had to do this.... there is a documentary movie about this Brave Man on Polish TV right now, it’ 15th or 25th [date is unknown] of May that is the annual of his death*
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posted on
05/14/2007 12:51:49 PM PDT
by
Verdelet
(Part of the team of University Football Champions 2007... check profile...)
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