When I saw the memorials myself in Warsaw a few years ago, I thought: This is what the Flight 93 memorial in PA should look like! Heroes in action against the odds. Not some miserable crescent in the dirt.
Posted on 08/01/2010 1:54:00 PM PDT by lizol
Poland marks heroic, tragic Warsaw uprising
Aug 1, 2010 6:53 PM | By Dominika Maslikowski,
Warsaw observed a minute’s silence Sunday, as the city stopped to pay tribute in commemoration of the 66th anniversary of the Warsaw Uprising — the heroic but doomed 1944 fight back against Nazi occupation.
Buses and trams came to a stop and people in streets and cafes stood to show their respects when the sirens wailed at the exact moment Sunday when Varsovians took up arms against their German occupiers.
“You can destroy a city, and its infrastructure,” said Warsaw Mayor Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz at the ceremony. “But you cannot destroy the spirit of its citizens or their longing for freedom and democracy.” The moment of silence in Warsaw was one of the events in day-long commemorations throughout Poland.
An innovative 3D film premiered at the Warsaw Rising Museum that showed in realistic detail the rubble and the ruins of the city in 1944 after it was virtually destroyed.
The five-minute film, which shows aerial views of collapsed bridges and ruined houses, took a team of some 30 historians two years to make.
The 63-day battle lasted until October 2 and left 18,000 soldiers dead and some 80 per cent of the capital in ruins.
The insurgents of Poland’s Home Army made a brave, but ultimately doomed effort to liberate the city in the final days of World War II.
The insurgents were poorly armed and outnumbered, and their fight today symbolizes struggle for independence against impossible odds.
Other events included laying of wreath ceremonies at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and at monuments to the uprising.
I agree - it's an excellent account of the uprising and is still one of my most favorite books. I've often wondered if being a 'WWII war baby', my spirit was somehow drawn to this story - I've read it many times.
What brave people these folks were—even with Great Britain and allies abandoning them pretty much to the Germans and later the Soviets for several decades.
When I saw the memorials myself in Warsaw a few years ago, I thought: This is what the Flight 93 memorial in PA should look like! Heroes in action against the odds. Not some miserable crescent in the dirt.
Good on Poland for having such a large amount of national pride.
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I second that.
It brings tears to my eyes to see the noble old people there who lived through all of this. What a tough generation they were.
I agree.
AMEN!
God bless our polish allies.. They fought the hard fight from the uprising to Solidarity and started the end of communism!
If I recall the Russians were on the other side of the River and could have crossed over and given help. But Stalin didn’t want the pro freedom poles to win... He wanted to install his puppets so he let the Uprising fail. God spits on Stalin.
It would be good to understand how they failed.
The insurgents were poorly armed and outnumbered,
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This says it all!,,,
Lack of military type arms in the hands of the people,,,
Think of this thread when you hear a lib squeeeel
“You Don’t Need THAT!!!”...
Even in exile, Poland survived.
A remarkable country. A remarkable people.
Let us also remember the Poles Pulaski and Kosciusko, who helped us win our freedom.
The gentleman in the last picture is wearing a tie patterned after the American flag--this is no mistake.
I remember here in the early 1980s when people were wearing "Solidarnosc" buttons. Think Americans would do that today?
I think America has to get its head straightened out by not following the values of the entertainment industry so slavishly. When America didn’t let the entertainers run the country, America was a superpower. Each country that follows the values of its entertainers always falls because the country does not live in reality as a result.
Since God isn’t ‘hip’ with the entertainment industry, Americans no longer want to be seen as ‘establishment’ so God isn’t ‘in’ with Americans. No wonder God seems to be forgetting America and we’re in such a mess. We’ve made it clear that God isn’t needed anymore and we’re shoving Him out. Communism is now ‘in’ with our own government officials.
Such are the ironies, is that if indeed Stalin had helped, he would have helped defeat Nazism in Poland. As like most communists, he didn’t think pragmatically. His butchering doctrine was more important.
Never a better time to advance the value of 1 and 2.
Roger Dat!,,,
All we have for our protection is each other and our guns,,,
The USA has fallen on hard times,,,
We’ll get through it...
Wow, beautifully said, and absolutely correct.
Amen!
It would look like this in America:
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The movie “Uprising” with Leelee Sobieski and Hank Azaria is well worth watching.
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