Well, unfortunately they did.
Poland has had its magnificent heroes, and great moments in history (the turning back of the Red Army in 1920 before Warsaw, which saved western Europe);
but it also has had some black sheep in the family...
Oh, wait - I just did...
Russians killed everybody, including divisions of their own soldiers that were in the way. (And Raoul Wallenberg) But they never get held accountable.
“” “” Poland has had its magnificent heroes, and great moments in history (the turning back of the Red Army in 1920 before Warsaw, which saved western Europe);”” “”
That’s one take on it. It worth mentioning that the Red Army went to Warsaw repelling the Polish invasion of Ukraine. If not for the Polish aggression no Red Army would have been anywhere near Warsaw at the time.
I respect Polish people very much but their government went off the rails recently peddling alternative history to improve their standing and they do it extraordinary stupidly.
Using Auschwitz commemoration to once again inform the rest of the World about Molotov-Ribbentrop as if nobody heard about it and to warn about ‘resurgent Russia’ was just a recent example.
But guess who are coming to a World holocaust forum in Israel this year? Putin is a main guest and nobody wants to see a Polish president in Israel.
Everybody is tired with their baloney.
But these were not Home Army units taking direction from the Polish government in exile, although the AK may have cooperated with them against the Germans. These militias also fought Ukrainians and Ruthenians, and sometimes cooperated with the Germans against the Soviets.
Southeast Poland in 43-44 was very close to a Hobbesian war of all against all.