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To: P8riot
just because you came from a country where the military lacked enough discipline to enforce the obedience of orders to it's troops.

Polish soldiers were very good. They defeated Soviet Army in 1920 and stopped the Communist advance into Europe. They fought bravely ALONE against Germans in 1939 and they lost only because they were outnumbered, did not have the comparable equipment and they got attacked from the East by Soviets. Then later many Poles crossed the borders illegaly and joined Western armies. Polish units fought in Italy, in air battle for England, in Northern Africa and other places. Blind obedience is not a requirement for being a good soldier.

255 posted on 03/27/2002 11:47:26 AM PST by A. Pole
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To: A. Pole
I am not saying that they aren't. I agree that history bears out that they are. What I am saying is that discipline in the form of following orders is not ignorance, as you have stated poreviously. I based my statements concerning insubordination based on your own claims of it's prevalence in the Polish military.
270 posted on 03/27/2002 12:14:30 PM PST by P8riot
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