https://www.barwypowstania.pl/photos/22
https://www.barwypowstania.pl/photos/51
and the world is stupid enough to repeat the endless cycle of violence.
It is up to us to decide if "never again" is a universal rule or "oh, but this time it is different".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%22W%22_Hour?useskin=vector
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Also, if you ever have a chance then head to Warsaw Rising Museum:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warsaw_Rising_Museum?useskin=v...
The aftermath [1] was that ~220k Poles died and out of that 150-200k civilians, often with mass execution - later on a lot of warsaw population was sometimes bitter toward the uprising’s leadership.
To put it in context: within 2 months 200k people died, similar number like in Hiroshima but almost nobody wordwide know about warsaw uprising.
The Israel government ignored the US's warning of the attack (why wouldn't they? they helped it happen by silencing intelligence reports about it, and somebody mysteriously moved the festival to the IDF base right before the attack.
So the only real civilian casualties of Oct 7 fall on the Israeli government, its people who elected it, and the AIPAC related Jewish institutions in the US who fund them. The blood is, as they once said, on their hands.
What makes you think you're in a position to qualify the morality of the deaths of my not-so-distant relatives at the hands of Nazi invaders?
Anyone (yes, every single one in my book) who is defending Oct 7th is nothing but fueling antisemitism.
The Warsaw Uprising was an armed revolt against Nazi occupation forces. Oct 7 involved the deliberate killing and abduction of civilians, including people at a music festival and families in their homes. That distinction is not subtle.
You can oppose Israeli policy without denying or laundering Hamas terrorism. If your argument requires doing that, the problem is the argument.
As expected from the original comment: Nothing but antisemitic rhetoric.
Literally never happened. Has been debunked for years now. Update your Hasbara (and your anti Iran propaganda), Israelibot, because most people who aren't brain rotted Christy boomers don't fall for the Jewish supremacy and Israeli colonial horseshit (from a people who hate Christians like them nonetheless! Google "alternative plus sign") anymore.
For those who don't know, the Uprising was a planned resistance action to expel the Nazis from Warsaw.
Supposedly it was planned in collaboration with the Russians. But the Russian army stood down while the resistance fought alone for two months.
This allowed the Germans to regroup, fight back, and eventually to destroy the city, and most of the resistance itself.
The whole point of the uprising was to liberate Warsaw before the Russians get in, as everybody knew that Russians are not liberating Poland - they are looking to occupy the country, just as Germany did. If the Uprising was successfull, it would give a great credit and negotiating card to the Polish government.
Unfortunately, Russians knew that too - that's exactly why they stopped their advance and watched the city being razed to the ground. Also unfortunately, they were right and ended up occupying Poland for the next 45 years.
- the Poles of the AK (London government loyal) were not the communist faction (Lublin government loyal), and saw the insurrection as the last chance to get a Poland out of the Soviet sphere of influence post WWII – especially after the publicization of Katyn;
- even if they had wanted, Stalin had zero interest in giving a hand to London-loyal Poles that were in frontal opposition to “his” Lublin-loyal Poles;
- the Germans were not caught flat-footed, they already knew of the insurrection preparations and therefore not only was the city well garrisoned, it would have been in any case, as it was the strategic lock of the area to hold the RKKA on the Vistula;
- and all the above is moot in any case, because the RKKA units that reached the neighborhood of Warsaw in '44 had as many chance of taking the city as the German units that reached Moscow in '41 – they were just spent and at the end of their logistic tail after months of fighting during the Bagration operation, and had no chance of successfully developing an opposed crossing of the Vistula against two Panzerkorps.
Many argue this uprising is nothing to be proud of and the crime of the leadership with devastating results: ~200k civilians went with this bang, and city completely wiped out.
Spreading this knowledge is now illegal in Putin's Russia. [1]
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molotov%E2%80%93Ribbentrop_Pac...
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_Against_Rehabilitation_of_...
What is fact is that Hitler and Stalin were military allies to start WWII. This is documented history.
Would you agree with my latter statement?
nobody cared about the poles
> The citizens of Poland have the highest count of individuals who have been recognized by Yad Vashem as the Polish Righteous Among the Nations, for saving Jews from extermination during the Holocaust in World War II. There are 7,232 (as of 1 January 2022) Polish men and women conferred with the honor, over a quarter of the 28,486 recognized by Yad Vashem in total. The list of Righteous Among the Nations is not comprehensive and it is estimated that hundreds of thousands of Poles concealed and aided tens of thousands of their Polish-Jewish neighbors. Many of these initiatives were carried out by individuals, but there also existed organized networks of Polish resistance which were dedicated to aiding Jews – most notably, the Żegota organization.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_Righteous_Among_the_Nat...
As a Pole, I am pissed af about the fact that this true story of WWII is not known. In fact, very often the Russian version of "pravda" is what has been spread.
Why tf is there no Oscar winning movie about this story?
Poland is invaded from both sides, saves the most lives of our fellow Jewish brothers and sisters: the most heroic story, and the movie count is zero.
This is now politely referred to as a Soviet betrayal in service of "Stalin's post-war political goals for Poland".