Poles felt the tragedy of Mariupol in the last century/Polskie Radio
Today Poland celebrates the anniversary of the start of the Warsaw Uprising – the one that lasted more than two months, in which more than 200 thousand people died.
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A new story with an old villain
< p> And the Red Army (whose help the rebels counted on then, stupid as a holey boot, and still not much wiser – now ours! – Allies) all this time waited near Warsaw until the city turned into a bunch of ruins.
In an interview with Gazeta Wyborcza, Norman Davis compared Warsaw and Mariupol in terms of Russian tactics – noting, among other things, that the strength of Ukrainian tsev, in comparison with the Poles in 1944, not only in the fact that we have a functioning state and a million-strong army, but also in the fact that, unlike the Home Army of 1944, we make our military decisions independently.
Ukrainian defenders amaze the whole world with their determination/Photo “IRS-Kherson”
In other words, in the language of an academic British historian, Norman Davis said: “Glory to the Armed Forces of Ukraine.” So we appreciate what we have, yes. And we learn to draw a lesson not only from our own history.
