81 years ago on October 2, 1944, after 63 days of hopeless fighting, the commander of the National Army Gen. Tadeusz Komorowski “Bór” signed an act of surrender of the city. Where are all the screamers who say it was worth it all year on 1 August? Even on the Facebook page of the Warsaw Uprising Museum, silence.
Around 40,000 Polish soldiers and about 180 1000 civilians died during the war. Those who survived were forced to leave Warsaw, and the city itself was to be demolished by the Germans.
The treasures of national culture are gone – our monuments, infrastructure, industry, collections. The uprising met Hitler's political goals better than ours – Polish ones. “From a historical point of view, it is simply a blessing that Poles do so. After 5 or six weeks, we'll get out of this. And after that Warsaw, the capital, the head, the intelligence of this erstwhile 16-17-million people of Poles will be destroyed, this nation that has been blocking the East for 700 years and has been on our way since the First conflict of Tannenberg. And then historically the Polish problem will no longer be a large problem for our children and for all those who will come after us, but even for us" – he happily reported to Hitler Heinrich Himmler. After 63 days of fighting, Warsaw died.
Instead of analyzing, brooding and drawing conclusions, there will be silence or patriotic foaming again. Almost no 1 asks applicable questions. What was the political and military sense of this uprising? What was his intent and could it give Poland anything? all year, there are idle objections to Joseph Stalin and the claim that the moods were already so revolutionary that it could not be contained and the order to emergence had to fall. But was it so hard for analysts at the time to foretell what they could do and what Stalin would do? After all, they knew precisely what the optics of the USSR were and what is the overarching objective. I hear memories that we were hoping for greater aid from the English. Really? Why was it not learned from the faithless attitude of the Allies in 1939, but naively put everything on the same page again? Was there anything done to keep the hearts and heads cool and pour more sense into them? Where was the political work of the then leadership and command? How much was the government worth in London? The elites of the time, who succumbed to the insurrectional and romanticist temper of the street, failed. Unfortunately, the state of awareness of Poles today, is inactive in general akin to that. These elites have continued on the political scene today. For many years there has been a pattern of irrational hatred of everything from the East, and inactive the same naive belief in automatic aid from the West. inactive the same idiotic belief that we will force any gratitude there or that we have a work to belong there.
It is idiotic for politicians to say that we have proved something to the planet and to ourselves. The forgotten leaders of the day and present do not remember warnings Roman Dmowski"By risking Poland, its future must not be lost either by an individual, or by organizing any or even a full generation. due to the fact that Poland is not owned by 1 or another Pole, 1 or another camp, or even a generation."
The Warsaw Uprising has long plunged us as a nation into human and moral infirmity. Henryk Sienkiewicz wrote that "blood does not regret, as long as it does not go for nothing". But it's the blood's grief. Regret it, due to the fact that it's in vain in the name of the romanticist bullshit that the irresponsible politicians put on young people. The wound of the uprising must be scratched and drawn to conclusions. It is actual that sometimes you gotta die for your country, but more crucial to live wisely for it. Sobriety and honest reasoning about politics should be promoted.
Finally, 3 crucial statements concerning the Warsaw Uprising. Historian Paweł Jasienica He was right erstwhile he wrote "The Warsaw Uprising was directed militarily against Germany, politically against the Russians and indeed against Poles themselves". Participants in the Uprising and Endek Prof. Wiesław Chrzanowski In turn, he wrote that “The uprising is simply a criminal crime for which any Polish centres are responsible. This is how these accidents are judged by Polish society, how they look in reality. The guilty must be held accountable." National Army soldier, insurgent and excellent historian Prof. Jan Ciechanowski “ The uprising ended in a terrible disaster, disaster and ruin that had not touched any another capital in Europe since the Huns invaded Rome, ” he wrote. 200,000 people were killed, 500,000 were exiled and sentenced to dissension. The city was razed. This is the biggest mistake made by the command of the AK" and "the deficiency of Polish-Soviet military cooperation and the complete failure of the AK command at the time of the decision with the anticipation of defeat made the uprising an unprecedented national tragedy which no 1 can justify. As a consequence of the fighting, Warsaw was destroyed. For the full London camp, the fall of the uprising was a large political, military and intellectual defeat from which it never rose"
Memory of the murdered civilian population. Praise the brave insurgents. Shame on the perpetrators of tragedy.
Łukasz Jastrzębski
