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What did Poland get out of the wars and struggles for others? [1108]
This has nothing to do with my family it has everything to do with how the Polish continued to live under communist rule.
I just happen to have this in my mailbox from today.
What stuck in my throat, and indeed the throat of my fellow watcher, was the scene in 1943 in which Winston Churchill flew to North Africa to meet General Anders of the Polish home army, who had fought like a lion for the Allies but who now was worried that if he didn't get his troops back to Europe, the Russians might be in a position to take over Poland after the war and turn it into a communist satellite. "Don't worry", Churchill assured the general, affably. "We came into the war because of Poland. We will not abandon you and Poland will be happy."
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Happy? Well, not exactly. In fact, Poland settled down to several decades of sometimes brutal, always dreary, Russian misrule, after the British did indeed abandon, ie betray, Poland to Stalin. Or, at any rate, did no more than squeak when the brutal German occupation was replaced by an almost-as-brutal Soviet one.
But the film then interviewed aged survivors of the Warsaw uprising who, having endured these appalling acts of Nazi retribution for the uprising, were - months later - beaten, raped or shot dead by the incoming Russians, who wanted to rid their "new Poland" of any likely dissident elements.
as for this take on Britain,
balkaninsight.com/en/main/blogs/15290/
